The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1853 - 297 Seiten |
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... tell you that the Lord Treasurer hears ill with the left ear just as 1 do ? . . . . . . I dare not tell him that I am so , sir ; for fear he should think that 1 counterfeited to make my court ! " - Journal to Stella . of his own . The ...
... tell you that the Lord Treasurer hears ill with the left ear just as 1 do ? . . . . . . I dare not tell him that I am so , sir ; for fear he should think that 1 counterfeited to make my court ! " - Journal to Stella . of his own . The ...
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... tell him that the coach has taken a different road , and escaped him . So he fires his pistols into the air with a curse , and rides away into his country . ' 1 The war of pamphlets was carried on fiercely on one side and the other ...
... tell him that the coach has taken a different road , and escaped him . So he fires his pistols into the air with a curse , and rides away into his country . ' 1 The war of pamphlets was carried on fiercely on one side and the other ...
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... tell me the cause , but would be glad to see he was in better ; and one thing I warned him of - never to appear cold to me , for I would not be treated like a schoolboy ; that I had felt too much of that in my life already " ( meaning ...
... tell me the cause , but would be glad to see he was in better ; and one thing I warned him of - never to appear cold to me , for I would not be treated like a schoolboy ; that I had felt too much of that in my life already " ( meaning ...
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... tell you the truth , I have for these four or five years past met with so much treachery , baseness , and ingratitude among mankind , that I can hard- ly think it incumbent on any man to endeavour to do good to so perverse a genera ...
... tell you the truth , I have for these four or five years past met with so much treachery , baseness , and ingratitude among mankind , that I can hard- ly think it incumbent on any man to endeavour to do good to so perverse a genera ...
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... tell about the blue eyes of young Jonathan . One may say that the book of Swift's Life opens at places kept by these blighted flowers ! Varina must have a paragraph . She was a Miss Jane Waryng , sister to a college chum of his . In ...
... tell about the blue eyes of young Jonathan . One may say that the book of Swift's Life opens at places kept by these blighted flowers ! Varina must have a paragraph . She was a Miss Jane Waryng , sister to a college chum of his . In ...
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