The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1853 - 297 Seiten |
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... verse and prose , who send me their books and poems , the vilest I ever saw ; but I have given their names to my man , never to let them see me . " - Journal to Stella . The following curious paragraph illustrates the life of a courtier ...
... verse and prose , who send me their books and poems , the vilest I ever saw ; but I have given their names to my man , never to let them see me . " - Journal to Stella . The following curious paragraph illustrates the life of a courtier ...
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... verses and letters to him , she adores him , implores him , admires him , thinks him some- thing god - like , and only prays to be admitted to lie at his feet . As they are bringing him home from church , those divine feet of Dr ...
... verses and letters to him , she adores him , implores him , admires him , thinks him some- thing god - like , and only prays to be admitted to lie at his feet . As they are bringing him home from church , those divine feet of Dr ...
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... verses at Christ- church or Trinity , in which the death of a great personage was bemoaned , the French king assailed , the Dutch or Prince Eugene complimented , or the reverse ; and the party in power was presently to provide for the ...
... verses at Christ- church or Trinity , in which the death of a great personage was bemoaned , the French king assailed , the Dutch or Prince Eugene complimented , or the reverse ; and the party in power was presently to provide for the ...
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... You are the reflection of Heaven in a pond ; and he that leaps at you is sunk . You are all white - a sheet of spotless paper - when you first are verses , they were amongst the most famous lyrics of 64 ENGLISH HUMOURISTS .
... You are the reflection of Heaven in a pond ; and he that leaps at you is sunk . You are all white - a sheet of spotless paper - when you first are verses , they were amongst the most famous lyrics of 64 ENGLISH HUMOURISTS .
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A Series of Lectures William Makepeace Thackeray. verses , they were amongst the most famous lyrics of the time , and pronounced equal to Horace by his contempora- born ; but you are to be scrawled and blotted by every goose's quill . I ...
A Series of Lectures William Makepeace Thackeray. verses , they were amongst the most famous lyrics of the time , and pronounced equal to Horace by his contempora- born ; but you are to be scrawled and blotted by every goose's quill . I ...
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acquaintance Addison admire asked beauty Bolingbroke called Captain character charming cheerfulness Congreve court Dean dear death delightful Dick Steele dinner Dublin Duke Dunciad Earl England English eyes face famous fancy father fond fortune genius gentleman give Goldsmith hand happy heart Hogarth honest honour humour humourist Iliad Ireland Johnson Joseph Addison kind lady laugh Lawrence Sterne letters literary lived London look Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Treasurer manner married MATTHEW PRIOR Muslin nature never night North Briton passed periwig pity pleasure poem poet poor Pope Pope's portrait pretty satire says sing Sir William Temple speak Spence's Anecdotes Stella Sterne story Struldbrugs sweet Swift Tatler tell tender thee thou thought told Tom Jones truth verses Vicar of Wakefield vols whilst wife William William Congreve woman writing wrote young