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She loved solitude , probably , because her own haughty and overbearing spirit had paralysed the pure pleasures of social intercourse for which her coarse and rigid appetite was not fitted , either by nature or habit .
She loved solitude , probably , because her own haughty and overbearing spirit had paralysed the pure pleasures of social intercourse for which her coarse and rigid appetite was not fitted , either by nature or habit .
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... decision and irresoluteness , which formed the features of the King's life , are the natural food of powerful invention . ... he tells us that he consulted only his own feelings for his sentiments , and Nature for his scenery .
... decision and irresoluteness , which formed the features of the King's life , are the natural food of powerful invention . ... he tells us that he consulted only his own feelings for his sentiments , and Nature for his scenery .
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Nature had , for once , written the mind in his face - a work of ingenuousness , which nature in her goodness rarely permits herself to do ; for , were it her constant practice , how would poor rogues ever become rich ones ?
Nature had , for once , written the mind in his face - a work of ingenuousness , which nature in her goodness rarely permits herself to do ; for , were it her constant practice , how would poor rogues ever become rich ones ?
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The Gurney Papers Nos XIII XIV XV XVI By the Author | 264 |
Little Pedlington in a Pucker By the Author of Paul Pry | 321 |
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| Title | New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 52 |
| Contributors | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth |
| Publisher | E. W. Allen, 1838 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 24 Sep 2007 |
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