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" Sedley* has that prevailing gentle art Which can with a resistless charm impart The loosest wishes to the chastest heart ; liaise such a conflict, kindle such a fire, Between declining virtue and desire, That the poor vanquish'd maid dissolves away In... "
The British Essayists;: Spectator - Page 84
by Alexander Chalmers - 1808
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The Spectator ...

English essays - 1803 - 420 pages
...modesty and its interests in the world, that the transgression of it always creates offence ; and the very purposes of wantonness are defeated by a carriage...otherwise desirable. It was said of a wit of the last age1, ' Sedley has that prevailing gentle art Which can with a resistless charm impart The loosest...
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Select British Classics, Volume 16

English literature - 1803 - 376 pages
...modesty and its interests in the world, that the transgression of it always creates offence ; and the very purposes of wantonness are defeated by a carriage...would be otherwise desirable. It was said of a wit in the last age, Sidney has that prevailing gentle art Which can with a resistless charm impart The...
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The Spectator ...

1803 - 436 pages
...otherwise desirable. It was said of a wit of the last age1, ' Sedley has that prevailing gentle art J Which can with a resistless charm impart > The loosest wishes to the chastest heart; j . Raise such a conflict, kindle such a fire, Between declining virtue and desire, That the poor vanquish'd...
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The school of action; a comedy

Sir Richard Steele - 1809 - 410 pages
...said of Sir Charles, who breathed his last in this room, " Sedley has that prevailing gentle art, -j Which can with a resistless charm impart > The loosest wishes to the chastest heart ; J * It is to be feared there were too many pecuniary reasons for this temporary solitude. f About...
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The Spectator, Volume 7

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 362 pages
...world, that the transgression of it always creates offence ; and the very purposes of wantonness arc defeated by a carriage which has in it so much boldness,...said of a wit of the last age, ' Sedley* has that pi'evailing gentle art Which can with a resistless charm impart The loosest wishes to the chastest...
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An Historical, Topographical and Descriptive Account of the Weald of Kent

Thomas Downes Wilmot Dearn - Kent (England) - 1814 - 380 pages
...Earl of Rochester,! .i.-..: . >'..• ... 'i- . ...... " Sedley has that prevailing, gentle art That can with a resistless Charm impart . .;.... The loosest wishes to the chastest heart ;" ! ', .'....". * Hasted. ' - . . t Vide p. 93. note. Peter Husey, archdeacon of Northampton, by his...
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The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson, Volume 36

British essayists - 1819 - 340 pages
...deference, played with Honoria's fan, and repeated, Sedley has that prevailing gentle* art, 1 That can with a resistless charm impart > The loosest wishes to the chastest heart : J Raise such a conflict, kindle such a fire, ' Between declining virtue and desire, Till the poor...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 322 pages
...modesty and its interests in the world, that the transgression of it always creates offence; and the very purposes of wantonness are defeated by a carriage...otherwise desirable. It was said of a wit of the last age, Se<l ley * has that prevailing gentle art \Vlnch can with a resistless charm impart The loosest wishes...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 438 pages
...deference, played with Honoria's fan, and repeated, Sedley has that prevailing gentle heart, J That can with a resistless charm impart > The loosest wishes to the chastest heart : j Raise such a conflict, kindle such a fire, Between declining virtue and desire, Till the poor vanquish'd...
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The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index ..., Volume 8

Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 268 pages
...modesty and its interests in the world, that the transgression of it always creates offence; and the very purposes of wantonness are defeated by a carriage...desirable. It was said of a wit of the last age; Sedley (a) has that prevailing gentle art, Which can with a resistless charm impart The loosest wishes to...
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