The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1853 - 297 strani |
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... letter to Temple , in which , after having broke from his bondage , the poor wretch crouches piteously towards his cage again , and deprecates his master's anger . He asks for testimo- nials for orders . " The particulars required of me ...
... letter to Temple , in which , after having broke from his bondage , the poor wretch crouches piteously towards his cage again , and deprecates his master's anger . He asks for testimo- nials for orders . " The particulars required of me ...
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... Letters " patriotism ? They are master - pieces of dreadful humour and invective : they are reasoned logically enough too , but the proposition is as monstrous and fabulous as the Lil- liputian island . It is not that the grievance is ...
... Letters " patriotism ? They are master - pieces of dreadful humour and invective : they are reasoned logically enough too , but the proposition is as monstrous and fabulous as the Lil- liputian island . It is not that the grievance is ...
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... letter to her , beginning , " Impatience is the most inseparable quality of a lover . " But absence made a great difference in his feelings ; so , four years afterwards , the tone is changed . He writes again , a very curious letter ...
... letter to her , beginning , " Impatience is the most inseparable quality of a lover . " But absence made a great difference in his feelings ; so , four years afterwards , the tone is changed . He writes again , a very curious letter ...
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... letter to her but he begins a new one on the same day . He cannot bear to let go her kind little hand as it were . He knows that she is thinking of him , and longing for him far away in Dublin yonder . He takes her letters from under ...
... letter to her but he begins a new one on the same day . He cannot bear to let go her kind little hand as it were . He knows that she is thinking of him , and longing for him far away in Dublin yonder . He takes her letters from under ...
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... letters to him in reply to those he wrote to her . ' He kept Bolingbroke's , and Pope's , and Harley's , and Peterborough's : but Stella , " very carefully , " the Lives say , kept Swift's . Of course : that is the way of 1 The ...
... letters to him in reply to those he wrote to her . ' He kept Bolingbroke's , and Pope's , and Harley's , and Peterborough's : but Stella , " very carefully , " the Lives say , kept Swift's . Of course : that is the way of 1 The ...
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acquaintance Addison admire asked beauty Bolingbroke called Captain character charming cheerfulness Congreve court Dean dear death delightful Dick Steele dinner Dublin Duke Dunciad Earl England English eyes face famous fancy father fond fortune genius gentleman give Goldsmith hand happy heart Hogarth honest honour humour humourist Iliad Ireland Johnson Joseph Addison kind lady laugh Lawrence Sterne letters literary lived London look Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Treasurer manner married MATTHEW PRIOR Muslin nature never night North Briton passed periwig pity pleasure poem poet poor Pope Pope's portrait pretty satire says sing Sir William Temple speak Spence's Anecdotes Stella Sterne story Struldbrugs sweet Swift Tatler tell tender thee thou thought told Tom Jones truth verses Vicar of Wakefield vols whilst wife William William Congreve woman writing wrote young