English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century: Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith |
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... short ribs , and piercing through the diaphragma , " which did for Captain Coote . Hence the trials of my Lords Warwick and Mohun : hence the as- semblage of peers , the report of the transaction , in which these defunct fast men still ...
... short ribs , and piercing through the diaphragma , " which did for Captain Coote . Hence the trials of my Lords Warwick and Mohun : hence the as- semblage of peers , the report of the transaction , in which these defunct fast men still ...
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... short ribs . has done for him . Sur- geon , lords , captains , bailiffs , chairmen , and gentleman gaoler with your axe , where be you now ? The gentleman axeman's head is off his own shoulders ; the lords and judges can wag theirs no ...
... short ribs . has done for him . Sur- geon , lords , captains , bailiffs , chairmen , and gentleman gaoler with your axe , where be you now ? The gentleman axeman's head is off his own shoulders ; the lords and judges can wag theirs no ...
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... short chin , a short nose , a short forehead , a broad flat face , and a dusky countenance . Yet with such a face and such a shape , he discovered at sixty that he took himself for a beauty , and appeared to be more mortified at being ...
... short chin , a short nose , a short forehead , a broad flat face , and a dusky countenance . Yet with such a face and such a shape , he discovered at sixty that he took himself for a beauty , and appeared to be more mortified at being ...
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... short epistle from an unknown hand . - " SIR , I have no more to trouble you with , than to desire you would in your next help me to some answer to the inclosed concern- ing yourself . In the mean time I congratulate you upon the in ...
... short epistle from an unknown hand . - " SIR , I have no more to trouble you with , than to desire you would in your next help me to some answer to the inclosed concern- ing yourself . In the mean time I congratulate you upon the in ...
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... short , if the world can be but one virtue the better , or in any degree less vicious , or receive from them the smallest addition to their innocent diversions ; I shall not think my pains , or indeed my life , to have been spent in ...
... short , if the world can be but one virtue the better , or in any degree less vicious , or receive from them the smallest addition to their innocent diversions ; I shall not think my pains , or indeed my life , to have been spent in ...
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acquaintance ADDISON Æneids agreeable appear beautiful Belvidera Bickerstaff called Captain club coffee-house confess conversation Coote coquette court creature cried dear delight desire Dick dinner discourse door dress endeavour English entertainment eyes face fancy fashion father fortune Gascon gentleman give hand head hear heard heart honour hour humour husband ISAAC BICKERSTAFFE Joseph Addison kind lady laugh LAURENCE STERNE learning letter live look Lord Lord Warwick lover mankind manner marriage mind morning Muscovy nature never night observed occasion paper passed passion person petticoat pleased pleasure pounds present pretty Prue reason satisfaction says Sir Harry Sir Richard Steele speak Steele story talk Tatler tell thing thought tion told took town turned uncle Toby upholsterer VIRG Virgil Westminster Abbey Whig whole wife woman women word writing young