The British Essayists: The AdventurerLittle, Brown, 1866 - English essays |
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... attempted . 66 " Yet , though I would willingly pay to Theocritus the honour which is always due to an original au- thor , I am far from intending to depreciate Virgil ; of whom Horace justly declares , that the rural muses have ...
... attempted . 66 " Yet , though I would willingly pay to Theocritus the honour which is always due to an original au- thor , I am far from intending to depreciate Virgil ; of whom Horace justly declares , that the rural muses have ...
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... attempt to increase the enjoy- ment which they were intended to supply ; he will , therefore , either doze away life in a kind of listless indolence , which he despairs to exalt into felicity , or he will imagine that the good he wants ...
... attempt to increase the enjoy- ment which they were intended to supply ; he will , therefore , either doze away life in a kind of listless indolence , which he despairs to exalt into felicity , or he will imagine that the good he wants ...
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... attempt to double the re- mainder of his prize at play , that he might live in a palace and keep an equipage ; but in the execu- tion of this project , he lost the whole produce of his lottery ticket , except five hundred pounds in bank ...
... attempt to double the re- mainder of his prize at play , that he might live in a palace and keep an equipage ; but in the execu- tion of this project , he lost the whole produce of his lottery ticket , except five hundred pounds in bank ...
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... attempt ; his character was unexceptionable , and his recommendation such as it was believed no other could counterbalance ; he , therefore , received the bounty of his patron with- out much emotion ; he regarded his success as an event ...
... attempt ; his character was unexceptionable , and his recommendation such as it was believed no other could counterbalance ; he , therefore , received the bounty of his patron with- out much emotion ; he regarded his success as an event ...
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... allusion to his own abominable attempt , ' above all , be sure to secure the daughter ; whose beauty , ' he tells them , ' is incomparable . ' The charms of Miranda could not be more exalted than by ex- NO . 97 . 41 ADVENTURER .
... allusion to his own abominable attempt , ' above all , be sure to secure the daughter ; whose beauty , ' he tells them , ' is incomparable . ' The charms of Miranda could not be more exalted than by ex- NO . 97 . 41 ADVENTURER .
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