The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1853 - 297 strani |
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... heart was English and in England , his habits English , his logic 1 Swift was by no means inclined to forget such considerations ; and his English birth makes its mark , strikingly enough , every now and then in his writings . Thus in a ...
... heart was English and in England , his habits English , his logic 1 Swift was by no means inclined to forget such considerations ; and his English birth makes its mark , strikingly enough , every now and then in his writings . Thus in a ...
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... heart , and has not a kind word even for little Hester Johnson ? Sir Perhaps for the Irish secretary , his Excellency's con- descension was even more cruel than his frowns . William would perpetually quote Latin and the ancient classics ...
... heart , and has not a kind word even for little Hester Johnson ? Sir Perhaps for the Irish secretary , his Excellency's con- descension was even more cruel than his frowns . William would perpetually quote Latin and the ancient classics ...
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... heart ... It is told , as if it were to Swift's credit , that the Dean of St. Patrick's performed his family devotions every morning regularly , but with such secresy , that the guests in his house were never in the least aware of the ...
... heart ... It is told , as if it were to Swift's credit , that the Dean of St. Patrick's performed his family devotions every morning regularly , but with such secresy , that the guests in his house were never in the least aware of the ...
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... heart of that giant ! It is awful to think of the great sufferings of this great man . Through life he always seems alone , some- how . Goethe was so . I cannot fancy Shakspeare other- 1 " Mr. Swift lived with him [ Sir William Temple ] ...
... heart of that giant ! It is awful to think of the great sufferings of this great man . Through life he always seems alone , some- how . Goethe was so . I cannot fancy Shakspeare other- 1 " Mr. Swift lived with him [ Sir William Temple ] ...
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... heart , and which he dares to inscribe on his tombstone -as if the wretch who lay under that stone waiting God's judgment had a right to be angry - breaks out from him in a thousand pages of his writings , and tears and rends him ...
... heart , and which he dares to inscribe on his tombstone -as if the wretch who lay under that stone waiting God's judgment had a right to be angry - breaks out from him in a thousand pages of his writings , and tears and rends him ...
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