The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1860 - 297 Seiten |
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... hears with surprise of these skulls " going the rounds " of houses , and being made the objects of dilettante curiosity . The larynx of Swift was actually carried off ! Phrenologists had a low opinion of his intellect , from the ob ...
... hears with surprise of these skulls " going the rounds " of houses , and being made the objects of dilettante curiosity . The larynx of Swift was actually carried off ! Phrenologists had a low opinion of his intellect , from the ob ...
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... 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 her . Why , madam , I suppose you take me for ...
... 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 her . Why , madam , I suppose you take me for ...
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... hears the sound of coaches and six , takes the road like Macheath , and makes society stand and deliver . They are all on their knees before him . Down . go my lord bishop's apron , and his Grace's blue riband , and my lady's brocade ...
... hears the sound of coaches and six , takes the road like Macheath , and makes society stand and deliver . They are all on their knees before him . Down . go my lord bishop's apron , and his Grace's blue riband , and my lady's brocade ...
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... hear their creak , or find them treading upon any lady's train or any rival's heels in the Court crowd . When that grows too hot or too agitated for him , he politely leaves it . He retires to his retreat of Shene or Moor Park ; and ...
... hear their creak , or find them treading upon any lady's train or any rival's heels in the Court crowd . When that grows too hot or too agitated for him , he politely leaves it . He retires to his retreat of Shene or Moor Park ; and ...
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... of the very old people in the voyage to Laputa . At Lugnag , Gulliver hears of some persons who never die , called the Struldbrugs , and expressing a wish but as I was going to prostrate myself to kiss 84 ENGLISH HUMOURISTS .
... of the very old people in the voyage to Laputa . At Lugnag , Gulliver hears of some persons who never die , called the Struldbrugs , and expressing a wish but as I was going to prostrate myself to kiss 84 ENGLISH HUMOURISTS .
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acquaintance Addison admire asked beautiful Bolingbroke called Captain character charming Congreve court daughter Dean dear death delightful Dick Steele dinner Dublin Duke Dunciad Earl England English eyes face famous fancy father fond fortune genius gentle gentleman give Goldsmith hand happy heart Hogarth honest honour humour humourist Iliad Johnson Joseph Addison kind lady laugh Lawrence Sterne letters literary lived London look Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Treasurer manner married MATTHEW PRIOR nature never Nicholas Nickleby night noble North Briton periwig person pity pleasure poem poet poor Pope Pope's pretty satire says sing Sir William Temple smile speak Spence's Anecdotes Stella Sterne Struldbrugs sweet Swift Tatler tell tender thee thou thought told Tom Jones truth verses Vicar of Wakefield whilst wife William Congreve woman writing wrote young