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" How art thou, oh my soul, stolen from thyself ! how is all thy attention broken ! my books are blank paper, and my friends intruders. I have no hope of quiet but from your pity. To grant it, would make more for your triumph. To give pain is the tyranny,... "
A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine - Page 128
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The Spectator, Volume 2

1729 - 342 pages
...from thy felf ! How is all thy Attention broken! My Books are blank Papers, and my Friends Intruders. I have no hope of Quiet but from your Pity. To grant...make Happy the true Empire of Beauty. If you would confider aright, you'd find an agreeable Change in difmiffingthe Attendance of a Slave, to receive...
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Harrison's British Classicks, Volume 4

1786 - 694 pages
...ftolen fromthyfelf! How is all thy attemipn broken! My books are blank paper, and my friends intruders. I have no hope of quiet but from your pity -, to grant jt, would make more for your triumph. To give pain is the tyranny, to make happy^the true empire of...
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Letters to and from his friends and patrons

Sir Richard Steele - Authors, English - 1787 - 560 pages
...from thyfelf ! how is all thy attention broken ! My books are blank paper, and my friends intruders. I have no hope of quiet but from your pity : to grant...make happy, the true empire, of beauty. If you would confider aright, you * This date is in part cut out, and fupplied with " Aug. 9, " 1671." Over "Madam,"...
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The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany, Volume 5

Books and bookselling - 1787 - 512 pages
...paper, and my friends intruder?. I have no hope of qniet but from your pity : to grant it, would mak* more for your triumph. To give pain, is the tyranny...; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. If you woukl confider aright, you •would find an agreeable change, in difmim'ng the attendance of a flave,...
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Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 57, Part 1

Early English newspapers - 1787 - 618 pages
...books are blank paper, and my friends intruders.' I have no hope of quiet but from your pity : to gtant it, would make more fo'r your triumph. To. give pain, is the tyranny, to. Wake happv, the true empire, of beauty. If you would confider aright, you would find an 'agreeable...
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The Spectator, with Illustrative Notes: To which are Prefixed, the ..., Volume 3

1794 - 450 pages
...from thyself! how is all my attention broken \ my books are blank paper, and my friends intruders. I have no hope of quiet but from your pity. To grant...attendance of a slave, to receive the complaisance of a companion. I bear the former in hopes of the latter condition. As I live in chains without murmuring...
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The Spectator ...

1803 - 472 pages
...from thyself ! how is all thy attention broken ! my books are blank paper, and my friends intruders. I have no hope of quiet but from your pity. To grant...attendance of a slave, to receive the complaisance of a companion. I bear the former in hopes of the latter condition. As I live in chains without murmuring...
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The British Essayists;: Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 322 pages
...from thyself! how is all my attention broken ! my books are blank ]>aper, and my friends intruders. I have no hope of quiet but from your pity. To grant...your triumph. To give pain is the tyranny, to make huppy the true empire of beauty. If you would consider aright, you would find an agreeable change in...
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The school of action; a comedy

Sir Richard Steele - 1809 - 410 pages
...from thyself! how is all thy attention broken ! My books are blank paper, and my friends intruders. I have no hope of quiet but from your pity : to grant...attendance of a slave, to receive the complaisance of a companion. I bear the former, in hopes of the latter condition. As I live in chains without murmuring...
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The Spectator, Volume 3

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1809 - 312 pages
...attention broken ! My books are blank paper, and my friends intruders. I have no hope of quiet hut from your pity. To grant it, would make more for your triumph : to give pain is the tyranny, No. U2. THE SPECTATOR. tl to make happy the true empire of beauty. If you would consider aright, you...
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