The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1860 - 297 Seiten |
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... hope to entertain you with a mere- ly humourous or facetious story . Harlequin without his mask is known to present a very sober countenance , and was himself , the story goes , the melancholy patient whom the Doctor advised to go and ...
... hope to entertain you with a mere- ly humourous or facetious story . Harlequin without his mask is known to present a very sober countenance , and was himself , the story goes , the melancholy patient whom the Doctor advised to go and ...
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... hope to swinge him . He is a Scotch rogue , one Ridpath . They get out upon bail , and write on . We take them again , and get fresh bail ; so it goes round . " - Journal to Stella . for one , that fate wrested the prey out of SWIFT . 15.
... hope to swinge him . He is a Scotch rogue , one Ridpath . They get out upon bail , and write on . We take them again , and get fresh bail ; so it goes round . " - Journal to Stella . for one , that fate wrested the prey out of SWIFT . 15.
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... hope . I don't know anything more melancholy than the letter to Temple , in which , after having broke from his bondage , the poor wretch crouches piteously towards his cage again , and deprecates his master's anger . He asks for ...
... hope . I don't know anything more melancholy than the letter to Temple , in which , after having broke from his bondage , the poor wretch crouches piteously towards his cage again , and deprecates his master's anger . He asks for ...
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... hope what is past will be forgotten , I confess I did endeavour in my last to put the best colour I could think of upon a very bad cause . My friends judge right of my idleness ; but , in reality , it has hitherto proceeded from a hurry ...
... hope what is past will be forgotten , I confess I did endeavour in my last to put the best colour I could think of upon a very bad cause . My friends judge right of my idleness ; but , in reality , it has hitherto proceeded from a hurry ...
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... hope you will be so kind as to let me know a post or two before you set out , the very day you will be at Kilkenny , that I may have all things prepared for you . It may be , if you ask him , Cope will come : he will do nothing for me ...
... hope you will be so kind as to let me know a post or two before you set out , the very day you will be at Kilkenny , that I may have all things prepared for you . It may be , if you ask him , Cope will come : he will do nothing for me ...
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