The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1853 - 297 strani |
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... lady , nor mention his name . After dinner , said the Dean , ' Lady Burlington , I 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 ...
... lady , nor mention his name . After dinner , said the Dean , ' Lady Burlington , I 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 ...
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... lady's brocade petticoat in the mud . He eases the one of a living , the other of a patent place , the third of a little snug post about the Court , and gives them over to followers she burst into tears and retired . His first ...
... lady's brocade petticoat in the mud . He eases the one of a living , the other of a patent place , the third of a little snug post about the Court , and gives them over to followers she burst into tears and retired . His first ...
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... lady whisking her long train [ long trains were then in fashion ] swept down a fine fiddle and broke it ; Swift cried out- " Mantua væ miseræ nimium vicina Cremona ! " —Dr . DELANY . Observations upon Lord Orrery's “ Remarks , & c ...
... lady whisking her long train [ long trains were then in fashion ] swept down a fine fiddle and broke it ; Swift cried out- " Mantua væ miseræ nimium vicina Cremona ! " —Dr . DELANY . Observations upon Lord Orrery's “ Remarks , & c ...
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... lady's good graces , or run on his honour's errands . ' It was here , as he was writing at Temple's table , or follow- ing his patron's walk , that he saw and heard the men who had governed the great world - measured himself with them ...
... lady's good graces , or run on his honour's errands . ' It was here , as he was writing at Temple's table , or follow- ing his patron's walk , that he saw and heard the men who had governed the great world - measured himself with them ...
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... 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 lets the King's party , and the Prince of Orange's ...
... 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 lets the King's party , and the Prince of Orange's ...
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acquaintance Addison admire asked beauty Bolingbroke called Captain character charming cheerfulness Congreve court Dean dear death delightful Dick Steele dinner Dublin Duke Dunciad Earl England English eyes face famous fancy father fond fortune genius gentleman give Goldsmith hand happy heart Hogarth honest honour humour humourist Iliad Ireland Johnson Joseph Addison kind lady laugh Lawrence Sterne letters literary lived London look Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Treasurer manner married MATTHEW PRIOR Muslin nature never night North Briton passed periwig pity pleasure poem poet poor Pope Pope's portrait pretty satire says sing Sir William Temple speak Spence's Anecdotes Stella Sterne story Struldbrugs sweet Swift Tatler tell tender thee thou thought told Tom Jones truth verses Vicar of Wakefield vols whilst wife William William Congreve woman writing wrote young