The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1853 - 297 strani |
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Stran 31
... wonderful for its activity and terrible rage . It is Samson , with a bone in his hand , rushing on his enemies and felling them : one admires not the cause so much as the strength , the anger , the fury of the champion . As is the case ...
... wonderful for its activity and terrible rage . It is Samson , with a bone in his hand , rushing on his enemies and felling them : one admires not the cause so much as the strength , the anger , the fury of the champion . As is the case ...
Stran 34
... wonderful passage , when Gulliver's box having been dropped by the eagle into the sea , and Gulliver having been received into the ship's cabin , he calls upon the crew to bring the box into the cabin , and put it on the table , the ...
... wonderful passage , when Gulliver's box having been dropped by the eagle into the sea , and Gulliver having been received into the ship's cabin , he calls upon the crew to bring the box into the cabin , and put it on the table , the ...
Stran 51
... wonderful fruit - bearing rod was that of Busby's . What have men of letters got in our time ? Think , not only of Swift , a king fit to rule in any time an empire - but Addison , Steele , Prior , Tickell , Congreve , John Gay , John ...
... wonderful fruit - bearing rod was that of Busby's . What have men of letters got in our time ? Think , not only of Swift , a king fit to rule in any time an empire - but Addison , Steele , Prior , Tickell , Congreve , John Gay , John ...
Stran 65
... wonderful traits of roguish satire . She is practised on by the gallants of the play , and no more knows how to resist them than any of the ladies above quoted could resist Con- greve . Lady Plyant . - O ! reflect upon the honour of ...
... wonderful traits of roguish satire . She is practised on by the gallants of the play , and no more knows how to resist them than any of the ladies above quoted could resist Con- greve . Lady Plyant . - O ! reflect upon the honour of ...
Stran 85
... wonderful profu- sion , and as it seemed an almost endless fecundity . He was six - and - thirty years old : full and ripe . He had not worked crop after crop from his brain , manúring hastily , subsoiling indifferently , cutting and ...
... wonderful profu- sion , and as it seemed an almost endless fecundity . He was six - and - thirty years old : full and ripe . He had not worked crop after crop from his brain , manúring hastily , subsoiling indifferently , cutting and ...
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acquaintance Addison admire asked beauty Bolingbroke called Captain character charming cheerfulness Congreve court Dean dear death delightful Dick Steele dinner Dublin Duke Dunciad Earl England English eyes face famous fancy father fond fortune genius gentleman give Goldsmith hand happy heart Hogarth honest honour humour humourist Iliad Ireland Johnson Joseph Addison kind lady laugh Lawrence Sterne letters literary lived London look Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Treasurer manner married MATTHEW PRIOR Muslin nature never night North Briton passed periwig pity pleasure poem poet poor Pope Pope's portrait pretty satire says sing Sir William Temple speak Spence's Anecdotes Stella Sterne story Struldbrugs sweet Swift Tatler tell tender thee thou thought told Tom Jones truth verses Vicar of Wakefield vols whilst wife William William Congreve woman writing wrote young