The Spectator: With Notes and a General Index, Volumes 1-2J. J. Woodward, 1832 - 895 pages |
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... Humour - Genealogy of Humour 36 Letters from the Play - house , on the Dis- mission of inanimate Performers 37 Catalogue of a Lady's Library - Charac- ter of Leonora Steele Addison 38 On Affectation - Vanity Steele ty and Virtue 7 ...
... Humour - Genealogy of Humour 36 Letters from the Play - house , on the Dis- mission of inanimate Performers 37 Catalogue of a Lady's Library - Charac- ter of Leonora Steele Addison 38 On Affectation - Vanity Steele ty and Virtue 7 ...
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... humour and please men in their vices and follies . The great enemy of mankind , notwithstanding his wit and angelic faculties , is the most odious being in the whole creation . ' He goes on soon after to say , very generously , that he ...
... humour and please men in their vices and follies . The great enemy of mankind , notwithstanding his wit and angelic faculties , is the most odious being in the whole creation . ' He goes on soon after to say , very generously , that he ...
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... humour her so far as to take them out of that figure , and place them side by side . What the absurdity was which I had committed I did not know , but I suppose there was some traditionary superstition in it ; and therefore , in ...
... humour her so far as to take them out of that figure , and place them side by side . What the absurdity was which I had committed I did not know , but I suppose there was some traditionary superstition in it ; and therefore , in ...
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... humour- ously called woolsack , bedpresser and hill of flesh ; Harry , a starveling , an elves - skin , a sheath , a bow - case , and a tuck . There is , in several incidents of the conversation be- tween them , the jest still kept up ...
... humour- ously called woolsack , bedpresser and hill of flesh ; Harry , a starveling , an elves - skin , a sheath , a bow - case , and a tuck . There is , in several incidents of the conversation be- tween them , the jest still kept up ...
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... humour : ' Iras et verba locant . ' ' Men that hire out their words and an- ger : ' that are more or less passionate ac- cording as they are paid for it , and allow their client a quantity of wrath proportiona- ble to the fee which they ...
... humour : ' Iras et verba locant . ' ' Men that hire out their words and an- ger : ' that are more or less passionate ac- cording as they are paid for it , and allow their client a quantity of wrath proportiona- ble to the fee which they ...
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