The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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... stands without a rival ; her painters , sculptors and engravers are now the only schools , properly fo called , in Europe ; Rome will bear witness that the English artists are as fuperior in talents as they are in numbers to those of ...
... stands without a rival ; her painters , sculptors and engravers are now the only schools , properly fo called , in Europe ; Rome will bear witness that the English artists are as fuperior in talents as they are in numbers to those of ...
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... stand On the fierce confines of each rival state , Jealous to guard , or eager to invade ; d Between their hoftile camps a field of blood , Behind them desolation void and drear , Where at the summons of the surly drum The rifing and ...
... stand On the fierce confines of each rival state , Jealous to guard , or eager to invade ; d Between their hoftile camps a field of blood , Behind them desolation void and drear , Where at the summons of the surly drum The rifing and ...
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... stands , Where dwells the master of this rich domain ; Plain and of chafte proportion the device , Not libell'd and bedawb'd with tawdry frize Or lac'd pilafter , patcht with refuse scraps , Like that fraternal pile on Thames's bank ...
... stands , Where dwells the master of this rich domain ; Plain and of chafte proportion the device , Not libell'd and bedawb'd with tawdry frize Or lac'd pilafter , patcht with refuse scraps , Like that fraternal pile on Thames's bank ...
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... stand their own strength so well , and scrutinize into the weakneffes of their fuperiors so acutely , that they are neither to be deceived nor intimi- dated ; and on that account , ( as the proud man's character is compounded of the ...
... stand their own strength so well , and scrutinize into the weakneffes of their fuperiors so acutely , that they are neither to be deceived nor intimi- dated ; and on that account , ( as the proud man's character is compounded of the ...
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... stand out upon terms : If Nebuchadnezzar had not had all people , nations and languages at his command , he might have called till he was hoarse before any one would have come to worship his image in the plain of Dura ; let the proud ...
... stand out upon terms : If Nebuchadnezzar had not had all people , nations and languages at his command , he might have called till he was hoarse before any one would have come to worship his image in the plain of Dura ; let the proud ...
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