The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1853 - 297 Seiten |
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... seem to struggle to bring into distinct consciousness , and shape into ex- pression , the intellect that lay smothering under gloomy obstruction in him . A pier- glass falling by accident , nearly fell on him . He said , he wished it ...
... seem to struggle to bring into distinct consciousness , and shape into ex- pression , the intellect that lay smothering under gloomy obstruction in him . A pier- glass falling by accident , nearly fell on him . He said , he wished it ...
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... , says he , " beside the objection to this clause from the practice of pious men , who , in publishing excellent writings for the service of religion , have chosen , out of an hum- Swift's seems to me to be as good a name SWIFT . 13.
... , says he , " beside the objection to this clause from the practice of pious men , who , in publishing excellent writings for the service of religion , have chosen , out of an hum- Swift's seems to me to be as good a name SWIFT . 13.
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A Series of Lectures William Makepeace Thackeray. Swift's seems to me to be as good a name to point a moral or adorn a tale of ambition , as any hero's that ever lived and failed . But we must remember that the morality was lax , that ...
A Series of Lectures William Makepeace Thackeray. Swift's seems to me to be as good a name to point a moral or adorn a tale of ambition , as any hero's that ever lived and failed . But we must remember that the morality was lax , that ...
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... seems to me , he was no more an Irishman than a man born of English parents at Calcutta is a Hindoo . ' Gold- smith was an Irishman , and always an Irishman : Steele was an Irishman , and always an Irishman : Swift's heart was English ...
... seems to me , he was no more an Irishman than a man born of English parents at Calcutta is a Hindoo . ' Gold- smith was an Irishman , and always an Irishman : Steele was an Irishman , and always an Irishman : Swift's heart was English ...
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... seems to be meant by very different expressions ; what is called by the Stoics apathy , or dispassion ; by the sceptics , indisturbance ; by the Molinists , quietism ; by common men , peace of conscience , seems all to mean but great ...
... seems to be meant by very different expressions ; what is called by the Stoics apathy , or dispassion ; by the sceptics , indisturbance ; by the Molinists , quietism ; by common men , peace of conscience , seems all to mean but great ...
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