The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1853 - 297 páginas |
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... never be a poet , " was the phrase of Dryden to his kingman , which remained alive in a memory tenacious of such matters . 1 “ Miss Hetty ” she was called in the family , where her face , and her dress , and Sir William's treatment of ...
... never be a poet , " was the phrase of Dryden to his kingman , which remained alive in a memory tenacious of such matters . 1 “ Miss Hetty ” she was called in the family , where her face , and her dress , and Sir William's treatment of ...
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... never be a poet , " was the phrase of Dryden to his kins- man , which remained alive in a memory tenacious of such matters . 1 " Miss Hetty " she was called in the family , where her face , and her dress , and Sir William's treatment of ...
... never be a poet , " was the phrase of Dryden to his kins- man , which remained alive in a memory tenacious of such matters . 1 " Miss Hetty " she was called in the family , where her face , and her dress , and Sir William's treatment of ...
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... never hide the freedom of my sentiments from you . I am much inclined to believe that the temper of my friend Swift might occasion his English friends to wish him happily and properly promoted at a distance . His spirit , for I would ...
... never hide the freedom of my sentiments from you . I am much inclined to believe that the temper of my friend Swift might occasion his English friends to wish him happily and properly promoted at a distance . His spirit , for I would ...
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... never to let them see me . " - Journal to Stella . The following curious paragraph illustrates the life of a courtier : — " Did I ever tell you that the Lord Treasurer hears ill with the left ear just as 1 do ? . . . . . . I dare not ...
... never to let them see me . " - Journal to Stella . The following curious paragraph illustrates the life of a courtier : — " Did I ever tell you that the Lord Treasurer hears ill with the left ear just as 1 do ? . . . . . . I dare not ...
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... never indulges in needless extravagance of rhetoric , lavish epithets , profuse imagery . He lays his opinion before you with a grave simplicity and a perfect neatness . Dreading ridicule , too , as a man of his humour - above all , an ...
... never indulges in needless extravagance of rhetoric , lavish epithets , profuse imagery . He lays his opinion before you with a grave simplicity and a perfect neatness . Dreading ridicule , too , as a man of his humour - above all , an ...
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