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Page 16
... things. In vain, If none regard. Hcav'n wakes with all his eyes, Whom to behold but thee, nature's desire, In whose sight all things joy, with ravishment, Attracted by thy beauty still to gate I" Au injudicious poet would have made Adam ...
... things. In vain, If none regard. Hcav'n wakes with all his eyes, Whom to behold but thee, nature's desire, In whose sight all things joy, with ravishment, Attracted by thy beauty still to gate I" Au injudicious poet would have made Adam ...
Page 113
... things began to draw near, when the Lord of Nature thought lit as a Saviour aud Deliverer, to make his public entry into Jerusalem with more than the power and joy, but none of the ostentation and pomp, of a triumph; he came humble ...
... things began to draw near, when the Lord of Nature thought lit as a Saviour aud Deliverer, to make his public entry into Jerusalem with more than the power and joy, but none of the ostentation and pomp, of a triumph; he came humble ...
Page 119
... things with double terror. On the ground Outstretch'd he lay ; on the cold ground, and oft Curs'd hit creation ; death as oft accus'd Of tardy execution " The part of Eve in this book is no less passionate, and apt to sway the reader in ...
... things with double terror. On the ground Outstretch'd he lay ; on the cold ground, and oft Curs'd hit creation ; death as oft accus'd Of tardy execution " The part of Eve in this book is no less passionate, and apt to sway the reader in ...
Page 124
... things were pretty well drawing to a conclusion, her father happening to hear that I had formerly boarded with a surgeon, the old put forbad me his house, and within a fortnight after married his daughter to a fox-hunter in the 124 THE ...
... things were pretty well drawing to a conclusion, her father happening to hear that I had formerly boarded with a surgeon, the old put forbad me his house, and within a fortnight after married his daughter to a fox-hunter in the 124 THE ...
Page 125
... things to her, and in short made no doubt of her heart ; and, though my fortune wa3not equal to hers, I was in hopes that her fond father would not deny her the man she had fixed her affections upon. But as I went one day to the house ...
... things to her, and in short made no doubt of her heart ; and, though my fortune wa3not equal to hers, I was in hopes that her fond father would not deny her the man she had fixed her affections upon. But as I went one day to the house ...
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