The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1853 - 297 strani |
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... married . The Earl , it is supposed , being willing to have a little diversion , did not introduce him to his lady , nor mention his name . After dinner , said the Dean , ' Lady Burlington , I hear you can sing ; sing me a song . ' The ...
... married . The Earl , it is supposed , being willing to have a little diversion , did not introduce him to his lady , nor mention his name . After dinner , said the Dean , ' Lady Burlington , I hear you can sing ; sing me a song . ' The ...
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... Marriage is one of these ; in a hundred passages in his writ- ings he rages against it ; rages against children — an object of constant satire , even more contemptible in his eyes than a lord's chaplain , is a poor curate with a large ...
... Marriage is one of these ; in a hundred passages in his writ- ings he rages against it ; rages against children — an object of constant satire , even more contemptible in his eyes than a lord's chaplain , is a poor curate with a large ...
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... marriage by graver arguments and advice . In the famous Lilliputian kingdom , Swift speaks with approval of the practice of in- stantly removing children from their parents and educating them by the State ; and amongst his favourite ...
... marriage by graver arguments and advice . In the famous Lilliputian kingdom , Swift speaks with approval of the practice of in- stantly removing children from their parents and educating them by the State ; and amongst his favourite ...
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... marry one of his own kind , the marriage is dissolved of course , by the courtesy of the kingdom , as soon as the younger of the two comes to be fourscore . For the law thinks it to be a reasonable indulgence that those who are ...
... marry one of his own kind , the marriage is dissolved of course , by the courtesy of the kingdom , as soon as the younger of the two comes to be fourscore . For the law thinks it to be a reasonable indulgence that those who are ...
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... marry , and say " Don't . " When Gulliver first lands among the Yahoos , the naked howling wretches clamber up trees and assault him , and he describes himself as " almost stifled with the filth which fell about him . " The reader of ...
... marry , and say " Don't . " When Gulliver first lands among the Yahoos , the naked howling wretches clamber up trees and assault him , and he describes himself as " almost stifled with the filth which fell about him . " The reader of ...
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