The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1853 - 297 strani |
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... written a most interesting volume on the closing years of Swift's life , calls Johnson " the most malignant of his biog- raphers : " it is not easy for an English critic to please Irish- men - perhaps to try and please them . And yet ...
... written a most interesting volume on the closing years of Swift's life , calls Johnson " the most malignant of his biog- raphers : " it is not easy for an English critic to please Irish- men - perhaps to try and please them . And yet ...
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... written a foul epigram about you - watched for you in a sewer , and come out to assail you with a coward's blow and a dirty bludgeon . If you had been a lord with a blue riband , who flattered his vanity , or could help his ambition ...
... written a foul epigram about you - watched for you in a sewer , and come out to assail you with a coward's blow and a dirty bludgeon . If you had been a lord with a blue riband , who flattered his vanity , or could help his ambition ...
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... writing at Temple's table , or follow- ing his patron's walk , that he saw and heard the men who had governed the great world - measured himself with them , looking up from his silent corner , guaged their brains , weighed their wits ...
... writing at Temple's table , or follow- ing his patron's walk , that he saw and heard the men who had governed the great world - measured himself with them , looking up from his silent corner , guaged their brains , weighed their wits ...
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... writing ) , or running away with your master's niece or daughter , I directly advise you to go upon the road , which ... written by the best author of Newgate : some of your kind wenches will provide you with a hol- land shirt and white ...
... writing ) , or running away with your master's niece or daughter , I directly advise you to go upon the road , which ... written by the best author of Newgate : some of your kind wenches will provide you with a hol- land shirt and white ...
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... of the Allies ' is a performance of very little ability . Why , sir , Tom Davies might have written the ' Conduct of the Allies ! ' " - Bos- WELL'S Life of Johnson . B intrigues and triumphs . His journals and a thousand an- SWIFT . 25.
... of the Allies ' is a performance of very little ability . Why , sir , Tom Davies might have written the ' Conduct of the Allies ! ' " - Bos- WELL'S Life of Johnson . B intrigues and triumphs . His journals and a thousand an- SWIFT . 25.
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