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Or blue in their firft foliage, richly tinged With the flant fun-beam, then at fits to paufe
Icelandic poetry 1797
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Lord Kcnyort faid, it was a very ill-advifcd things and if the admiral had a minute ta paufe, he had no doubt but hor would do what was right in this bu* iinefs. —
The New annual register, or General repository of history, politics, and ... 1797
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He obfervcd my confufion: but without taking notice of it, after a little paufe, he obligingly continued his difcourfe. —
Three dialogues on the amusements of clergymen [signed Jos. Frampton]. 1797
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In Aich cafes, the experienced obferver, before he ventures to adopt any novel opinion, will be inclined to paufe and deliberate.
The Monthly Review 1796
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Envy, after a paufe, fteps out, and among other declarations of her zeal utters thefe lines:
The Lives of the English Poets: and a criticism on their works 1795
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Let us paufe a little, and fee what this propoiition is, and how it will be maintained.
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I would have you confent to every article of the overture as I go along; and therefore here again I make a paufe to afk you, what do you think of this article?
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Here flop, and make a folemn, awful paufe 41 q Oh, what humility! that he, the Lord,
The Process and Empire of Christ: From His Birth to the End of the Mediatorial Kingdom; a Poem ... Elhanan Winchester 1793
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Attending to what they are about, wanting nothing, regretting nothing, they a re both, whilft engaged, in a ftate of eal'e; but then whatever fufpends the purfuits of the man of diverlion diftreffes him, whereas to the labourer or the man of bufinefs every paufe is a recreation.
Reasons for contentment; Paley, William, 1743-1805 1793
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The roving fight can paufe, and fwift feleft, from all fhe offers, parts, whereon to fix.
Three Essays: On Picturesque Beauty; On Picturesque Travel; And on Sketching ... 1792
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