 I might, was my heart disengaged, pass my time very pleasantly as there's a very agreeable young lady lives in the same house, (Colonel George Fairfax's wife's sister.) But as that's only adding fuel to fire, it makes me the more uneasy, for by often,...  Oliver Goldsmith - Page 21by Washington Irving - 1859Full view - About this book
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...and unavoidably in company with her revives my former passion for your Lowland beauty ; whereas, were I to live more retired from young women, I might in some measure alleviate my sorrow, by burying that chaste and troublesome passion in oblivion ; and I am very well assured, that... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1834 - 574 pages
...and unavoidably in company with her revives my former passion for your Lowland beauty ; whereas, were I to live more retired from young women, I might in some measure alleviate my sorrow, by burying that chaste and troublesome passion in oblivion ; and I am very well assured, that... | |
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...unavoidably in company with her revives my former passion for your Lowland beauty ; whereas, were I to lire more retired from young women, I might in some measure alleviate my sorrow, by burying that chaste and troublesome passion in oblivion; and I am very well assured, that... | |
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...unavoidably in company with her " revives my former passion for your Lowland " beauty ; whereas were I to live more retired " from young women I might in some measure " alleviate my sorrow by burying that chaste and " troublesome passion in oblivion ; and I am very " well assured... | |
 | 1839 - 648 pages
...and unavoidably in company with her revives my former passion for your Lowland beauty ; whereas, were I to live more retired from young women, I might in some measure alleviate my sorrow, by burying that chaste and troublesome passion in oblivion; and I am very well assured, that... | |
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...unavoidably in company with her revives my former passion for your Lowland beauty ; whereas, were I to lire more retired from young women, I might in some measure alleviate my sorrow, by burying that chaste and troublesome passion in oblivion ; and I am very well assured, that... | |
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...alleviate my sorrows, by burying that chaste and troublesome passion in the grave of oblivion," etc. Similar avowals he makes to another of his young correspondents,...styles, " Dear friend John ; " as also to a female confidant, styled, " Dear Sally," to whom he acknowledges that the company of the " very agreeable... | |
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...unavoidably in her company, with her revives my former passion for your Lowland beauty, whereas were I to live more retired from young women, I might in some measure alleviate my sorrow, and bury that chaste and troublesome passion in oblivion ; and 1 am very well assured this... | |
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...unavoidably in her company, with her revives my former I№sion for vour Lowland beauty, whereas were I to live more retired from young women, I might in some measure alleviate my sorrow, and bory that chaste and troublesome passion in oblivion ; and I am very well assured this... | |
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...unavoidably in company with her revives my ' former passion for your Lowland beauty ; whereas were I to live more retired from young women I might in ' some measure alleviate my sorrow by burying that chaste ' and troublesome passion in oblivion ; and I am very ' well assured... | |
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