English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century: Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith |
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... gave her this dismal answer . She has solved the question for herself by this time , and knows quite as well as the society of gentlemen . From theology we come to physics , and Q. asks , “ Why does hot water freeze sooner than cold ...
... gave her this dismal answer . She has solved the question for herself by this time , and knows quite as well as the society of gentlemen . From theology we come to physics , and Q. asks , “ Why does hot water freeze sooner than cold ...
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... gave me first the reputation of a conjurer , which has been of great disadvantage to me ever since , and kept me out of all public employments . The greater part of my later years has been divided between Dick's coffee - house , the ...
... gave me first the reputation of a conjurer , which has been of great disadvantage to me ever since , and kept me out of all public employments . The greater part of my later years has been divided between Dick's coffee - house , the ...
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... gave me the quickest joy before turn now to a certain anxiety . As the children play in the next room , I know the poor things by their steps , and am considering what they must do , should they lose their mother in their tender years ...
... gave me the quickest joy before turn now to a certain anxiety . As the children play in the next room , I know the poor things by their steps , and am considering what they must do , should they lose their mother in their tender years ...
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... gave my young gentleman a new train of thoughts : he began to reflect upon his birth , the great expectations he was born to , and the unsuitable ways he had long pursued . Instead of that unthinking creature he was before , he is now ...
... gave my young gentleman a new train of thoughts : he began to reflect upon his birth , the great expectations he was born to , and the unsuitable ways he had long pursued . Instead of that unthinking creature he was before , he is now ...
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... , that this martial prince gave him so great a box on the ear , as set all the heads of the court upright . This humour takes place in our minds as well as bodies . I know at this time a young gentlemen , who talks 50 THE TATLER.
... , that this martial prince gave him so great a box on the ear , as set all the heads of the court upright . This humour takes place in our minds as well as bodies . I know at this time a young gentlemen , who talks 50 THE TATLER.
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