The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1853 - 297 strani |
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... seen ; When nothing's left that's worth defence , They build a magazine ! 2 Besides these famous books of Scott's and Johnson's , there is a copious " Life " by Thomas Sheridan ( Dr. Johnson's “ Sherry ” ) , father of Richard Brinsley ...
... seen ; When nothing's left that's worth defence , They build a magazine ! 2 Besides these famous books of Scott's and Johnson's , there is a copious " Life " by Thomas Sheridan ( Dr. Johnson's “ Sherry ” ) , father of Richard Brinsley ...
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... seen that sweet serene face . I should like , as a young man , to have lived on Fielding's stair - case in the Temple , and after helping him up to bed perhaps , and opening his door with his latch - key , to have shaken hands with him ...
... seen that sweet serene face . I should like , as a young man , to have lived on Fielding's stair - case in the Temple , and after helping him up to bed perhaps , and opening his door with his latch - key , to have shaken hands with him ...
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... seen all the world , ' they had not the least curiosity to ask me a single question ; only desired I would give them slumskudask , or a token of remembrance ; which is a modest way of beg- ging , to avoid the law that strictly forbids ...
... seen all the world , ' they had not the least curiosity to ask me a single question ; only desired I would give them slumskudask , or a token of remembrance ; which is a modest way of beg- ging , to avoid the law that strictly forbids ...
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... seen them , or if they had been relatives of our own , we scarcely could have known them better . Who has not in his mind an image of Stella ? Who does not love her ? Fair and tender Boots it to you creature : pure and affectionate ...
... seen them , or if they had been relatives of our own , we scarcely could have known them better . Who has not in his mind an image of Stella ? Who does not love her ? Fair and tender Boots it to you creature : pure and affectionate ...
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... seen . " - SCOTT's Dryden , vol . i . p . 370 . * It was in Surrey - street , Strand ( where he afterwards died ) , that Voltaire vis- ited him , in the decline of his life . The anecdote in the text , relating to his saying that he ...
... seen . " - SCOTT's Dryden , vol . i . p . 370 . * It was in Surrey - street , Strand ( where he afterwards died ) , that Voltaire vis- ited him , in the decline of his life . The anecdote in the text , relating to his saying that he ...
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