The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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... beauty of the country about it ; I recollected how much he used to be devoted to rural exercises , and I found him situated in the very spot most favorable to his beloved amuse- ments ; the foil was clean , the hills easy , and the ...
... beauty of the country about it ; I recollected how much he used to be devoted to rural exercises , and I found him situated in the very spot most favorable to his beloved amuse- ments ; the foil was clean , the hills easy , and the ...
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... Beauty is it's own Not the voluptuous region of the Nile , Not aromatic India's spicy breath , Nor evening breeze from Tagus , Rhone or Loire Can tinge the maiden cheek with bloom so fresh . Here too , if exercise and temperance call ...
... Beauty is it's own Not the voluptuous region of the Nile , Not aromatic India's spicy breath , Nor evening breeze from Tagus , Rhone or Loire Can tinge the maiden cheek with bloom so fresh . Here too , if exercise and temperance call ...
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... beauty fades upon the painter's eye ; Hang up thy pallet , Romney ! and convene The gay companions of thy social board ; Apelles ' self would throw his pencil by , And swear the skies conspir'd against his art . But what muit Europe's ...
... beauty fades upon the painter's eye ; Hang up thy pallet , Romney ! and convene The gay companions of thy social board ; Apelles ' self would throw his pencil by , And swear the skies conspir'd against his art . But what muit Europe's ...
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... beauty's genuine glow : I mark'd the conscious look of honest truth , That greets the paffenger with eye direct , Nor fears nor meditates surprize ; my heart Yearn'd at the fight and as they pass'd I cried- " Why was it not my fortune ...
... beauty's genuine glow : I mark'd the conscious look of honest truth , That greets the paffenger with eye direct , Nor fears nor meditates surprize ; my heart Yearn'd at the fight and as they pass'd I cried- " Why was it not my fortune ...
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... beauty in those " paltry huts . " - Before I could make reply , an old peasant had approached us , and humbly en- quired of Attalus , when he was to be diflodged from his cottage- " I have ordered the work- " men to take it down next ...
... beauty in those " paltry huts . " - Before I could make reply , an old peasant had approached us , and humbly en- quired of Attalus , when he was to be diflodged from his cottage- " I have ordered the work- " men to take it down next ...
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