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Page 27
... pieces were published , Prior would appear to be as good a profe - writer as a poet . It feems to be growing a little fashion- able to decry his great merits as a poet . They who do this feem not fufficiently to have attended to his ...
... pieces were published , Prior would appear to be as good a profe - writer as a poet . It feems to be growing a little fashion- able to decry his great merits as a poet . They who do this feem not fufficiently to have attended to his ...
Page 84
... piece of Antiquity at the great ( though indeed inadequate ) expence of all the " Plate of our family , how happily I carried it off , " and how triumphantly I tranfported it hither to 88 the inexpreffible grief of all Germany . Happy ...
... piece of Antiquity at the great ( though indeed inadequate ) expence of all the " Plate of our family , how happily I carried it off , " and how triumphantly I tranfported it hither to 88 the inexpreffible grief of all Germany . Happy ...
Page 87
... piece of beef , and as fhe ftretched her hand towards it , the old gentleman drew it away , and spoke to this effect : Had'ft thou read the Ancients , O Nurse , " thou would't prefer the welfare of the Infant which thou nourisheft , to ...
... piece of beef , and as fhe ftretched her hand towards it , the old gentleman drew it away , and spoke to this effect : Had'ft thou read the Ancients , O Nurse , " thou would't prefer the welfare of the Infant which thou nourisheft , to ...
Page 140
... piece of canvas , which hung forth to the view of the paffing Citizens . Upon it was pourtrayed by fome accurate pencil , the Lybian Leopard , more fierce than in his native Defart ; the mighty Lion , who boasted thrice the bulk of the ...
... piece of canvas , which hung forth to the view of the paffing Citizens . Upon it was pourtrayed by fome accurate pencil , the Lybian Leopard , more fierce than in his native Defart ; the mighty Lion , who boasted thrice the bulk of the ...
Page 149
... piece she could defign for none but a Philo- fopher . Cease then to display those beauties to the profane vulgar , which were created to crown the defires of your paffionate admirer , MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS . " 99 The Dwarf entered as he ...
... piece she could defign for none but a Philo- fopher . Cease then to display those beauties to the profane vulgar , which were created to crown the defires of your paffionate admirer , MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS . " 99 The Dwarf entered as he ...
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