The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century1949 |
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... lecturing intimidated his sensitive nature , the idea of domestic chivalry finally got the better of his fear . " As I don't intend to touch the proceeds of the lectures " , he wrote to a ... lecture , was so great as to 8 INTRODUCTION.
... lecturing intimidated his sensitive nature , the idea of domestic chivalry finally got the better of his fear . " As I don't intend to touch the proceeds of the lectures " , he wrote to a ... lecture , was so great as to 8 INTRODUCTION.
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... lecture was truly good ... ; it was finished without being in the least studied , —a quiet humour and graphic force enlivened it throughout " . Even so , there can be little doubt that Thackeray was no master of the rostrum . His lectures ...
... lecture was truly good ... ; it was finished without being in the least studied , —a quiet humour and graphic force enlivened it throughout " . Even so , there can be little doubt that Thackeray was no master of the rostrum . His lectures ...
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... lecture , was also one of the lonely ones of the world . Such men have very few equals , and they don't herd with those . It is in the nature of such lords of intellect to be solitary - they are in the world but not of it ; and our ...
... lecture , was also one of the lonely ones of the world . Such men have very few equals , and they don't herd with those . It is in the nature of such lords of intellect to be solitary - they are in the world but not of it ; and our ...
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RICHARD STEELE | 77 |
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