The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1853 - 297 strani |
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Stran 71
... Literary gentlemen do not kiss now ; I wonder if they love each other better . Steele calls Congreve " Great Sir " and " Great Author ; " says , " Well - dressed barbarians knew his awful name , " and addresses him as if he were a ...
... Literary gentlemen do not kiss now ; I wonder if they love each other better . Steele calls Congreve " Great Sir " and " Great Author ; " says , " Well - dressed barbarians knew his awful name , " and addresses him as if he were a ...
Stran 72
... literary performance , a ser- mon , or a poem , or a piece of literary criticism , but he felt he could do better . His justice must have made him in- different . He did not praise , because he measured his " Many who praise virtue ...
... literary performance , a ser- mon , or a poem , or a piece of literary criticism , but he felt he could do better . His justice must have made him in- different . He did not praise , because he measured his " Many who praise virtue ...
Stran 73
... literary beginner , every small literary ad- venturer who came to his court and went away charmed from the great king's audience , and cuddling to his heart the compliment which his literary majesty had paid him -each of the two good ...
... literary beginner , every small literary ad- venturer who came to his court and went away charmed from the great king's audience , and cuddling to his heart the compliment which his literary majesty had paid him -each of the two good ...
Stran 83
... literary Jeffries - in Addison's kind court only minor cases were tried : only peccadilloes and small sins against society : only a dangerous libertinism in tuckers and hoops ; ' or a her mother's death , the estate of Bilton , near ...
... literary Jeffries - in Addison's kind court only minor cases were tried : only peccadilloes and small sins against society : only a dangerous libertinism in tuckers and hoops ; ' or a her mother's death , the estate of Bilton , near ...
Stran 134
... literary society of his day , falls foul of poor Steele , and thus depicts him , — “ Sir John Edgar , of the County of in Ireland is of a mid- dle stature , broad shoulders , thick legs , a shape like the picture of somebody over a ...
... literary society of his day , falls foul of poor Steele , and thus depicts him , — “ Sir John Edgar , of the County of in Ireland is of a mid- dle stature , broad shoulders , thick legs , a shape like the picture of somebody over a ...
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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