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... equally wretched and offensive . The character of Tetrica 113 121 The dangers of imitation . The impropriety of imitating Spenser 75 The world never known but by a change of fortune . The history of Melissa 76 The arts by which bad men ...
... equally wretched and offensive . The character of Tetrica 113 121 The dangers of imitation . The impropriety of imitating Spenser 75 The world never known but by a change of fortune . The history of Melissa 76 The arts by which bad men ...
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... equally strange , or by means equally inadequate . When we pity him , we reflect on our own disappointments ; and when we laugh , our hearts inform us that he is not more ridiculous than ourselves , except that he tells what we have ...
... equally strange , or by means equally inadequate . When we pity him , we reflect on our own disappointments ; and when we laugh , our hearts inform us that he is not more ridiculous than ourselves , except that he tells what we have ...
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... equally beyond his sphere of activity ; and he amused himself with heroes and with traitors , deliverers and persecutors , as with beings of another species , whose actions were regulated upon motives of their own , and who had neither ...
... equally beyond his sphere of activity ; and he amused himself with heroes and with traitors , deliverers and persecutors , as with beings of another species , whose actions were regulated upon motives of their own , and who had neither ...
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... equally a friend to modesty and enter " LADY RACKET sends compliments to the prise ; and therefore shall think it an honour tc Rambler , and lets him know she shall have cards correspond with a young man who possesse . at her house ...
... equally a friend to modesty and enter " LADY RACKET sends compliments to the prise ; and therefore shall think it an honour tc Rambler , and lets him know she shall have cards correspond with a young man who possesse . at her house ...
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... equally successful in the other , yet as many please , by extemporary talk , though utterly unacquainted with the more accurate method , and more laboured beauties , which composition requires ; so it is very possible that men , wholly ...
... equally successful in the other , yet as many please , by extemporary talk , though utterly unacquainted with the more accurate method , and more laboured beauties , which composition requires ; so it is very possible that men , wholly ...
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