The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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... fathers of the chace , Which of your hardy , bold , adventurous band Will pine and murmur for Italian skies ? Hark ! from the covert - fide your game is view'd ! Music , which none but British dryads hear , Shouts , which no foreign ...
... fathers of the chace , Which of your hardy , bold , adventurous band Will pine and murmur for Italian skies ? Hark ! from the covert - fide your game is view'd ! Music , which none but British dryads hear , Shouts , which no foreign ...
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... father Thames Checks his imperial current , and beholds His wealthy navigation in arrest , Yet soon , like Perseus on his winged steed , Forth from the horns of the celestial Ram Spring , his deliverer , comes - down , down at once The ...
... father Thames Checks his imperial current , and beholds His wealthy navigation in arrest , Yet soon , like Perseus on his winged steed , Forth from the horns of the celestial Ram Spring , his deliverer , comes - down , down at once The ...
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... have seen none other of the human species but her father , befides certain imaginary beings , whom Prometheus had either created by his stolen stolen fire , or whom he employed in the capacity 60 THE OBSERVER . N ° 99 .
... have seen none other of the human species but her father , befides certain imaginary beings , whom Prometheus had either created by his stolen stolen fire , or whom he employed in the capacity 60 THE OBSERVER . N ° 99 .
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... father to allay the storm , and save the finking mariners from destruction . In the back ground of the picture is a cavern , and at the entrance of it a mishapen favage being , whose evil nature is depicted in the deformity of his ...
... father to allay the storm , and save the finking mariners from destruction . In the back ground of the picture is a cavern , and at the entrance of it a mishapen favage being , whose evil nature is depicted in the deformity of his ...
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... father's fide to Menander , and was the first to discover and encourage the early genius of that admired writer . Alexis lived to a great age , and we have the authority of Plutarch for faying that the vigour of his faculties was ...
... father's fide to Menander , and was the first to discover and encourage the early genius of that admired writer . Alexis lived to a great age , and we have the authority of Plutarch for faying that the vigour of his faculties was ...
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