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Pagina 8
... thing he wrote was an epigram on the building of a magazine for arms and stores , which was pointed out to him as he went abroad during his mental disease : - Behold a proof of Irish sense : Here Irish wit is seen ; When nothing's left ...
... thing he wrote was an epigram on the building of a magazine for arms and stores , which was pointed out to him as he went abroad during his mental disease : - Behold a proof of Irish sense : Here Irish wit is seen ; When nothing's left ...
Pagina 9
... thing which happened in 1835 , when certain works going on in St. Patrick's Cathedral , Dublin , afforded an opportunity of their being examined . One hears with surprise of these skulls " going the rounds " of houses , and being made ...
... thing which happened in 1835 , when certain works going on in St. Patrick's Cathedral , Dublin , afforded an opportunity of their being examined . One hears with surprise of these skulls " going the rounds " of houses , and being made ...
Pagina 10
... thing to pass a night at the club with Johnson , and Gold- smith , and James Boswell , Esq . , of Auchinleck ? charm of Addison's companionship and conversation has passed to us by fond tradition - but Swift ? If you had been his ...
... thing to pass a night at the club with Johnson , and Gold- smith , and James Boswell , Esq . , of Auchinleck ? charm of Addison's companionship and conversation has passed to us by fond tradition - but Swift ? If you had been his ...
Pagina 17
... things . . . . . and who cried out ' You must know , Mr. Dean , that I set up for a wit ? ' ' Do you so , ' says the Dean , ' take my advice , and sit down again ! ' 66 At another time , being in company , where a lady whisking her long ...
... things . . . . . and who cried out ' You must know , Mr. Dean , that I set up for a wit ? ' ' Do you so , ' says the Dean , ' take my advice , and sit down again ! ' 66 At another time , being in company , where a lady whisking her long ...
Pagina 19
... things in very different words , so in several ages , countries , constitutions of laws and religion , the same thing seems to be meant by very different expressions ; what is called by the Stoics apathy , or dispassion ; by the ...
... things in very different words , so in several ages , countries , constitutions of laws and religion , the same thing seems to be meant by very different expressions ; what is called by the Stoics apathy , or dispassion ; by the ...
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The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures William Makepeace Thackeray Volledige weergave - 1853 |
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