The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1853 - 297 strani |
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... Boling- broke : - " All my endeavours to distinguish myself were only for want of a great title and fortune , that I might be used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts ; whether right or wrong is no great matter . And so ...
... Boling- broke : - " All my endeavours to distinguish myself were only for want of a great title and fortune , that I might be used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts ; whether right or wrong is no great matter . And so ...
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... Bolingbroke laid hold of several of the Opposition pamphleteers , and bewails their " factiousness " in the following letter : " BOLINGBROKE TO THE EARL OF STRAFFORD . " Whitehall , July 23rd , 1712 . " It is a melancholy consideration ...
... Bolingbroke laid hold of several of the Opposition pamphleteers , and bewails their " factiousness " in the following letter : " BOLINGBROKE TO THE EARL OF STRAFFORD . " Whitehall , July 23rd , 1712 . " It is a melancholy consideration ...
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... Bolingbroke is not act- ive enough ; but I 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 ...
... Bolingbroke is not act- ive enough ; but I 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 ...
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... Bolingbroke , who chose these as the friends of his life , and the recipients of his confidence and affection , must have heard many an argument , and joined in many a conversation over Pope's port , or St. John's Bur- gundy , which ...
... Bolingbroke , who chose these as the friends of his life , and the recipients of his confidence and affection , must have heard many an argument , and joined in many a conversation over Pope's port , or St. John's Bur- gundy , which ...
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... day , had applauded him , and done him hom- age , and at this time writing over to Bolingbroke , from Ireland , he says , " It is time for me to have done with the world , and so I would if I could get 38 ENGLISH HUMOURISTS .
... day , had applauded him , and done him hom- age , and at this time writing over to Bolingbroke , from Ireland , he says , " It is time for me to have done with the world , and so I would if I could get 38 ENGLISH HUMOURISTS .
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