 NEVEE was a man more overcome with so fantastical a passion as mine, I have painted a beautiful woman, and am despairing, dying for the picture. My own skill has undone me; it is not the dart of Venus, but my own pencil has thus wounded me. Ah, me! with...  The British Essayists: The Spectator - Strana 192podľa Alexander Chalmers - 1802Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
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...picture. My own skill has undone me ; 'tis not the dart of Venus, but my own pencil has thus wounded me. Ah me ! with what anxiety am I necessitated to adore...unhappy and unnatural passions than mine ? Yes, I 1 In ' Letters on Wit, Politics, and Morality,' edited by Abel Boyer, 1701. The letters ascribed to... | |
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