The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures, Delivered in England, Scotland, and the United States of AmericaSmith, Elder & Company 65, Cornhill. Bombay: Smith, Taylor & Company, 1853 - 309 Seiten |
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... dinner , said the Dean , ' Lady Burlington , I hear you can sing ; sing me a song . The lady looked on this unceremonious manner of asking a favour with distaste , and positively refused . He said ' She should sing , or he would make ...
... dinner , said the Dean , ' Lady Burlington , I hear you can sing ; sing me a song . The lady looked on this unceremonious manner of asking a favour with distaste , and positively refused . He said ' She should sing , or he would make ...
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... dinner at the upper servants ' table , that this great and lonely Swift passed a ten years ' apprenticeship - wore a cassock that was only not a livery bent down a knee as proud as Lucifer's to supplicate my lady's good graces , or run ...
... dinner at the upper servants ' table , that this great and lonely Swift passed a ten years ' apprenticeship - wore a cassock that was only not a livery bent down a knee as proud as Lucifer's to supplicate my lady's good graces , or run ...
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... dinner , how he must have lashed and growled and torn the household with his gibes and scorn ! What would the steward say about the pride of them Irish schollards - and this one had got no great credit even at his Irish college , if the ...
... dinner , how he must have lashed and growled and torn the household with his gibes and scorn ! What would the steward say about the pride of them Irish schollards - and this one had got no great credit even at his Irish college , if the ...
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... dinner . ** He insulted a man as he served " Swift must be allowed , " says Dr. Johnson , “ for a time , to have dictated the political opinions of the English nation . " A conversation on the Dean's pamphlets excited one of the ...
... dinner . ** He insulted a man as he served " Swift must be allowed , " says Dr. Johnson , “ for a time , to have dictated the political opinions of the English nation . " A conversation on the Dean's pamphlets excited one of the ...
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... dinner . By the same token , I told the gentleman who recommended him to me , that the fellow was a blockhead , and I had done with him . " SHERIDAN'S Life of Swift . must have heard many an argument , and joined in 26 ENGLISH HUMOURISTS .
... dinner . By the same token , I told the gentleman who recommended him to me , that the fellow was a blockhead , and I had done with him . " SHERIDAN'S Life of Swift . must have heard many an argument , and joined in 26 ENGLISH HUMOURISTS .
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acquainted Addison admire asked beautiful Bolingbroke called Captain character charming cheerfulness Congreve court Dean dear death delightful Dick Steele dinner Drapier's Letters Dublin Duke Dunciad Earl England English Humourists eyes face famous fancy father fond fortune genius gentleman give Goldsmith hand happy heart hero Hogarth honest honour humour Iliad Irish John Dennis John Gay Johnson Joseph Addison Journal to Stella kind King lady laugh letters literary lived London look Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Treasurer manner married MATTHEW PRIOR nature never night passed person pity pleasure poem poet poor Pope Pope's pretty satire says sing Sir William Temple smile speak Spence's Anecdotes Stella Sterne story Struldbrugs sweet Swift Tatler tell tender thee thou thought told Tom Jones truth Vanessa verses whilst wife William Congreve woman writing wrote young