The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, DublinC. Bathurst, J. Rivington, W. Strahan, B. Collins, J. Hinton, J. Dodsley, L. Davis and C. Reymers, R. Baldwin, and W. Bowyer, 1766 |
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Her stature was tall , her hair and eyes black , her complexion fair and delicate , her features regular , soft , and animated , her shape easy and elegant , and her manner feminine , polite , and graceful : There was natural music in ...
Her stature was tall , her hair and eyes black , her complexion fair and delicate , her features regular , soft , and animated , her shape easy and elegant , and her manner feminine , polite , and graceful : There was natural music in ...
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In October his left eye fwelled to the size of an egg , and several large boils broke out on his arms and body ; the extreme pain ... it was with difficulty that five persons restrained him by mere force from pulling out his own eyes .
In October his left eye fwelled to the size of an egg , and several large boils broke out on his arms and body ; the extreme pain ... it was with difficulty that five persons restrained him by mere force from pulling out his own eyes .
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... for our corporation of poets ; from whom I am preparing a petition to your Highness , to be subscribed with the names of one hundred thirty - six of the first rate ; but whose immortal productions are never likely to reach your eyes ...
... for our corporation of poets ; from whom I am preparing a petition to your Highness , to be subscribed with the names of one hundred thirty - six of the first rate ; but whose immortal productions are never likely to reach your eyes ...
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Farther , I avow to your Highness , that with these eyes I have beheld the person of Wils liam Wotton , B. D. who has written a good sizeable vojume against a friend of your governor + ( from whom , alas , he mult therefore look for ...
Farther , I avow to your Highness , that with these eyes I have beheld the person of Wils liam Wotton , B. D. who has written a good sizeable vojume against a friend of your governor + ( from whom , alas , he mult therefore look for ...
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Sary , it has fared with these vehicles , after the usual fate of coaches over - finely painted and gilt , that the tranfitory gazers have so dazled their eyes , and filled their imaginations with the outward lustre , as neither to ...
Sary , it has fared with these vehicles , after the usual fate of coaches over - finely painted and gilt , that the tranfitory gazers have so dazled their eyes , and filled their imaginations with the outward lustre , as neither to ...
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