The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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... see how he can walk on foot at his ease , when his wig goes in a chair . How many of us can call to mind the day , when it was a mark of good - breeding to cram a poor furfeited guest to the throat , and the most social hours of life ...
... see how he can walk on foot at his ease , when his wig goes in a chair . How many of us can call to mind the day , when it was a mark of good - breeding to cram a poor furfeited guest to the throat , and the most social hours of life ...
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... see the rock and broken ground , which " will be a bold and striking contrast to the or- " namented grounds about it - I am surprised , " added he , " you can fee any beauty in those " paltry huts . " - Before I could make reply , an ...
... see the rock and broken ground , which " will be a bold and striking contrast to the or- " namented grounds about it - I am surprised , " added he , " you can fee any beauty in those " paltry huts . " - Before I could make reply , an ...
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... See what plump haunches ! -Hath the nymph " perchance " A high round paunch , stuft like our comic drolls , " And strutting out foreright ? a good ftout bufk " Pushing athwart shall force th ' intruder back . " Hath she red brows ? a ...
... See what plump haunches ! -Hath the nymph " perchance " A high round paunch , stuft like our comic drolls , " And strutting out foreright ? a good ftout bufk " Pushing athwart shall force th ' intruder back . " Hath she red brows ? a ...
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... seeing that old age , which recommends the " latter , mars the former ? Old wine indeed " exhilarates , but old men are miferable to them- " selves and others . " Antiphanes the comic poet has struck upon the fame comparison but with a ...
... seeing that old age , which recommends the " latter , mars the former ? Old wine indeed " exhilarates , but old men are miferable to them- " selves and others . " Antiphanes the comic poet has struck upon the fame comparison but with a ...
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... " to get at her ; and why then may not old age , " seeing fuch difcretion belongs to it , be allowed " it's pretenfions to happiness ? " 9 A fervant A fervant thus rallies his master upon a spe- eies 82 THE OBSERVER . N ° 102.
... " to get at her ; and why then may not old age , " seeing fuch difcretion belongs to it , be allowed " it's pretenfions to happiness ? " 9 A fervant A fervant thus rallies his master upon a spe- eies 82 THE OBSERVER . N ° 102.
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