The British Essayists: The TatlerLittle, Brown, 1866 - English essays |
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... fortune , which , by a certain natural corruption in its quality , seldom fails to infect other possessors with pride , seems in this case as if only providentially disposed to enlarge your humility . “ But I find , Sir , I am now got ...
... fortune , which , by a certain natural corruption in its quality , seldom fails to infect other possessors with pride , seems in this case as if only providentially disposed to enlarge your humility . “ But I find , Sir , I am now got ...
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... fortune was the same with that of the statuary , who fell in love with the image of his own making : and the unfortunate Æsculapius is become the patient of her whom he lately recovered . Long before this disaster , Æsculapius was far ...
... fortune was the same with that of the statuary , who fell in love with the image of his own making : and the unfortunate Æsculapius is become the patient of her whom he lately recovered . Long before this disaster , Æsculapius was far ...
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... fortune ; but rather , a thousand snares to entrap me in the dangers to which youth and innocence are exposed , in an age wherein honour and virtue are become mere words , and used only as they serve to betray those who understand them ...
... fortune ; but rather , a thousand snares to entrap me in the dangers to which youth and innocence are exposed , in an age wherein honour and virtue are become mere words , and used only as they serve to betray those who understand them ...
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... fortune : therefore he that brings his quality with him into conversation , should always pay the reckoning ; for he came to receive homage , and not to meet his friends- -But the din about my ears from the clamour of the people I was ...
... fortune : therefore he that brings his quality with him into conversation , should always pay the reckoning ; for he came to receive homage , and not to meet his friends- -But the din about my ears from the clamour of the people I was ...
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... fortune in being drowned on the thirtieth day of my human life , I told you of the disasters I should otherwise have met with before I arrived at the end of my stamen , which was sixty years . I may now add an observation to you , that ...
... fortune in being drowned on the thirtieth day of my human life , I told you of the disasters I should otherwise have met with before I arrived at the end of my stamen , which was sixty years . I may now add an observation to you , that ...
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acquaintance action Æneid Æsculapius Æsop agreeable APARTMENT appeared army AUGUST AUGUST 26 Bavius beauty behaviour called charms Cleora countenance dæmon dead Demosthenes desire discourse Duke Duumvir enemy ESQUIRE eyes fame farrago libelli favour following letter fortune gentleman give Greenhat happy heard heart hero honour humble servant humour ISAAC BICKERSTAFF JAMES'S COFFEE-HOUSE Julius Cæsar lady lately laugh learned live look lover mankind manner marriage merit mind mistress motley paper seizes nature neral never noble NOVEMBER 11 observed occasion OCTOBER OCTOBER 12 OCTOBER 31 Pacolet panegyric passion persons pleased pleasure present pretend prince proper Quicquid agunt homines racter reason received seemed sense SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER 16 speak Stentor Tatler tell thing thought tion told town unhappy virtue WHITE'S CHOCOLATE-HOUSE whole wife WILL'S COFFEE-HOUSE woman word writ write young