The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1853 - 297 strani |
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Stran 9
... hears with surprise of these skulls " going the rounds " of houses , and being made the objects of dilettante curiosity . The larynx of Swift was actually carried off ! Phrenologists had a low opinion of his intellect , from the ob ...
... hears with surprise of these skulls " going the rounds " of houses , and being made the objects of dilettante curiosity . The larynx of Swift was actually carried off ! Phrenologists had a low opinion of his intellect , from the ob ...
Stran 11
... 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 her . Why , madam , I suppose you take me for ...
... 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 her . Why , madam , I suppose you take me for ...
Stran 12
... hears the sound of coaches and six , takes the road like Macheath , and makes society stand and deliver . They are all on their knees before him . Down go my lord bishop's apron , and his Grace's blue riband , and my lady's brocade ...
... hears the sound of coaches and six , takes the road like Macheath , and makes society stand and deliver . They are all on their knees before him . Down go my lord bishop's apron , and his Grace's blue riband , and my lady's brocade ...
Stran 19
... hear their creak , or find them treading upon any lady's train or any rival's heels in the Court crowd . When that grows too hot or too agitated for him , he politely leaves it . He retires to his retreat of Shene or Moor Park ; and ...
... hear their creak , or find them treading upon any lady's train or any rival's heels in the Court crowd . When that grows too hot or too agitated for him , he politely leaves it . He retires to his retreat of Shene or Moor Park ; and ...
Stran 34
... of the very old people in the voyage to Laputa . At Lugnag , Gulliver hears of some persons who never die , called the Struldbrugs , and expressing a wish but as I was going to prostrate myself to kiss 34 ENGLISH HUMOURISTS .
... of the very old people in the voyage to Laputa . At Lugnag , Gulliver hears of some persons who never die , called the Struldbrugs , and expressing a wish but as I was going to prostrate myself to kiss 34 ENGLISH HUMOURISTS .
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