The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1853 - 297 strani |
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Stran 32
... pretty joke , as his way is , he argues it with perfect gravity and logic . He turns and twists this subject in a score of different ways : he hashes it ; and he serves it up cold ; and he gar- nishes it ; and relishes it always . He ...
... pretty joke , as his way is , he argues it with perfect gravity and logic . He turns and twists this subject in a score of different ways : he hashes it ; and he serves it up cold ; and he gar- nishes it ; and relishes it always . He ...
Stran 41
... pretty caresses - as he would to the sweet and artless creature who loved him . " Stay , " he writes one morning -it ... Pretty Stella ; Dear roguish , impudent , pretty M.D. ! " Every now and then he breaks into rhyme , as- " I ...
... pretty caresses - as he would to the sweet and artless creature who loved him . " Stay , " he writes one morning -it ... Pretty Stella ; Dear roguish , impudent , pretty M.D. ! " Every now and then he breaks into rhyme , as- " I ...
Stran 45
... pretty often in Vanessa's parlour . He likes to be admired and adored . Il y prend goût . He finds Miss Vanhomrigh to be a woman of great taste and spirit , and beauty and wit , and a fortune too . He sees her every day ; he does not ...
... pretty often in Vanessa's parlour . He likes to be admired and adored . Il y prend goût . He finds Miss Vanhomrigh to be a woman of great taste and spirit , and beauty and wit , and a fortune too . He sees her every day ; he does not ...
Stran 51
... pretty little pickings out of the public purse . The wits of whose • The following is a conspectus of them : - ADDISON . - Commissioner of Appeals ; Under Secretary of State ; Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ; Keeper of the ...
... pretty little pickings out of the public purse . The wits of whose • The following is a conspectus of them : - ADDISON . - Commissioner of Appeals ; Under Secretary of State ; Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ; Keeper of the ...
Stran 57
... pretty like epithets , Jeremy Collier attacked that godless , reckless Jezebel , the English comedy of his time , and called her what Nell Gwynn's man's fellow - servants called Nell Gwynn's man's mistress - the servants of the theatre ...
... pretty like epithets , Jeremy Collier attacked that godless , reckless Jezebel , the English comedy of his time , and called her what Nell Gwynn's man's fellow - servants called Nell Gwynn's man's mistress - the servants of the theatre ...
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