The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1853 - 297 páginas |
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... characters , and to give even scurrilous language to those who are in the first degrees of honour . This , my lord , among others , is a symptom of the decayed condition of our government , and serves to show how fatally we mistake ...
... characters , and to give even scurrilous language to those who are in the first degrees of honour . This , my lord , among others , is a symptom of the decayed condition of our government , and serves to show how fatally we mistake ...
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... character before the Court ; let nothing prevail on you to confess , but the promise of a pardon for discovering your comrades : but I suppose all this to be in vain ; for if you escape now , your fate will be the same another day . Get ...
... character before the Court ; let nothing prevail on you to confess , but the promise of a pardon for discovering your comrades : but I suppose all this to be in vain ; for if you escape now , your fate will be the same another day . Get ...
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... character of him ! And at this time all the great wits of England had been at his feet . All Ireland had shouted after him , and worshipped as a liberator , a saviour , the greatest patriot and citizen . Dean Drapier Bickerstaff ...
... character of him ! And at this time all the great wits of England had been at his feet . All Ireland had shouted after him , and worshipped as a liberator , a saviour , the greatest patriot and citizen . Dean Drapier Bickerstaff ...
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... with some worthy partner , and lived long enough to see her little boys laughing over Lilliput , without any arrière pensée of a sad character about the great Dean ! and deplores you ? Scarce any man , I believe SWIFT . 39.
... with some worthy partner , and lived long enough to see her little boys laughing over Lilliput , without any arrière pensée of a sad character about the great Dean ! and deplores you ? Scarce any man , I believe SWIFT . 39.
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... character given of her by Cadenus is fine painting , but in general fictitious . She was fond of dress impatient to be ad- mired ; very romantic in her turn of mind ; superior , in her own opinion , to all her sex ; full of pertness ...
... character given of her by Cadenus is fine painting , but in general fictitious . She was fond of dress impatient to be ad- mired ; very romantic in her turn of mind ; superior , in her own opinion , to all her sex ; full of pertness ...
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