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Pagina 159
... prefent , that they may ftill keep him on the fame Level with themselves . The like Kind of Confideration often stirs up the Envy of fuch as were once his Superiors , who think it a Detraction from their Merit to see another get Ground ...
... prefent , that they may ftill keep him on the fame Level with themselves . The like Kind of Confideration often stirs up the Envy of fuch as were once his Superiors , who think it a Detraction from their Merit to see another get Ground ...
Pagina 176
... prefent . I dropped him a Curtfy , and gave him to understand that was his Audience of Leave . I am reckoned pretty , and have had very many Ad- · vances befides thefe ; but have been very averse to hear any of them , from my ...
... prefent . I dropped him a Curtfy , and gave him to understand that was his Audience of Leave . I am reckoned pretty , and have had very many Ad- · vances befides thefe ; but have been very averse to hear any of them , from my ...
Pagina 179
... prefent are fo well reconciled , that they dine with me almost every Day , and have borrowed confiderable Sums of me ; · which my Lady Mary very often twits me with , when fhe would fhew me how kind her Relations are to me . She had no ...
... prefent are fo well reconciled , that they dine with me almost every Day , and have borrowed confiderable Sums of me ; · which my Lady Mary very often twits me with , when fhe would fhew me how kind her Relations are to me . She had no ...
Pagina 182
... prefent at . On the other Side , • Tom Faddle and his pretty Spouse where ever they come are billing at fuch a Rate , as they think must do our Hearts good who behold ' em . Cannot Cannot you poffibly propofe a Mean between being Wafps ...
... prefent at . On the other Side , • Tom Faddle and his pretty Spouse where ever they come are billing at fuch a Rate , as they think must do our Hearts good who behold ' em . Cannot Cannot you poffibly propofe a Mean between being Wafps ...
Pagina 18
... prefent Thirst , as it excites fresh Defires , and fets the Soul on new Enterprizes . For how few ambiti- ous Men are there , who have got as much Fame as they defired , and whofe Thirft after it has not been as eager in the very Height ...
... prefent Thirst , as it excites fresh Defires , and fets the Soul on new Enterprizes . For how few ambiti- ous Men are there , who have got as much Fame as they defired , and whofe Thirft after it has not been as eager in the very Height ...
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Pagina 104 - I may also add, of that which he described, than to any imperfection in that divine poet.
Pagina 250 - Providence with respect to man. He has represented all the abstruse doctrines of predestination, freewill and grace, as also the great points of incarnation and redemption, (which naturally grow up in a poem that treats of the fall of man) with great energy of expression, and in a clearer and stronger light than I ever met with in any other writer.
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