The English humourists of the eighteenth century

a series of lectures

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The English humourists of the eighteenth century

a series of lectures

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Publisher
Harper
Language
English
Pages
297

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Table of Contents

Swift
Congreve and Addison
Steele
Prior, Gay, and Pope
Hogarth, Smollett, and Fielding
Sterne and Goldsmith
Charity and humour.

Edition Notes

Published in
New York

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR935 .T5 1853b, PR935 .T5 1853

The Physical Object

Pagination
297 p. ;
Number of pages
297

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL583108M
Internet Archive
englishhumouris02thacgoog
LCCN
96172539
OCLC/WorldCat
1368798
LibraryThing
7625777

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL16297W

First Sentence

"IN treating of the English humourists of the past age, it is of the men and of their lives, rather than of their books, that I ask permission to speak to you; and in doing so, you are aware that I cannot hope to entertain you with a merely humourous or facetious story."

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