English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century: Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith |
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... is the best comic sketch , " says Hazlitt , " since the time of Addison ; unrivalled in his fancy , his vanity and his poverty . " CONTENTS . STEELE From Thackeray's English Humorists .. The Tatler Library of L. B. Evans.
... is the best comic sketch , " says Hazlitt , " since the time of Addison ; unrivalled in his fancy , his vanity and his poverty . " CONTENTS . STEELE From Thackeray's English Humorists .. The Tatler Library of L. B. Evans.
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... fancy Joseph Addison's calm smile and cold gray eyes following Dick for an instant , as he struts down the Mall , to dine with the Guard at St. James's , before he turns with his sober pace and threadbare suit , to walk back to his ...
... fancy Joseph Addison's calm smile and cold gray eyes following Dick for an instant , as he struts down the Mall , to dine with the Guard at St. James's , before he turns with his sober pace and threadbare suit , to walk back to his ...
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... fancy Steele full of spirits and youth , leaving his gay company to go to Addison's lodging , where his friend sits in the shabby sitting - room , quite serene , and cheer- ful , and poor ? In 1704 , Steele came on the town with another ...
... fancy Steele full of spirits and youth , leaving his gay company to go to Addison's lodging , where his friend sits in the shabby sitting - room , quite serene , and cheer- ful , and poor ? In 1704 , Steele came on the town with another ...
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... Fancy the moral condition of that society in which a lady of fashion joked with a footman , and carved a sirloin , and provided besides a great shoulder of veal , a goose , hare , rabbit , chickens , partridges , black puddings , and a ...
... Fancy the moral condition of that society in which a lady of fashion joked with a footman , and carved a sirloin , and provided besides a great shoulder of veal , a goose , hare , rabbit , chickens , partridges , black puddings , and a ...
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... Fancy a Colonel in the Guards putting his hand into a dish of beignets d'abricot , and helping his neighbor , a young lady du monde ! Fancy a noble lord calling out to the servants , before the ladies at his table , " Hang expense ...
... Fancy a Colonel in the Guards putting his hand into a dish of beignets d'abricot , and helping his neighbor , a young lady du monde ! Fancy a noble lord calling out to the servants , before the ladies at his table , " Hang expense ...
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