The English humorists of the eighteenth century. Critical reviews. The second funeral of NapoleonEstes & Lauriat, 1896 |
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Zadetki 1–5 od 37
Stran 15
... turned them , and tried them , and marked them . Ah ! what platitudes he must have heard ! what feeble jokes ! what pompous commonplaces ! what small men they must have seemed under those enor- mous periwigs , to the swarthy , uncouth ...
... turned them , and tried them , and marked them . Ah ! what platitudes he must have heard ! what feeble jokes ! what pompous commonplaces ! what small men they must have seemed under those enor- mous periwigs , to the swarthy , uncouth ...
Stran 31
... Turning to the first minister who waited behind him with a white staff near as tall as the mainmast of the " Royal Sovereign , " the King of Brobdingnag observes how contemptible a thing hu- man grandeur is , as represented by such a ...
... Turning to the first minister who waited behind him with a white staff near as tall as the mainmast of the " Royal Sovereign , " the King of Brobdingnag observes how contemptible a thing hu- man grandeur is , as represented by such a ...
Stran 32
... turning it in a thou- sand ways . He is full of it . The figure suggests it- self naturally to him , and comes out of his subject , as in that wonderful passage , when Gulliver's box having been dropped by the eagle into the sea , and ...
... turning it in a thou- sand ways . He is full of it . The figure suggests it- self naturally to him , and comes out of his subject , as in that wonderful passage , when Gulliver's box having been dropped by the eagle into the sea , and ...
Stran 57
... turned out when the Puri- tans hooted her , to fight and defend her . But the jade was indefensible , and it is pretty certain her servants knew it . There is life and death going on in everything : truth and lies always at battle ...
... turned out when the Puri- tans hooted her , to fight and defend her . But the jade was indefensible , and it is pretty certain her servants knew it . There is life and death going on in everything : truth and lies always at battle ...
Stran 63
... turned nun , and I am turning friar , and yet we ' ll marry one another in spite of the Pope . Get me a cowl and beads , that I may play my part ; for she'll meet me two hours hence in black and white , and a long veil to cover the ...
... turned nun , and I am turning friar , and yet we ' ll marry one another in spite of the Pope . Get me a cowl and beads , that I may play my part ; for she'll meet me two hours hence in black and white , and a long veil to cover the ...
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