The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1853 - 297 Seiten |
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... carried off ! Phrenologists had a low opinion of his intellect , from the ob- servations they took . Dr. Wilde traces the symptoms of ill health in Swift , as detailed in his writings from time to time . He observes , likewise , that ...
... carried off ! Phrenologists had a low opinion of his intellect , from the ob- servations they took . Dr. Wilde traces the symptoms of ill health in Swift , as detailed in his writings from time to time . He observes , likewise , that ...
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... carried on fiercely on one side and the other ; and the Whig attacks made the ministry Swift served very sore . Bolingbroke laid hold of several of the Opposition pamphleteers , and bewails their " factiousness " in the following letter ...
... carried on fiercely on one side and the other ; and the Whig attacks made the ministry Swift served very sore . Bolingbroke laid hold of several of the Opposition pamphleteers , and bewails their " factiousness " in the following letter ...
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... carry them from the beginning of a sentence to the end ; and by this defect they are deprived of the only entertainment whereof they might otherwise be capable . " The language of this country being always on the flux , the Struldbrugs ...
... carry them from the beginning of a sentence to the end ; and by this defect they are deprived of the only entertainment whereof they might otherwise be capable . " The language of this country being always on the flux , the Struldbrugs ...
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... carried down to Cornwall or old Sarum , and so into Parliament . And many a young fellow deserted the jogtrot University curriculum , to hang on in the dust behind the fervid wheels of the parliamentary chariot . Where , I have often ...
... carried down to Cornwall or old Sarum , and so into Parliament . And many a young fellow deserted the jogtrot University curriculum , to hang on in the dust behind the fervid wheels of the parliamentary chariot . Where , I have often ...
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... carried their secret signs and rites from temple to temple . When the libertine hero carries off the beauty in the play , and the dotard is laughed to scorn for having the young wife : in the ballad , when the poet bid his mistress to ...
... carried their secret signs and rites from temple to temple . When the libertine hero carries off the beauty in the play , and the dotard is laughed to scorn for having the young wife : in the ballad , when the poet bid his mistress to ...
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