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... character is meant to re- prefent the duke of Dorfet . This work feems to have given Addison a model for his Dialogues upon Medals . 3 Secret Love , or the Maiden Queen ( 1668 ) , is a tragi - comedy . In the preface he dif- cuffes a ...
... character is meant to re- prefent the duke of Dorfet . This work feems to have given Addison a model for his Dialogues upon Medals . 3 Secret Love , or the Maiden Queen ( 1668 ) , is a tragi - comedy . In the preface he dif- cuffes a ...
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... character : " He's " an animal of a moft deplored understand- ing , without converfation . His being is " in a twilight of fenfe , and fome glimmer- ing of thought , which he can never " fashion into wit or English . His ftyle is ...
... character : " He's " an animal of a moft deplored understand- ing , without converfation . His being is " in a twilight of fenfe , and fome glimmer- ing of thought , which he can never " fashion into wit or English . His ftyle is ...
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... characters Of fieges , ruins , murders , blood and wars . We'll blot out all thofe hideous draughts , and write Pure and white forms ; then with a radiant light Their breafts encircle , till their paffions be Gentle as nature in its ...
... characters Of fieges , ruins , murders , blood and wars . We'll blot out all thofe hideous draughts , and write Pure and white forms ; then with a radiant light Their breafts encircle , till their paffions be Gentle as nature in its ...
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... characters , white forms , and " radiant lights , defigned not only to please " appetite , and indulge luxury ; but it is " also phyfical , being an approved medicine " to purge choler : for it is propounded by " Morena , as a receipt ...
... characters , white forms , and " radiant lights , defigned not only to please " appetite , and indulge luxury ; but it is " also phyfical , being an approved medicine " to purge choler : for it is propounded by " Morena , as a receipt ...
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... characters to their forms ! Oh ! rare fport for Jack ! " Never was place fo full of game as these " breafts ! You cannot ftir , but flush a sphere , " start a character , or unkennel an orb ! " Settle's is faid to have been the first ...
... characters to their forms ! Oh ! rare fport for Jack ! " Never was place fo full of game as these " breafts ! You cannot ftir , but flush a sphere , " start a character , or unkennel an orb ! " Settle's is faid to have been the first ...
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