The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1853 - 297 strani |
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... moral or adorn a tale of ambition , as any hero's that ever lived and failed . But we must remember that the morality was lax , that other gentlemen besides himself took the road in his day , —that public society was in a strange dis ...
... moral or adorn a tale of ambition , as any hero's that ever lived and failed . But we must remember that the morality was lax , that other gentlemen besides himself took the road in his day , —that public society was in a strange dis ...
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... morals and learning ; and the reasons of quitting your Honour's family - that is whether the last was occasioned by any ill action . They are left entirely to your Honour's mercy , though in the first I think I cannot reproach myself ...
... morals and learning ; and the reasons of quitting your Honour's family - that is whether the last was occasioned by any ill action . They are left entirely to your Honour's mercy , though in the first I think I cannot reproach myself ...
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... 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 . “ Lady Masham's eldest boy is very ...
... 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 . “ Lady Masham's eldest boy is very ...
Stran 37
... moral , I think it horrible , shameful , unmanly , blas- phemous ; and giant and great as this Dean is , I say we should hoot him . Some of this audience may not have read the last part of Gulliver , and to such I would recal the ad ...
... moral , I think it horrible , shameful , unmanly , blas- phemous ; and giant and great as this Dean is , I say we should hoot him . Some of this audience may not have read the last part of Gulliver , and to such I would recal the ad ...
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... moral , and the blue sky shines calmly over the ruin . The Congreve muse is dead , and her song choked in Time's ashes . We gaze at the skeleton , and wonder at the life which once revelled in its mad veins . We take the skull up , and ...
... moral , and the blue sky shines calmly over the ruin . The Congreve muse is dead , and her song choked in Time's ashes . We gaze at the skeleton , and wonder at the life which once revelled in its mad veins . We take the skull up , and ...
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