The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1853 - 297 стор. |
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... pompous dulness , the mean aims , the base successes— all these were present to him ; it was with the din of these curses of the world , blasphemies against Heaven , shrieking in his ears , that he began to write his SWIFT . 37.
... pompous dulness , the mean aims , the base successes— all these were present to him ; it was with the din of these curses of the world , blasphemies against Heaven , shrieking in his ears , that he began to write his SWIFT . 37.
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A Series of Lectures William Makepeace Thackeray. in his ears , that he began to write his dreadful allegory— of which the meaning is that man is utterly wicked , despe- rate , and imbecile , and his passions are so monstrous , and his ...
A Series of Lectures William Makepeace Thackeray. in his ears , that he began to write his dreadful allegory— of which the meaning is that man is utterly wicked , despe- rate , and imbecile , and his passions are so monstrous , and his ...
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... began to grieve at remembering the loss of a child lately dead . A bishop sitting by comfort ed him that he should be easy , because ' the child was gone to heaven . ' ' No , my lord , ' said she ; that is it which most grieves him ...
... began to grieve at remembering the loss of a child lately dead . A bishop sitting by comfort ed him that he should be easy , because ' the child was gone to heaven . ' ' No , my lord , ' said she ; that is it which most grieves him ...
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... began at school or college in the regular way , producing panegyrics upon public characters , what were called odes upon public events , battles , sieges , court mar- riages and deaths , in which the gods of Olympus and the tragic muse ...
... began at school or college in the regular way , producing panegyrics upon public characters , what were called odes upon public events , battles , sieges , court mar- riages and deaths , in which the gods of Olympus and the tragic muse ...
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... began to be the public favourite . She died in 1748 , in the eighty - fifth year of her age . * Johnson calls his legacy the " accumulation of attentive parsimony , which , " he continues , " though to her ( the Duchess ) superfluous ...
... began to be the public favourite . She died in 1748 , in the eighty - fifth year of her age . * Johnson calls his legacy the " accumulation of attentive parsimony , which , " he continues , " though to her ( the Duchess ) superfluous ...
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