The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1853 - 297 Seiten |
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... admire ; as for the moral , I think it horrible , shameful , unmanly , blas- phemous ; and giant and great as this Dean is , I say we should hoot him . Some of this audience may not have read the last part of Gulliver , and to such I ...
... admire ; as for the moral , I think it horrible , shameful , unmanly , blas- phemous ; and giant and great as this Dean is , I say we should hoot him . Some of this audience may not have read the last part of Gulliver , and to such I ...
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... admire , feel much ? I may expect a child to admire me for being taller or writing more cleverly than she ; but how can I ask my superior to say that I am a wonder when he knows better than I ? In Addison's days you could scarcely show ...
... admire , feel much ? I may expect a child to admire me for being taller or writing more cleverly than she ; but how can I ask my superior to say that I am a wonder when he knows better than I ? In Addison's days you could scarcely show ...
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... admire Joseph Addison . It is as a Tatler of small talk and a Spectator of mankind , that we cherish and love him , and owe as much pleasure to him as to any human being that ever wrote . He came in that artificial age , and began to ...
... admire Joseph Addison . It is as a Tatler of small talk and a Spectator of mankind , that we cherish and love him , and owe as much pleasure to him as to any human being that ever wrote . He came in that artificial age , and began to ...
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... admire another , than oneself . " L. Ha . No , I think not — yes , I grant you , than really to be vain of one's per- son , but I don't admire myself - Pish ! I don't believe my eyes to have that soft- ness . [ Looking in the glass ...
... admire another , than oneself . " L. Ha . No , I think not — yes , I grant you , than really to be vain of one's per- son , but I don't admire myself - Pish ! I don't believe my eyes to have that soft- ness . [ Looking in the glass ...
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... admire and respect them . Congreve the Great , who alludes to the low estimation in which women were held in Elizabeth's time , as a reason why the women of Shakspeare make so small a figure in the poet's dialogues , though he can him ...
... admire and respect them . Congreve the Great , who alludes to the low estimation in which women were held in Elizabeth's time , as a reason why the women of Shakspeare make so small a figure in the poet's dialogues , though he can him ...
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