The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1853 - 297 strani |
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Stran 35
... pleasure ; and whenever they see a funeral , they lament and repent that others are gone to a harbour of rest , to which they themselves never can hope to arrive . They have no remembrance of anything but what they learned and observed ...
... pleasure ; and whenever they see a funeral , they lament and repent that others are gone to a harbour of rest , to which they themselves never can hope to arrive . They have no remembrance of anything but what they learned and observed ...
Stran 58
... Pleasure is always warring against self - restraint . Doubt is always crying Psha , and sneering . A man in life , a humourist in writing about life , sways over to one principle or the other , and laughs with the reverence for right ...
... Pleasure is always warring against self - restraint . Doubt is always crying Psha , and sneering . A man in life , a humourist in writing about life , sways over to one principle or the other , and laughs with the reverence for right ...
Stran 60
... pleasure - hating doctrine , whose gaunt disciples , lately passed over from the Asian shores of the Mediterranean were for breaking the fair im- ages of Venus , and flinging the altars of Bacchus down . I fancy poor Congreve's theatre ...
... pleasure - hating doctrine , whose gaunt disciples , lately passed over from the Asian shores of the Mediterranean were for breaking the fair im- ages of Venus , and flinging the altars of Bacchus down . I fancy poor Congreve's theatre ...
Stran 63
... pleasure separately occupy the family . Coffee - houses will be full of smoke and stratagem . And the cropt prentice that sweeps his master's shop in the morning , may , ten to one , dirty his sheets before night . But there are two ...
... pleasure separately occupy the family . Coffee - houses will be full of smoke and stratagem . And the cropt prentice that sweeps his master's shop in the morning , may , ten to one , dirty his sheets before night . But there are two ...
Stran 83
... pleasure to him as to any human being that ever wrote . He came in that artificial age , and began to speak with his noble , natural voice . He came , the gentle satirist , who hit no unfair blow ; the kind judge who castigated only in ...
... pleasure to him as to any human being that ever wrote . He came in that artificial age , and began to speak with his noble , natural voice . He came , the gentle satirist , who hit no unfair blow ; the kind judge who castigated only in ...
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