A Book of English Essays (1600-1900)Stanley Victor Makower, Basil H. Blackwell Oxford University Press, 1952 - 440 pages |
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Page 65
... talks in the same circle , and in the same round of chat which he has learned at one of the tables of this coffee ... talk that I was ever present at , which wanted nothing to make it excellent , but that there was no occasion for it ...
... talks in the same circle , and in the same round of chat which he has learned at one of the tables of this coffee ... talk that I was ever present at , which wanted nothing to make it excellent , but that there was no occasion for it ...
Page 94
... talk incessantly of beer , or linen , or a coat , and repeat the same sounds every morning , and some- times again in the afternoon , without any variation , except that they grow daily more importunate and clamorous , and raise their ...
... talk incessantly of beer , or linen , or a coat , and repeat the same sounds every morning , and some- times again in the afternoon , without any variation , except that they grow daily more importunate and clamorous , and raise their ...
Page 179
... talk desperately of being ruined and brought upon the parish ; and , in such moods , will not pay the smallest trades- man's bill , without violent altercation . He is in fact the most punctual and discontented paymaster in the world ...
... talk desperately of being ruined and brought upon the parish ; and , in such moods , will not pay the smallest trades- man's bill , without violent altercation . He is in fact the most punctual and discontented paymaster in the world ...
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SIR THOMAS OVERBURY 15811613 | 9 |
SIR THOMAS BROWNE 16051682 | 16 |
THOMAS FULLER 16081661 | 22 |
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