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Politics of Author:
"Whig"
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Date: 1768
"In saying this, I was making not so much La Fleur's eloge, as my own, having been in love with one princess or another almost all my life, and I hope I shall go on so, till I die, being firmly persuaded, that if ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another...
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Date: 1768
"The fire caught--and the whole city, like the heart of one man, open'd itself to Love."
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Date: 1768
"No doubt the ocean fills the mind with vast ideas."
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Date: 1768
"With reason, said I; for if it is a good one, 'tis pity it should be stolen: 'tis a little treasure to thee, and gives a better air to your face, than if it was dress'd out with pearls."
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Date: 1768
"I had left London with so much precipitation, that it never enter'd my mind that we were at war with France; and had reach'd Dover, and look'd through my glass at the hills beyond Boulogne, before the idea presented itself; and with this in its train, that there was no getting there without a pa...
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Date: 1768
"The mind sits terrified at the objects she has magnified herself and blackened; reduce them to their proper size and hue she overlooks them."
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Date: 1768
"I vow, I never had my affections more tenderly awakened; or do I remember an incident in my life, where the dissipated spirits, to which my reason had been a bubble, were so suddenly call'd home."
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Date: 1768
"I beheld his body half wasted away with long expectation and confinement, and felt what kind of sickness of the heart it was which arises from hope deferr'd."
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Date: 1768
"I could not sustain the picture of confinement which my fancy had drawn."
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Date: 1768
"I could not help looking for some time at him as I sat in the remise--the more I look'd at him, his croix, and his basket, the stronger they wove themselves into my brain."
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