The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1853 - 297 páginas |
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... manner of asking a favour with distaste , and positively refused . He said ' She should sing , or he would make her . Why , madam , I suppose you take me for one of your poor English hedge - parsons ; sing when I bid you . ' As the Earl ...
... manner of asking a favour with distaste , and positively refused . He said ' She should sing , or he would make her . Why , madam , I suppose you take me for one of your poor English hedge - parsons ; sing when I bid you . ' As the Earl ...
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... manner entirely his own . In his friendships he was constant and undisguised . He was the same in his enmities . " - ORRERY . 1 " I make no figure but at court , where I affect to turn from a lord to the mean- est of my acquaintances ...
... manner entirely his own . In his friendships he was constant and undisguised . He was the same in his enmities . " - ORRERY . 1 " I make no figure but at court , where I affect to turn from a lord to the mean- est of my acquaintances ...
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... manner of the licentiousness of the press and the abusive language of the other party : ..... " It must be acknowledged that the bad practices of printers have been such as to deserve the severest animadversion from the public ...
... manner of the licentiousness of the press and the abusive language of the other party : ..... " It must be acknowledged that the bad practices of printers have been such as to deserve the severest animadversion from the public ...
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... manners . His hand was constantly stretched out to relieve an honest man - he was cautious about his money , but ready . — If you were in a strait , would you like such a benefactor ? I think I would rather have had a potato and a ...
... manners . His hand was constantly stretched out to relieve an honest man - he was cautious about his money , but ready . — If you were in a strait , would you like such a benefactor ? I think I would rather have had a potato and a ...
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... manner - Vanessa was thrown over . Swift did not keep Stella's 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 ...
... manner - Vanessa was thrown over . Swift did not keep Stella's 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 ...
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