The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1853 - 297 strani |
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Stran 19
... periwig and his hands in lace ruffles . If he wears buckles and square - toed shoes , he steps in them with a consummate grace , and you never hear their creak , or find them treading upon any lady's train or any rival's heels in the ...
... periwig and his hands in lace ruffles . If he wears buckles and square - toed shoes , he steps in them with a consummate grace , and you never hear their creak , or find them treading upon any lady's train or any rival's heels in the ...
Stran 22
... periwig , when Mr. Swift comes down from his master with rage in his 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 ...
... periwig , when Mr. Swift comes down from his master with rage in his 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 ...
Stran 44
... periwig was , and out of mere listlessness dine there , very often ; so I did to - day . " -Journal to Stella . Mrs. Vanhomrigh , " Vanessa's " mother , was the widow of a Dutch merchant who held lucrative appointments in King William's ...
... periwig was , and out of mere listlessness dine there , very often ; so I did to - day . " -Journal to Stella . Mrs. Vanhomrigh , " Vanessa's " mother , was the widow of a Dutch merchant who held lucrative appointments in King William's ...
Stran 68
... periwig , and delivering a killing ogle along with his scented billet ? And Sabina ? What a comparison that is between the nymph and the sun ! The sun gives Sabina the pas , and does not venture to rise before her ladyship : the morn's ...
... periwig , and delivering a killing ogle along with his scented billet ? And Sabina ? What a comparison that is between the nymph and the sun ! The sun gives Sabina the pas , and does not venture to rise before her ladyship : the morn's ...
Stran 95
... , but we travel no more . Addison talks jocularly of a difference of manner and costume being quite perceivable at Staines , where there passed a young fellow " with a very tolerable periwig , " though to be sure his STEELE . 95.
... , but we travel no more . Addison talks jocularly of a difference of manner and costume being quite perceivable at Staines , where there passed a young fellow " with a very tolerable periwig , " though to be sure his STEELE . 95.
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