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Page 64
... soon , that his lord- ship was a greater dunce than myself ; and from that very moment flattery was at an end . I now rather aimed at setting him right , than at receiving his absurdities with submission : to flatter those we do not ...
... soon , that his lord- ship was a greater dunce than myself ; and from that very moment flattery was at an end . I now rather aimed at setting him right , than at receiving his absurdities with submission : to flatter those we do not ...
Page 164
... soon began to perceive that the country was not my element ; that shades , and flowers , and lawns , and waters had very soon exhausted all their power of pleasing , and that I had not in myself any fund of satisfaction with which I ...
... soon began to perceive that the country was not my element ; that shades , and flowers , and lawns , and waters had very soon exhausted all their power of pleasing , and that I had not in myself any fund of satisfaction with which I ...
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... soon after enabled to enter upon the first appearance to me of Mrs. Siddons in Isabella . Comparison and retrospection soon yielded to the present attraction of the scene ; and the theatre became to me , upon a new stock , the most ...
... soon after enabled to enter upon the first appearance to me of Mrs. Siddons in Isabella . Comparison and retrospection soon yielded to the present attraction of the scene ; and the theatre became to me , upon a new stock , the most ...
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