The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1853 - 297 strani |
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... gently to my mouth . I am to become acquainted with men who must have so much learning and experience , his colloquist describes the Struldbrugs to him . He said , " They commonly acted like mortals , till about thirty years old , after ...
... gently to my mouth . I am to become acquainted with men who must have so much learning and experience , his colloquist describes the Struldbrugs to him . He said , " They commonly acted like mortals , till about thirty years old , after ...
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... Gentle lady ! - so lovely , so loving , so unhappy . You have had countless champions , millions of manly hearts mourning for you . From generation to generation we take up the fond tradi- tion of your beauty ; we watch and follow your ...
... Gentle lady ! - so lovely , so loving , so unhappy . You have had countless champions , millions of manly hearts mourning for you . From generation to generation we take up the fond tradi- tion of your beauty ; we watch and follow your ...
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... gentle- men from the University got such a prodigious number of places ? A lad composed a neat copy of verses at Christ- church or Trinity , in which the death of a great personage was bemoaned , the French king assailed , the Dutch or ...
... gentle- men from the University got such a prodigious number of places ? A lad composed a neat copy of verses at Christ- church or Trinity , in which the death of a great personage was bemoaned , the French king assailed , the Dutch or ...
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... gentle satirist , who hit no unfair blow ; the kind judge who castigated only in smil- ing . While Swift went about , hanging and ruthless - a literary Jeffries - in Addison's kind court only minor cases were tried : only peccadilloes ...
... gentle satirist , who hit no unfair blow ; the kind judge who castigated only in smil- ing . While Swift went about , hanging and ruthless - a literary Jeffries - in Addison's kind court only minor cases were tried : only peccadilloes ...
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... gentle- man and game - preserver of what worth were he to us ? We love him for his vanities as much as his virtues . What is ridiculous is delightful in him : we are so fond of him because we laugh at him so . And out of that laughter ...
... gentle- man and game - preserver of what worth were he to us ? We love him for his vanities as much as his virtues . What is ridiculous is delightful in him : we are so fond of him because we laugh at him so . And out of that laughter ...
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