English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century: Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith

Century Company, 1906 - 514 páginas

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pace	13

Ambition i i i	38

Duelling	43

Roast Beef at the Gate of Calais No 148	90

The Politician I55	98

Flattery as an art I	114

On advertisements	117

Adventures of a shilling	120

On temperance	230

Character of the salamanders	234

Satire on women	237

On education 24 I	241

The cries of London	244

Southwark Fair 173 179 226	246

The Spectators success	248

Pinmoney 25 I	251

Frozen words	124

Late hours	127

On longwinded people	130

On the art of growing old	133

ADDISON	137

From Thackerays English Humorists	139

The Spectator	147

Popular superstitions	149

Clubs	152

Io The uses of the Spectator	155

Effect of the supernatural on the imagination	158

Dress and show	162

Taste in High Life No 15	164

Italian opera	165

Choice of a profession	168

Letter from a valetudinarian	171

Reflections in Westminster Abbey	174

Office for the regulation of signs	177

The club of spectators	180

False wit and humour	183

A ladys library	186

French fashions	190

Marriage à la mode Plate IV 45	192

The coffeehouse	193

The Royal Exchange	196

The everlasting club	199

On physiognomy	202

Adventure of M Pontignan	208

Exercise of the fan 2	212

On pedantry	215

The man of pleasure	217

The Rakes Progress Plate II I5I	218

A womans man 22 I	221

Account of a grinningmatch	224

Account of a whistlingmatch	227

Letter from Sir John Envil	254

On waste of time	258

A young ladys journal of a week	262

Various advantages of the spectators	266

Humourous way of sorting companies	268

On compassion	272

On the death of the King of France	275

On female extravagances	278

Custom	281

On newswriters and readers	284

On true and false modesty	288

53o Marriage of Will Honeycomb	291

On retirement	293

STERNE AND GOLDSMITH	297

From Thackerays English Humorists	299

The Story of Le Fever from the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy	329

Introduction	389

Morning Letter II	390

Noon III	394

The character of the Man in Black with some	415

On the great number of old maids and bachelors	423

4I The behaviour of the congregation in St Pauls	433

The Election Plate II canvassing for votes V	434

The lookingglass of Lao a dream	439

A booksellers visit to the Chinese philosopher	443

The absurd taste for certain forms of literature	449

with that	455

The great exchange happiness for show Their	462

The description of a little great man	470

The preparations of both theatres for a winter cam	477

The ladies advised to get husbands A story	484

The influence of climate and soil upon the tempers	490

The passion for gaming among ladies ridiculed	501

Marriage à la mode Plate II CII	506

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Título	English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century: Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith English comédie humaine
Ilustrado por	William Hogarth
Colaboradores	Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith, William Makepeace Thackeray
Editor	Century Company, 1906
Procedencia del original	Universidad de Michigan
Digitalizado	30 Dic. 2006
Largo	514 páginas

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