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

Century Company, 1906 - 514 pagine

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Duelling	43

Snuff	45

Tom Wildair	47

Fashionable affectations	49

Marriage of Jenny Distaff	52

Scene of country etiquette	56

A dancingmaster practising by book	59

Applications for permission to use canes etc	61

Mrs Tranquillus	66

The petticoat	70

On the lottery	73

The prude and the coquette	76

Trial of the winebrewers	80

Our club	84

Tom Varnish	87

Kickshaws	89

Beauty unadorned	93

The political upholsterer	96

The Politician 155	98

Tom Folio	99

A visit and letter from the upholsterer	102

The critic	104

Memories of his childhood 35	108

The Country Inn Yard 192	108

Flattery as an art	114

On advertisements	117

Adventures of a shilling I 20	120

Frozen words	124

Late hours	127

Modern Midnight Conversation 263	128

On longwinded people	130

On the art of growing old	133

ADDISON From Thackerays English Humorists	137

The Spectator	147

Popular superstitions	149

Clubs	152

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 Rakes Progress Plate II 151	218

A womans man	221

Account of a grinningmatch	224

Account of a whistlingmatch	227

On temperance	230

Character of the salamanders	234

Satire on women	237

On education	241

The cries of London	244

The Spectators success	248

Pinmoney	251

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

Marriage of Will Honeycomb	291

On retirement	293

STERNE AND GOLDSMITH	297

From Thackerays English Humorists	299

ILLUSTRATING THE CITIZEN OF THE WORLD	320

The Story of Le Fever from the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy	325

Saunterings in France Book VII from the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy	339

Morning Letter II	390

Noon III	394

The Election Plate II canvassing for votes V	400

The Sleeping Congregation XLI	434

The lookingglass of Lao a dream	439

A booksellers visit to the Chinese philosopher	443

of his wife his house and furniture	455

France Plate I LXXVIII	476

The ladies advised to get husbands A story	484

The influence of climate and soil upon the tempers	490

A visit from the little Beau The indulgence with	498

The passion for gaming among ladies ridiculed	500

The Election Plate I the Entertainment CXII	506

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Titolo	English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century: Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith The English Comédie humaine
Illustrato da	William Hogarth
Collaboratori	Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith, William Makepeace Thackeray
Editore	Century Company, 1906
Provenienza dell'originale	la University of Michigan
Digitalizzato	30 dic 2006
Lunghezza	514 pagine

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