The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1853 - 297 strani |
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... literary renown , chiefly that he might make up for the slight passed on him by his father , who left his library away from him . It is to be feared that the ink he used to wash He had , however , known Swift , and cor- His work ( which ...
... literary renown , chiefly that he might make up for the slight passed on him by his father , who left his library away from him . It is to be feared that the ink he used to wash He had , however , known Swift , and cor- His work ( which ...
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... literary char- acter , his life , his humour . The most notorious sinners of all those fellow - mortals whorn it is our business to discuss -Harry Fielding and Dick Steele , were especially loud , and I believe really fervent , in their ...
... literary char- acter , his life , his humour . The most notorious sinners of all those fellow - mortals whorn it is our business to discuss -Harry Fielding and Dick Steele , were especially loud , and I believe really fervent , in their ...
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... literary " swell " of his age . In my copy of " Johnson's Lives " Congreve's wig is the tallest , and put on with the jaunti- est air of all the laurelled worthies . " I am the great Mr. Congreve , " he seems to say , looking out from ...
... literary " swell " of his age . In my copy of " Johnson's Lives " Congreve's wig is the tallest , and put on with the jaunti- est air of all the laurelled worthies . " I am the great Mr. Congreve , " he seems to say , looking out from ...
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... literary chief in England , the veteran field - marshal of letters , himself the marked man of all Europe , and the centre of a school of wits , who daily gathered round his chair and tobacco - pipe at Wills ' . Pope dedicated his ...
... literary chief in England , the veteran field - marshal of letters , himself the marked man of all Europe , and the centre of a school of wits , who daily gathered round his chair and tobacco - pipe at Wills ' . Pope dedicated his ...
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... literary reputation , and in this perhaps the great Congreve was not far wrong . A touch of Steele's tenderness is worth all his finery - a flash of Swift's lightning - a beam of Addison's pure sunshine , and his tawdry play - house ...
... literary reputation , and in this perhaps the great Congreve was not far wrong . A touch of Steele's tenderness is worth all his finery - a flash of Swift's lightning - a beam of Addison's pure sunshine , and his tawdry play - house ...
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