The Spectator, Volume 9William Durell and Company, 1810 - English literature |
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... hands of him who treated me ill , he should be sensible when he did so ; his conscience should be of my side whatever be- came of his inclination . I do not know but it is the insipid choice which has been made by those who have the ...
... hands of him who treated me ill , he should be sensible when he did so ; his conscience should be of my side whatever be- came of his inclination . I do not know but it is the insipid choice which has been made by those who have the ...
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... hand in the deaths of the several thousands who have been slain in the late war , being of opinion that all such ... hands , in several poems which we may now suppose are upon the anvil , I do also pro- hibit his appearance , unless it ...
... hand in the deaths of the several thousands who have been slain in the late war , being of opinion that all such ... hands , in several poems which we may now suppose are upon the anvil , I do also pro- hibit his appearance , unless it ...
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... hands , my book of speculations would have been little else but a book of visions . Some of my correspondents have indeed been so very modest , as to offer at an excuse for their not being in a capacity to dream better . I have by me ...
... hands , my book of speculations would have been little else but a book of visions . Some of my correspondents have indeed been so very modest , as to offer at an excuse for their not being in a capacity to dream better . I have by me ...
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... hands . I shall add a dream to these , which comes to me from Scotland , by one who declares himself of that country , and for all I know may be second - sight- ed . There is indeed something in it of the spirit of John Bunyan : but at ...
... hands . I shall add a dream to these , which comes to me from Scotland , by one who declares himself of that country , and for all I know may be second - sight- ed . There is indeed something in it of the spirit of John Bunyan : but at ...
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... hand , and so carried me away along with them . After I had followed them a considerable while , I perceived I had lost the black tower of light , at which I greatly won- dered ; but as I looked and gazed round about me , and saw ...
... hand , and so carried me away along with them . After I had followed them a considerable while , I perceived I had lost the black tower of light , at which I greatly won- dered ; but as I looked and gazed round about me , and saw ...
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