The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century: Critical Reviews ; The Second Funeral of NapoleonEstes & Lauriat, 1896 - 418 strani |
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... written a most interesting volume on the closing years of Swift's life , calls Johnson " the most malig- nant of his biographers : " it is not easy for an Eng- lish critic to please Irishmen - 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 malig- nant of his biographers : " it is not easy for an Eng- lish critic to please Irishmen - 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 ribbon , who flattered his vanity , or could help his ambition , he ...
... 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 ribbon , who flattered his vanity , or could help his ambition , he ...
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... writing at Temple's table , or following 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 , gauged their brains , weighed their wits ...
... writing at Temple's table , or following 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 , gauged 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 is the only post of honor left you : there you will meet many of your old comrades , and live a short life and a merry ...
... writing ) , or running away with your master's niece or daughter , I directly advise you to go upon the road , which is the only post of honor left you : there you will meet many of your old comrades , and live a short life and a merry ...
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... written by the best author of Newgate : some of your kind wenches will provide you with a hol- land shirt and white cap , crowned with a crimson or black ribbon : take leave cheerfully of all your friends in Newgate : mount the cart ...
... written by the best author of Newgate : some of your kind wenches will provide you with a hol- land shirt and white cap , crowned with a crimson or black ribbon : take leave cheerfully of all your friends in Newgate : mount the cart ...
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The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century: Critical Reviews. The ... William Makepeace Thackeray Prikaz kratkega opisa - 1901 |
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Stran 123 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents...
Stran 255 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
Stran 124 - I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions and debates of mankind.
Stran 76 - So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast, And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, 20 Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
Stran 30 - A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish...
Stran 229 - ... by composing, instead of inflaming, the quarrels of porters and beggars (which I blush when I say hath not been universally practised) and by refusing to take a shilling from a man who most undoubtedly would not have had another left, I had reduced an income of about £500 a year of the dirtiest money upon earth, to little more than £300 ; a considerable proportion of which remained with my clerk...
Stran 61 - See ! see, she wakes — Sabina wakes ! And now the sun begins to rise ? Less glorious is the morn, that breaks • From his bright beams, than her fair eyes. With light united, day they give ; But different fates ere night fulfil : How many by his warmth will live ! How many will her coldness kill...
Stran 267 - Sweet AUBURN ! parent of the blissful hour, Thy glades forlorn confess the tyrant's power. Here, as I take my solitary rounds...
Stran 85 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Stran 23 - Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English for which he would have them all subscribe : ' For,' says he, ' he shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.