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Let others , my lovely charmer , talk of a blind being that disposes their hearts , I
contemn their low images of love . I have not a thought which relates to you , that I
cannot with confidence beseech the All - seeing Power to bless me in . May he ...
Let others , my lovely charmer , talk of a blind being that disposes their hearts , I
contemn their low images of love . I have not a thought which relates to you , that I
cannot with confidence beseech the All - seeing Power to bless me in . May he ...
Сторінка 67
If I had a mind to it , I could not at present talk of any thing else ; therefore I shall
translate a passage in the one , and transcribe a paragraph out of the other , for
the speculation of this day . Cicero tells us * , that Plato reports Socrates , upon ...
If I had a mind to it , I could not at present talk of any thing else ; therefore I shall
translate a passage in the one , and transcribe a paragraph out of the other , for
the speculation of this day . Cicero tells us * , that Plato reports Socrates , upon ...
Сторінка 77
I am sure I could name you more than one person whom no man living ever
heard talk upon any subject in nature , or ever saw in his whole life with a book in
his hand , that , I know not how , can whisper something like knowledge of what
has ...
I am sure I could name you more than one person whom no man living ever
heard talk upon any subject in nature , or ever saw in his whole life with a book in
his hand , that , I know not how , can whisper something like knowledge of what
has ...
Сторінка 107
They are all , to a woman , urgent with me to lay before the world the unhappy
circumstances they are under , from the unreasonable liberty which is taken in
their presence , to talk on what subject it is thought fit by every coxcomb who
wants ...
They are all , to a woman , urgent with me to lay before the world the unhappy
circumstances they are under , from the unreasonable liberty which is taken in
their presence , to talk on what subject it is thought fit by every coxcomb who
wants ...
Сторінка 279
I have heard them often talk of Augustus Cæsar , who had intrigues with the
wives of senators , not out of wantonness but stratagem . It is a thousand pities
you should be so severely virtuous as I fear you are ; otherwise after one visit w
or two ...
I have heard them often talk of Augustus Cæsar , who had intrigues with the
wives of senators , not out of wantonness but stratagem . It is a thousand pities
you should be so severely virtuous as I fear you are ; otherwise after one visit w
or two ...
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