The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1853 - 297 strani |
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Stran 12
... tell you that the Lord Treasurer hears ill with the left ear just as 1 do ? I dare not tell him that I am so , sir ; for fear he should think that 1 counterfeited to make my court ! " - Journal to Stella . .. of his own . The great ...
... tell you that the Lord Treasurer hears ill with the left ear just as 1 do ? I dare not tell him that I am so , sir ; for fear he should think that 1 counterfeited to make my court ! " - Journal to Stella . .. of his own . The great ...
Stran 13
... tell him that the coach has taken a different road , and escaped him . So he fires his pistols into the air with a curse , and rides away into his country.1 1 The war of pamphlets was carried on fiercely on one side and the other ; and ...
... tell him that the coach has taken a different road , and escaped him . So he fires his pistols into the air with a curse , and rides away into his country.1 1 The war of pamphlets was carried on fiercely on one side and the other ; and ...
Stran 17
... telling in after life what quantities of books he devoured there , and 1 " The style of his conversation was very much of a piece with that of his writ- ings , concise and clear and strong . Being one day at a Sheriff's feast , who ...
... telling in after life what quantities of books he devoured there , and 1 " The style of his conversation was very much of a piece with that of his writ- ings , concise and clear and strong . Being one day at a Sheriff's feast , who ...
Stran 24
... tell me the cause , but would be glad to see he was in better ; and one thing I warned him of - never to appear cold to me , for I would not be treated like a schoolboy ; that I had felt too much of that in my life already " ( meaning ...
... tell me the cause , but would be glad to see he was in better ; and one thing I warned him of - never to appear cold to me , for I would not be treated like a schoolboy ; that I had felt too much of that in my life already " ( meaning ...
Stran 25
... telling the time of day , complained that it was very late . A gentleman said he was too fast . ' How can I help it , ' says the doctor , ' if the courtiers give me a watch that won't go right ? " Then he instructed a young no- bleman ...
... telling the time of day , complained that it was very late . A gentleman said he was too fast . ' How can I help it , ' says the doctor , ' if the courtiers give me a watch that won't go right ? " Then he instructed a young no- bleman ...
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