The English humorists of the eighteenth century. Critical reviews. The second funeral of NapoleonEstes & Lauriat, 1896 |
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Stran 27
... wonderfully bright , and dazzling , and strong , to seize , to know , to see , to flash upon falsehood and scorch it into perdition , to penetrate into the hidden motives , and expose the black thoughts of men , -an awful , an evil ...
... wonderfully bright , and dazzling , and strong , to seize , to know , to see , to flash upon falsehood and scorch it into perdition , to penetrate into the hidden motives , and expose the black thoughts of men , -an awful , an evil ...
Stran 29
... 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 31
... wonderful absurdities are evolved , at so many stages of the calculation . 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 ...
... wonderful absurdities are evolved , at so many stages of the calculation . 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 ...
Stran 32
... 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 49
... 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 or 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 or empire - but Addison , Steele , Prior , Tickell , Congreve , John Gay , John ...
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acquainted Addison admirable artist asked beautiful Beggar's Opera Belle Poule Bolingbroke called Captain character charming coffin Congreve court Cruikshank Dean dear death delightful Dick dinner Dunciad England English eyes face famous fancy father fellow French genius gentleman George Cruikshank give Goldsmith hand happy head heart hero Hogarth honest honor humor humorist Jack Sheppard John Gay Johnson Joseph Addison kind King lady laugh letters live London look Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Treasurer manner married MATTHEW PRIOR moral morning Napoleon nature never night passed person picture pleasure poet poor Pope Pope's pretty Prince de Joinville satire smiling speak Spence's Anecdotes Steele Stella Sterne Street Struldbrugs Swift Tatler tell Temple tender thought Tom and Jerry Tom Jones verses whilst wife woman word write wrote young