"The remembrance of my infant days, like the fancied vibration of pleasant sounds in the ear, was still alive in my mind; and I flew to find out the marks by which even inanimate things were to be known, as the friends of my youth, not forgotten, though long unseen, nor lessened, in my estimation, from the pride of refinement, or the comparison of experience."
The Man of the World
At least 12 entries in ESTC (1773, 1783, 1787, 1792, 1795, 1799).<br>
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Text from  <u>The Man of the World. In Two Parts</u> (London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1773). &lt;<a href="http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xr  i:lion&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:pr:Z000030484:0">Link to LION</a>&gt;