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The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and ... - Page 230
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A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and ...

John Walker - 1801 - 424 pages
...e'yes, hung it on each side with curious organs of sthise, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade...sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light. Spectator, N° 98. Nothing is more pleasant to the fancy, than to enlarge itself by degrees, in its...
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The Spectator ...

1803 - 466 pages
...the eyes, hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade...her works ; and when we load it with such a pile of supernumfr. * An eminent French lawyer of the sixteenth century. rary ornaments, we destroy the symmetry...
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The Spectator ...

1803 - 472 pages
...the eyes, hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade...her works ; and when we load it with such a pile of supernumer * An eminent French Uiwyer of the sixteenth century. rary ornaments, we destroy the symmetry...
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1804 - 676 pages
...beauties in the most agreeable light. In short, she stems to have designed the head as the CUT pola to the most glorious of her works ; and when we load it with such a pile of Mtpernumerary ornaments, we destroy the symmetry of the human figure, and foolishly contrive Ui call...
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 pages
...folbw, and make songs on now, should be sent to knit, 01 sit down to'bobbins or ione.'jcr. Tjtltr. We destroy the symmetry of the human figure, and foolishly contrive to call off the ey« from great and real beauties, to childish gewgaw ribbands and ti,mh:t. Sfcdtier. BO'N в L ESS....
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The British Essayists;: Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 346 pages
...thc eyes, hung it on each side with curious organs of' sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade...supernumerary ornaments, we destroy the symmetry of the humau figure, and foolishly contrive to call oft' the eye from great and real beauties, to childish...
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Elements of Elocution: In which the Principles of Reading and Speaking are ...

John Walker - 1810 - 394 pages
...eyes ; hung it on each side with curious organs of sense ; given it airs and graces that cannot be described ; and surrounded it with such a flowing...sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light." . Spectator, No. 98. . Series of Serieses. Preliminary Observation. WHEN the members of a series, either...
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]; with notes, and a general index

Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...the eyes, hung it on each side with curious organ« of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade...light. In short, she seems to have designed the head .is the cupola to the most glorious of her works; and when we load it with such a pile of supernumerary...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - 1814 - 424 pages
...eyes : hung it on each side with curious organs of sense ; given it airs and graces that cannot be described.; and surrounded it with such a flowing...beauties in the most agreeable light ; in short, she seemed to have designed 'the head as the cupola to the most.glorious of her works : and when we load...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - 1820 - 422 pages
...hung it on each side with curious organs of sense; given it airs and graces that cannot bedescribed; and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair,...the cupola to the most glorious of her works: and »vhen we load it with such a pile of supernumerary ornaments ; we destroy the symetry of the human...
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