The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 4Bohn, 1854 |
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... side is nothing but foaming billows and floating mountains , it is impossible to describe the agreeable horror that rises from such a pros- 1 The reader of taste feels the force of this well - chosen word . Mr. Pope had it in view ...
... side is nothing but foaming billows and floating mountains , it is impossible to describe the agreeable horror that rises from such a pros- 1 The reader of taste feels the force of this well - chosen word . Mr. Pope had it in view ...
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... side , and the inhabitants of it so straitened as to cry for quarter . The general refused any other terms than those granted to the above - mentioned town of Hens- berg , namely , that the married women might come out with what they ...
... side , and the inhabitants of it so straitened as to cry for quarter . The general refused any other terms than those granted to the above - mentioned town of Hens- berg , namely , that the married women might come out with what they ...
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... side , was a Scotch Highlander , and second - sighted . I have four fingers and two thumbs upon one hand , and was born on the longest night of the year . My Christian and surname begin and end with the same letters . I am lodged in ...
... side , was a Scotch Highlander , and second - sighted . I have four fingers and two thumbs upon one hand , and was born on the longest night of the year . My Christian and surname begin and end with the same letters . I am lodged in ...
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... side . There has been a long dispute for precedency between the tragic and heroic poets . Aristotle would have the latter yield the pas to the former , but Mr. Dryden and many others would never submit to this decision . Burlesque ...
... side . There has been a long dispute for precedency between the tragic and heroic poets . Aristotle would have the latter yield the pas to the former , but Mr. Dryden and many others would never submit to this decision . Burlesque ...
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... in what cases a woman may be allowed , with honour , to make use of a shoeing - horn , as also to declare whether a maid on this side five and twenty , or a widow who has not been three years in that state 62 ADDISON'S WORKS .
... in what cases a woman may be allowed , with honour , to make use of a shoeing - horn , as also to declare whether a maid on this side five and twenty , or a widow who has not been three years in that state 62 ADDISON'S WORKS .
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