The Rambler, Volume 5Payne, 1752 |
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... observed . The awful ftilnefs of attention , with which the mind is overspread at the first view of an unexpected effect or uncommon performance , ceafes when we have leisure to difentangle complications and investigate caufes . Wonder ...
... observed . The awful ftilnefs of attention , with which the mind is overspread at the first view of an unexpected effect or uncommon performance , ceafes when we have leisure to difentangle complications and investigate caufes . Wonder ...
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... observation ; but in a fhort time I could not forbear furveying it with particular notice ; for the length of the wall which enclosed the gardens , the difpofi- tion of the fhades that waved over it , and the canals , of which I could ...
... observation ; but in a fhort time I could not forbear furveying it with particular notice ; for the length of the wall which enclosed the gardens , the difpofi- tion of the fhades that waved over it , and the canals , of which I could ...
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... observed , that the unvaried complaisance which ladies have the right of exacting , keeps them generally unfkilled in human nature ; Profperity will always enjoy the female prerogatives , and therefore must be always in danger of female ...
... observed , that the unvaried complaisance which ladies have the right of exacting , keeps them generally unfkilled in human nature ; Profperity will always enjoy the female prerogatives , and therefore must be always in danger of female ...
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... observed , till by degrees a certain number of inconteftable or unfuf- pected propofitions are established , and at laft concatenated into arguments , or com- pacted into fyftems . " AT At length wearinefs fucceeds to labour , and the ...
... observed , till by degrees a certain number of inconteftable or unfuf- pected propofitions are established , and at laft concatenated into arguments , or com- pacted into fyftems . " AT At length wearinefs fucceeds to labour , and the ...
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... observations with which Walsh has in- troduced his pages of inanity are fuch as give him little claim to the rank affigned him by Dryden among the criticks . Letters , fays he , are intended as refemblances of converfation , and the ...
... observations with which Walsh has in- troduced his pages of inanity are fuch as give him little claim to the rank affigned him by Dryden among the criticks . Letters , fays he , are intended as refemblances of converfation , and the ...
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