The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1853 - 297 strani |
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... dinner , said the Dean , ' Lady Burlington , I hear you can sing ; sing me a song . ' The lady looked on this unceremonious manner of asking a favour with distaste , and positively refused . He said ' She should sing , or he would make ...
... dinner , said the Dean , ' Lady Burlington , I hear you can sing ; sing me a song . ' The lady looked on this unceremonious manner of asking a favour with distaste , and positively refused . He said ' She should sing , or he would make ...
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... dinner at the upper serv- ants ' table , that this great and lonely Swift passed a ten years ' apprenticeship - wore a cassock that was only not a livery - bent down a knee as proud as Lucifer's to suppli- cate my lady's good graces ...
... dinner at the upper serv- ants ' table , that this great and lonely Swift passed a ten years ' apprenticeship - wore a cassock that was only not a livery - bent down a knee as proud as Lucifer's to suppli- cate my lady's good graces ...
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... dinner , how he must have lashed and growled and torn the household with his gibes and 1 SWIFT'S THOUGHTS ON HANGING . ( Directions to Servants . ) " To grow old in the office of a footman , is the highest of all indignities ; there ...
... dinner , how he must have lashed and growled and torn the household with his gibes and 1 SWIFT'S THOUGHTS ON HANGING . ( Directions to Servants . ) " To grow old in the office of a footman , is the highest of all indignities ; there ...
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... dinner . He insulted a man as he served him , made women cry , guests look foolish , bullied unlucky friends , and flung his benefactions into poor men's faces . No ; the Dean was no Irishman - no Irishman ever gave but with a kind word ...
... dinner . He insulted a man as he served him , made women cry , guests look foolish , bullied unlucky friends , and flung his benefactions into poor men's faces . No ; the Dean was no Irishman - no Irishman ever gave but with a kind word ...
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... dinner . I am , as it were , at home at that house , and every member of it knows me for their well- wisher . I cannot , indeed , express the pleasure it is to be met by the children with so much joy as I am when I go thither . The boys ...
... dinner . I am , as it were , at home at that house , and every member of it knows me for their well- wisher . I cannot , indeed , express the pleasure it is to be met by the children with so much joy as I am when I go thither . The boys ...
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