The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of LecturesHarper, 1853 - Počet stran: 297 |
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... portrait or Swift's portrait is quite unlike the real Churchill . I take this as a single instance , prepared to be as sceptical about any other , and say to the Muse of History , " O venerable daughter of Mnemosyne , I doubt every ...
... portrait or Swift's portrait is quite unlike the real Churchill . I take this as a single instance , prepared to be as sceptical about any other , and say to the Muse of History , " O venerable daughter of Mnemosyne , I doubt every ...
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... though long habit and length of days have worn it off his tongue . " 991 1 Steele replied to Dennis in an " Answer to a Whimsical Pamphlet , called the Although this portrait is the work of a man who 134 ENGLISH HUMOURISTS .
... though long habit and length of days have worn it off his tongue . " 991 1 Steele replied to Dennis in an " Answer to a Whimsical Pamphlet , called the Although this portrait is the work of a man who 134 ENGLISH HUMOURISTS .
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A Series of Lectures William Makepeace Thackeray. Although this portrait is the work of a man who was neither the friend of Steele , nor of any other man alive ; yet there is a dreadful resemblance to the original , in the savage and ...
A Series of Lectures William Makepeace Thackeray. Although this portrait is the work of a man who was neither the friend of Steele , nor of any other man alive ; yet there is a dreadful resemblance to the original , in the savage and ...
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... portraits of the lit- erary worthies of the early part of the last century , Gay's face is the pleasantest perhaps of all . It appears adorned with neither periwig nor night - cap ( the full dress and neg- ligée of learning , without ...
... portraits of the lit- erary worthies of the early part of the last century , Gay's face is the pleasantest perhaps of all . It appears adorned with neither periwig nor night - cap ( the full dress and neg- ligée of learning , without ...
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... portrait of his old mother , and for whose picture he asked and thanked Jervas in one of the most delightful letters that ever was penned , ' — and the wonderful Kneller , who bragged more , spelt worse , and painted better than any ...
... portrait of his old mother , and for whose picture he asked and thanked Jervas in one of the most delightful letters that ever was penned , ' — and the wonderful Kneller , who bragged more , spelt worse , and painted better than any ...
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