Essays--Fielding: Smollett: Hazlitt: Burns: Byron's World: 'Pippin': Othello: 'T.E.B.': Old England: Balzac: Hugo--Macmillan and Company, Limited, 1921 - 431 strán (strany) |
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... scarce possible to doubt that Mrs. Rhodes , who , at the time of affidaviting , was a damsel of fifteen ( she died in 1783 , being then some three and seventy years old ) , shared , if she did not encourage , the delusion ; for it is a ...
... scarce possible to doubt that Mrs. Rhodes , who , at the time of affidaviting , was a damsel of fifteen ( she died in 1783 , being then some three and seventy years old ) , shared , if she did not encourage , the delusion ; for it is a ...
Strana 29
... scarce have lived , and must certainly , if one refuse him his Bellastons and his Matthewses- ( as , of course , in the interests of Purity and Art and Victorian - England one does ) -have taken for a livelihood to hackney - coaching ...
... scarce have lived , and must certainly , if one refuse him his Bellastons and his Matthewses- ( as , of course , in the interests of Purity and Art and Victorian - England one does ) -have taken for a livelihood to hackney - coaching ...
Strana 48
... scarce credible -then must Smollett have had a most bitter boy- hood : a boyhood , truly , which would go far to account for the high - handed , hard - hitting , indis- criminating insolence and aggressiveness of his later years . By ...
... scarce credible -then must Smollett have had a most bitter boy- hood : a boyhood , truly , which would go far to account for the high - handed , hard - hitting , indis- criminating insolence and aggressiveness of his later years . By ...
Strana 87
... scarce any circulation , cost him his friendship with Wilkes , and at last died in his hands , in cir- cumstances that left him ' stung , aggravated , and humiliated beyond endurance ( HANNAY ) . He was in wretched health at the time of ...
... scarce any circulation , cost him his friendship with Wilkes , and at last died in his hands , in cir- cumstances that left him ' stung , aggravated , and humiliated beyond endurance ( HANNAY ) . He was in wretched health at the time of ...
Strana 90
... scarce fail to be amusing : even as Sir Lancelot , were he anything but an impossible travesty of Don Quixote might , it is reasonable to suppose , have proved himself a more or less interesting hero . But the initial blunder was ...
... scarce fail to be amusing : even as Sir Lancelot , were he anything but an impossible travesty of Don Quixote might , it is reasonable to suppose , have proved himself a more or less interesting hero . But the initial blunder was ...
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Strana 129 - A Comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. By William Whitehead, Esq. ; Poet Laureat. London : Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall ; and sold by J. Hinxman, in Pater-noster-row. MDCCLXII.