The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1853 - 297 páginas |
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... talk and crack jokes over his breakfast and his mug of small beer . Who would not give some- thing to pass a night at the club with Johnson , and Gold- smith , and James Boswell , Esq . , of Auchinleck ? charm of Addison's companionship ...
... talk and crack jokes over his breakfast and his mug of small beer . Who would not give some- thing to pass a night at the club with Johnson , and Gold- smith , and James Boswell , Esq . , of Auchinleck ? charm of Addison's companionship ...
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... talk about Epicurus and Diogenes Laertius , Julius Cæsar , Semiramis , and the gardens of the Hesperides , Mæcenas , Strabo describing Jericho , and the Assyrian kings . A propos of beans , he would men- tion Pythagoras's precept to ...
... talk about Epicurus and Diogenes Laertius , Julius Cæsar , Semiramis , and the gardens of the Hesperides , Mæcenas , Strabo describing Jericho , and the Assyrian kings . A propos of beans , he would men- tion Pythagoras's precept to ...
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... talk and business . He was soliciting the Earl of Arran to speak to his brother , the Duke of Ormond , to get a place for a clergyman . He was promising Mr. Thorold to undertake , with my Lord . Treasurer , that he should obtain a ...
... talk and business . He was soliciting the Earl of Arran to speak to his brother , the Duke of Ormond , to get a place for a clergyman . He was promising Mr. Thorold to undertake , with my Lord . Treasurer , that he should obtain a ...
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... talking , they forget the common appellation of things , and the names of persons , even of those who are their nearest friends and relatives . For the same reason they can never amuse themselves with reading , because their memory will ...
... talking , they forget the common appellation of things , and the names of persons , even of those who are their nearest friends and relatives . For the same reason they can never amuse themselves with reading , because their memory will ...
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... talks to them , familiarly , paternally , with fond epithets and pretty caresses- -as he would to the sweet and artless creature who loved him . " Stay , " he writes one morning -it is the 14th of December , 1710- " Stay , I will answer ...
... talks to them , familiarly , paternally , with fond epithets and pretty caresses- -as he would to the sweet and artless creature who loved him . " Stay , " he writes one morning -it is the 14th of December , 1710- " Stay , I will answer ...
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