The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1853 - 297 strani |
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... persons present , I fear is only very likely ) , his equal in mere social station , he would have bullied , scorned , and in- sulted you ; if , undeterred by his great reputation , you had met him like a man , he would have quailed ...
... persons present , I fear is only very likely ) , his equal in mere social station , he would have bullied , scorned , and in- sulted you ; if , undeterred by his great reputation , you had met him like a man , he would have quailed ...
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... persons of true ge- nius or knowledge have an invincible modesty and suspicion of themselves upon their first sending their thoughts into the world . " This " invincible modesty " was no doubt the sole reason which induced the Dean to ...
... persons of true ge- nius or knowledge have an invincible modesty and suspicion of themselves upon their first sending their thoughts into the world . " This " invincible modesty " was no doubt the sole reason which induced the Dean to ...
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... person whose ease and comfort he loves more than all the princes in Christendom , and that valuable member of society is himself , Gulielmus Temple , Baronettus . One sees him in his retreat ; between his study - chair and his tulip ...
... person whose ease and comfort he loves more than all the princes in Christendom , and that valuable member of society is himself , Gulielmus Temple , Baronettus . One sees him in his retreat ; between his study - chair and his tulip ...
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... person in that household , that pompous stately kindly Moor Park , saw heaven nowhere else . But the Temple amenities and solemnities did not agree with Swift . He was half - killed with a surfeit of Shene pippins ; and in a garden ...
... person in that household , that pompous stately kindly Moor Park , saw heaven nowhere else . But the Temple amenities and solemnities did not agree with Swift . He was half - killed with a surfeit of Shene pippins ; and in a garden ...
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... person to himself . ” — Pref- ace to Temple's Works . On all public occasions , Swift speaks of Sir William in the same tone . But the reader will better understand how acutely he remembered the indignities he suffered in his household ...
... person to himself . ” — Pref- ace to Temple's Works . On all public occasions , Swift speaks of Sir William in the same tone . But the reader will better understand how acutely he remembered the indignities he suffered in his household ...
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