The English humorists of the eighteenth century. Critical reviews. The second funeral of NapoleonEstes & Lauriat, 1896 |
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... never be a poet , " was the phrase of Dry- den to his kinsman , which remained alive in a memory tenacious of such matters . 1 " Miss Hetty " she was called in the family- where her face , and her dress , and Sir William's treatment of ...
... never be a poet , " was the phrase of Dry- den to his kinsman , which remained alive in a memory tenacious of such matters . 1 " Miss Hetty " she was called in the family- where her face , and her dress , and Sir William's treatment of ...
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... never hide the freedom of my sentiments from you . I am much inclined to believe that the temper of my friend Swift might occasion his English friends to wish him happily and properly promoted at a distance . His spirit , for I would ...
... never hide the freedom of my sentiments from you . I am much inclined to believe that the temper of my friend Swift might occasion his English friends to wish him happily and properly promoted at a distance . His spirit , for I would ...
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... never indulges in needless extravagance of rhetoric , lavish epithets , profuse imagery . He lays his opinion before you with a grave simplicity and a perfect neat- ness.1 Dreading ridicule too , as a man of his humor - above all an ...
... never indulges in needless extravagance of rhetoric , lavish epithets , profuse imagery . He lays his opinion before you with a grave simplicity and a perfect neat- ness.1 Dreading ridicule too , as a man of his humor - above all an ...
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... never have lived with Swift . Swift sickened , rebelled , left the service ate humble pie , and came back again ; and so for ten years went on , gathering learning , swallowing scorn , and submitting with a stealthy rage to his fortune ...
... never have lived with Swift . Swift sickened , rebelled , left the service ate humble pie , and came back again ; and so for ten years went on , gathering learning , swallowing scorn , and submitting with a stealthy rage to his fortune ...
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... never hear their creak , or find them treading upon any lady's train or any rival's heels in the court crowd . When that grows too hot or too agitated for him , he politely leaves it . He retires to his retreat of Shene or Moor Park ...
... never hear their creak , or find them treading upon any lady's train or any rival's heels in the court crowd . When that grows too hot or too agitated for him , he politely leaves it . He retires to his retreat of Shene or Moor Park ...
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