The Spectator: With Notes and a General Index, Volumes 1-2J.J. Woodward, 1836 |
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... imagination , which they are apt to contract when they are young , and are not able to shake off when they are in years . I have known a soldier that has entered a breach , affrighted at his own shadow , and look pale upon a little ...
... imagination , which they are apt to contract when they are young , and are not able to shake off when they are in years . I have known a soldier that has entered a breach , affrighted at his own shadow , and look pale upon a little ...
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... imagination on the stretch to find out something uncom- mon , and what they call bright , to enter- tain her , while she writhed herself into as many different postures to engage him . When she laughed , her lips were to sever at a ...
... imagination on the stretch to find out something uncom- mon , and what they call bright , to enter- tain her , while she writhed herself into as many different postures to engage him . When she laughed , her lips were to sever at a ...
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... imagination , what is to easily know I mean that regular but easy pass between her and this husband , that motion which gives our persons so irresisti- she is every moment told of , and for whom ble a grace as if we moved to music , and ...
... imagination , what is to easily know I mean that regular but easy pass between her and this husband , that motion which gives our persons so irresisti- she is every moment told of , and for whom ble a grace as if we moved to music , and ...
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... imagination nor her health would ever give her to know that she is turned of twenty ; but that in the midst of these pretty softnesses , and airs of delicacy and attraction , she has a tall daughter within a fortnight of fifteen , who ...
... imagination nor her health would ever give her to know that she is turned of twenty ; but that in the midst of these pretty softnesses , and airs of delicacy and attraction , she has a tall daughter within a fortnight of fifteen , who ...
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... imagination that was apt to startle might | easily have construed into a black horse without a head : and I dare say the poor footman lost his wits upon some such tri- vial occasion . My friend , Sir Roger , has often told me with a ...
... imagination that was apt to startle might | easily have construed into a black horse without a head : and I dare say the poor footman lost his wits upon some such tri- vial occasion . My friend , Sir Roger , has often told me with a ...
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