Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Volumen9Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1827 |
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... effect of a more refined taste , still it were but a melancholy truth , since it only shews how much the circle of our mental enjoyments must be every moment contract- ing . We cannot endure to read any but works of decided superiority ...
... effect of a more refined taste , still it were but a melancholy truth , since it only shews how much the circle of our mental enjoyments must be every moment contract- ing . We cannot endure to read any but works of decided superiority ...
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... effect of rendering my infant heart extremely sus- ceptible of tender impressions . My affections were now ardently fixed upon a very amiable young woman , even then grown up , and who afterwards became my aunt . On my seventh birth ...
... effect of rendering my infant heart extremely sus- ceptible of tender impressions . My affections were now ardently fixed upon a very amiable young woman , even then grown up , and who afterwards became my aunt . On my seventh birth ...
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... effects produced in children by the lassitude and want of employment they experience there . The siege of Jerusalem is not always at hand to relieve their languor , and the imagination being left wholly to its own devices , schemes have ...
... effects produced in children by the lassitude and want of employment they experience there . The siege of Jerusalem is not always at hand to relieve their languor , and the imagination being left wholly to its own devices , schemes have ...
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... effect . The flame that burned at first with so much ardour , wanting nourishment from vanity , was extinguished by de- grees , and after a while nothing remained of the meteor that had so transported my senses but the pleasing ...
... effect . The flame that burned at first with so much ardour , wanting nourishment from vanity , was extinguished by de- grees , and after a while nothing remained of the meteor that had so transported my senses but the pleasing ...
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... effect upon me was so powerful , that when the poor girl actually died , I felt the most poignant anguish of heart , exclusive of all considerations of sympathy for her lover . ; I , however , soon found a source of consolation not ...
... effect upon me was so powerful , that when the poor girl actually died , I felt the most poignant anguish of heart , exclusive of all considerations of sympathy for her lover . ; I , however , soon found a source of consolation not ...
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Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing ..., Volumen9 Vista completa - 1830 |
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