The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1860 - 297 strani |
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Stran 5
... , and often very sad . If Humour only meant laughter , you would 1 The anecdote is frequently told of our performer , RICH . scarcely feel more interest about humourous writers than about the LECTURE THE FIRST SWIFT .....................
... , and often very sad . If Humour only meant laughter , you would 1 The anecdote is frequently told of our performer , RICH . scarcely feel more interest about humourous writers than about the LECTURE THE FIRST SWIFT .....................
Stran 6
... laugh . But the men regarding whose lives and stories your kind presence here shows that you have curiosity and sympathy , appeal to a great number of our other faculties , besides our mere sense of ridicule . The humourous writer ...
... laugh . But the men regarding whose lives and stories your kind presence here shows that you have curiosity and sympathy , appeal to a great number of our other faculties , besides our mere sense of ridicule . The humourous writer ...
Stran 11
... madam , I suppose you take me for one of your poor English hedge - parsons ; sing when I bid you . ' As the Earl did nothing but laugh at this freedom , the lady was so vexed that He says as much himself in one of his letters SWIFT . 11.
... madam , I suppose you take me for one of your poor English hedge - parsons ; sing when I bid you . ' As the Earl did nothing but laugh at this freedom , the lady was so vexed that He says as much himself in one of his letters SWIFT . 11.
Stran 32
... laughing castigator of morals ! There was a process well known and practised in the Dean's gay days : when a lout entered the coffee - house , the wags proceeded to what they called " roast 1 " London , April 10th , 1713 . " Lady ...
... laughing castigator of morals ! There was a process well known and practised in the Dean's gay days : when a lout entered the coffee - house , the wags proceeded to what they called " roast 1 " London , April 10th , 1713 . " Lady ...
Stran 39
... met with some worthy partner , and lived long enough to see her little boys laughing over Lilliput , without any arrière pensée of a sad character about the great Dean ! and deplores you ? Scarce any man , I believe SWIFT . 39.
... met with some worthy partner , and lived long enough to see her little boys laughing over Lilliput , without any arrière pensée of a sad character about the great Dean ! and deplores you ? Scarce any man , I believe SWIFT . 39.
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