The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1853 - 297 strani |
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... genius were often irregular . He assumed more the air of a patron than of a friend . He affected rather to dictate than advise . " -ORRERY . 2 .... " An anecdote which , though only told by Mrs. Pilkington , is well attest- ed , bears ...
... genius were often irregular . He assumed more the air of a patron than of a friend . He affected rather to dictate than advise . " -ORRERY . 2 .... " An anecdote which , though only told by Mrs. Pilkington , is well attest- ed , bears ...
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... genius levelled to the generality of their readers .. How- ever , the mischiefs of the press were too exorbitant to be cured by such a remedy as a tax upon small papers , and a bill for a much more effectual regulation of it was brought ...
... genius levelled to the generality of their readers .. How- ever , the mischiefs of the press were too exorbitant to be cured by such a remedy as a tax upon small papers , and a bill for a much more effectual regulation of it was brought ...
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... genius bound down by ignoble ties , and powerless in a mean de- pendence ; his age was bitter , like that of a great genius that had fought the battle and nearly won it , and lost it , and thought of it afterwards writhing in a lonely ...
... genius bound down by ignoble ties , and powerless in a mean de- pendence ; his age was bitter , like that of a great genius that had fought the battle and nearly won it , and lost it , and thought of it afterwards writhing in a lonely ...
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... genius I had when I wrote that book ! " I think he was admiring , not the genius , but the consequences to which the genius had brought him - a vast genius , a magnificent genius , a genius won- derfully bright , and dazzling , and ...
... genius I had when I wrote that book ! " I think he was admiring , not the genius , but the consequences to which the genius had brought him - a vast genius , a magnificent genius , a genius won- derfully bright , and dazzling , and ...
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... genius for it . As the " Almanach des Gourmands " says , On naît rôtisseur . And it was not merely by the sarcastic method that Swift exposed the unreasonableness of loving and having children . In Gulliver , the folly of love and ...
... genius for it . As the " Almanach des Gourmands " says , On naît rôtisseur . And it was not merely by the sarcastic method that Swift exposed the unreasonableness of loving and having children . In Gulliver , the folly of love and ...
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