The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1860 - 297 Seiten |
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... beautiful , or your fortune large . Cleanliness in the first , and competency in the second , is all I ask for ! " The editors do not tell us what became of Varina in life . One would be glad to know that she met with some worthy ...
... beautiful , or your fortune large . Cleanliness in the first , and competency in the second , is all I ask for ! " The editors do not tell us what became of Varina in life . One would be glad to know that she met with some worthy ...
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... beautiful , grace- ful , and agreeable young women in London - only a little too fat . Her hair was blacker than a raven , and every feature of her face in perfection . 66 ' Properly speaking " -he goes on with a calmness which , under ...
... beautiful , grace- ful , and agreeable young women in London - only a little too fat . Her hair was blacker than a raven , and every feature of her face in perfection . 66 ' Properly speaking " -he goes on with a calmness which , under ...
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... beautiful or genteel ; . . . . . happy in the thoughts of being reported Swift's concubine , but still aiming and intending to be his wife . " --LORD ORRERY . ..... 2 " You bid me be easy , and you would see me as often as you could ...
... beautiful or genteel ; . . . . . happy in the thoughts of being reported Swift's concubine , but still aiming and intending to be his wife . " --LORD ORRERY . ..... 2 " You bid me be easy , and you would see me as often as you could ...
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... beautiful , and victorious from the first . Everybody acknowledged the young chieftain . The great Mr. Dryden ' declared " It has been observed that no change of ministers affected him in the least , nor was he ever removed from any ...
... beautiful , and victorious from the first . Everybody acknowledged the young chieftain . The great Mr. Dryden ' declared " It has been observed that no change of ministers affected him in the least , nor was he ever removed from any ...
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... beautiful Bracegirdle , ' the heroine of all his plays , the favourite of all the town of her day- and the Duchess of Marlborough , Marlborough's daughter , had such an admiration of him , that when he died she had an ivory figure made ...
... beautiful Bracegirdle , ' the heroine of all his plays , the favourite of all the town of her day- and the Duchess of Marlborough , Marlborough's daughter , had such an admiration of him , that when he died she had an ivory figure made ...
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