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" Mary's sufferings exceed, both in degree and in duration, those tragical distresses which fancy has feigned to excite sorrow and commiseration; and while we survey them, we are apt altogether to forget her frailties ; we think of her faults with less... "
The Young Lady's Book of Elegant Prose: Comprising Selections from the Works ... - Page 76
1836 - 320 pages
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The Scots Magazine, Volume 21

1759 - 742 pages
...tragical diftreflès which fancy has feigned to excite forrow and commifcration ; and while we furvey them, we are apt altogether to forget her frailties, we think of her faults with lefs indignation, and 'approve of our tears, as if they were (hed for a perfon who had attained much...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 20

Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1759 - 636 pages
...tragical diftrefles, which fancy has feigned to excite forrow and commiferation ; and while we furvey them, we are apt altogether to forget her frailties, we think of her faults with lefs indignation, and approve of our tears, as if they were flied for a perfon who had attained much...
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the monthly review

SEVERAL HANDS - 1759 - 636 pages
...tragical diftrefles, which fancy has feigned to excite furrow and commiferation ; and while we furvey them, we are apt altogether to forget her frailties, we think of her faults with lefs indignation, and approve of our tears, as if they were (hed fora perfon who had attained much...
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The history of Scotland, during the reigns of queen Mary and of ..., Volume 2

William Robertson - 1771 - 458 pages
...tragical diftrefles which fancy has feigned to excite forrow and commiferation: and while we furvey them, we are apt altogether to forget her frailties, we think of her faults with lefs indignation, and approve of our tears, as if they were fhed for a p.erfon who had attained much...
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An historical miscellany. The third edition

Historical miscellany - 1774 - 352 pages
...tragical dilbeffes which fancy has feigned to excite forrow and commiferation ; and while we furvey them, we are apt altogether to forget her frailties, we think of her faults with lefs indignation, and approve of our tears, as if they were flied for a perfon who had attained much...
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The History of Scotland During the Reigns of Queen Mary and of ..., Volume 2

William Robertson - 1794 - 620 pages
...tragical diftrefles which fancy has feigned to excite forrow and commiferation j and while we furvey them, we are apt altogether to forget her frailties, we think of her faults with lefs indignation, and approve of our tears, as if they were med for a perfon who had attained much...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose ..., Volume 2

1797 - 522 pages
...tragical diftrefles whkh fancy has feigned to excite forrow and commiferation ; and while we furvcy them, we are apt altogether to forget her frailties, we think of her faults with tefs indignation, and approve of our tears, as if they were med for a perfon who had attained much...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ...

Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - 516 pages
...tragical diftrefl'es which fancy has feigned to excite forrow and commiferation ; and while we furvey them, we are apt altogether to forget her frailties, we think of her faults with lefs indignation, and approve of our tears, as if they were fhed for a perlón who had attained much...
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Biographia Scotica: Or Scottish Biographical Dictionary; Containing a Short ...

John Stark - 1805 - 488 pages
...betrayed her both into, errors and into crimes. Mary's sufferings, however, exceed, both in degree and in duration, those tragical distresses which fancy...person who had attained much nearer to pure virtue. No man, says Brantome, ever beheld her person without admiration and love, or will read her history...
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Biographia Scotica; or, Scottish biographical dictionary

John Stark (of Edinburgh.) - 1805 - 452 pages
...both into errors and into crimes. Mary's sufferings, however, exceed, both in degree and induration, those tragical distresses which fancy has feigned...person who had attained much nearer to pure virtue. No man, says Brantome, ever beheld her person without admiration and love, or will read her history...
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