The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures, Delivered in England, Scotland, and the United States of America, Издање 76Smith, Elder & Company, 1858 - 341 страница |
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... speak to you ; and in doing so , you are aware that I cannot hope to entertain you with a merely humourous or facetious story . Harlequin without his mask is known to present a very sober countenance , and was himself , the story goes ...
... speak to you ; and in doing so , you are aware that I cannot hope to entertain you with a merely humourous or facetious story . Harlequin without his mask is known to present a very sober countenance , and was himself , the story goes ...
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... speak . Accordingly , as he finds , and speaks , and feels the truth best , we regard him , esteem him - sometimes love him . And , as his business is to mark other people's lives and peculiari- ties , we moralise upon his life when he ...
... speak . Accordingly , as he finds , and speaks , and feels the truth best , we regard him , esteem him - sometimes love him . And , as his business is to mark other people's lives and peculiari- ties , we moralise upon his life when he ...
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... speak better English , and are much better bred . " And again , in the fourth Drapier's Letter , we have the follow- ing : - " A short paper , printed at Bristol , and reprinted here , reports Mr. Wood to say ' that he wonders at the ...
... speak better English , and are much better bred . " And again , in the fourth Drapier's Letter , we have the follow- ing : - " A short paper , printed at Bristol , and reprinted here , reports Mr. Wood to say ' that he wonders at the ...
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... speaking of the " censure " which it brings down , says : - " And what is yet worse , it is too well known that the bad con- sequence of this opinion affects those among us who are not the least liable to such reproaches farther than ...
... speaking of the " censure " which it brings down , says : - " And what is yet worse , it is too well known that the bad con- sequence of this opinion affects those among us who are not the least liable to such reproaches farther than ...
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... speak above his voice , as it were , and the tone of society . His initiation into politics , his knowledge of busi- ness , his knowledge of polite life , his acquaintance with literature even , which he could not have pursued very ...
... speak above his voice , as it were , and the tone of society . His initiation into politics , his knowledge of busi- ness , his knowledge of polite life , his acquaintance with literature even , which he could not have pursued very ...
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