The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1853 - 297 strani |
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... humourist ! laughing castigator of morals ! There was a process well known and practised in the Dean's gay days : when a lout entered the coffee - house , the wags proceeded to what they called " roast- 1 " London , April 10th , 1713 ...
... humourist ! laughing castigator of morals ! There was a process well known and practised in the Dean's gay days : when a lout entered the coffee - house , the wags proceeded to what they called " roast- 1 " London , April 10th , 1713 ...
Stran 58
... humourist in writing about life , sways over to one principle or the other , and laughs with the reverence for right and the love of truth in his heart , or laughs at these from the other side . Didn't I tell you that " If I do not ...
... humourist in writing about life , sways over to one principle or the other , and laughs with the reverence for right and the love of truth in his heart , or laughs at these from the other side . Didn't I tell you that " If I do not ...
Stran 126
... humourist takes upon himself to comment . All read- ers of our old masters know the terrible lines of Swift , in which he hints at his philosophy and describes the end of mankind : " Amazed , confused , its fate unknown , The world ...
... humourist takes upon himself to comment . All read- ers of our old masters know the terrible lines of Swift , in which he hints at his philosophy and describes the end of mankind : " Amazed , confused , its fate unknown , The world ...
Stran 127
... that died yesterday and some 600 years ago , I consider that Great Day when we shall all of us be contemporaries , and make our appearance to- gether . " Our third humourist comes to speak upon the same sub- STEELE . 127.
... that died yesterday and some 600 years ago , I consider that Great Day when we shall all of us be contemporaries , and make our appearance to- gether . " Our third humourist comes to speak upon the same sub- STEELE . 127.
Stran 128
A Series of Lectures William Makepeace Thackeray. Our third humourist comes to speak upon the same sub- ject . You will have observed in the previous extracts the characteristic humour of each writer - the subject and the contrast - the ...
A Series of Lectures William Makepeace Thackeray. Our third humourist comes to speak upon the same sub- ject . You will have observed in the previous extracts the characteristic humour of each writer - the subject and the contrast - the ...
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