With this candour does the gentleman speak of himself and others. The same frankness runs through all his conversation. The military part of his life has furnished him with many adventures, in the relation of which he is very agreeable to the company... Select British Classics - Page 121803Full view - About this book
| Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1902 - 476 pages
...and others. The same frankness runs through all his conversation. The military part of his life has furnished him with many adventures, in the relation...him. But that our society may not appear a set of humorists, Unacquainted with the gallantries and pleasures of the age, ure have among us the gallant... | |
| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Eustace Budgell - 1906 - 284 pages
...and others. The same frankness runs through all his conversation. The military part of his life has furnished him with many adventures, in the relation...is very agreeable to the company; for he is never 20 overbearing, though accustomed to command men in the utmost degree below him; nor ever too obsequious,... | |
| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Eustace Budgell - 1906 - 284 pages
...and others. The same frankness runs through all his conversation. The military part of his life has furnished him with many adventures, in the relation...is very agreeable to the company; for he is never 20 overbearing, though accustomed to command men in the utmost degree below him; nor ever too obsequious,... | |
| Ludwig Herrig - English literature - 1906 - 844 pages
...others. The same 210 frankness runs through all his conversation. The military part of his life has furnished him with many adventures, in the relation of which he is very agreeable to the company; 215 for he is never overbearing, though accustomed to command men in the utmost degree below him, nor... | |
| Sir Richard Steele - English essays - 1907 - 392 pages
...and others. The same frankness runs through all his conversation. The military part of his life has furnished him with many adventures, in the relation...utmost degree below him ; nor ever too obsequious, from a habit of obeying men highly above him. But that our society may not appear a set of humourists, unacquainted... | |
| Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison - 1908 - 208 pages
...and others. The same frankness runs through all his conversation. The military part of his life has furnished him with many adventures, in the relation...utmost degree below him ; nor ever too obsequious, from a habit of obeying men highly above him. But that our society may not appear a set of humourists, unacquainted... | |
| Charles Edward Gough - 1909 - 226 pages
...Overbury but turned into the " Spectator's " own magnificent prose. Thus Steele says that Captain Sentry " is never over-bearing, though accustomed to command...utmost Degree below him ; nor ever too obsequious, from a Habit of obeying Men highly above him." 4 1 No. 108, July 4, 1711 (A.). « Mic. (Arber), No. 8, pp.... | |
| William Murison - English language - 1910 - 416 pages
...and others. The same frankness runs through all his conversation. The military part of his life has furnished him with many adventures, in the relation...him. But that our society may not appear a set of humorists unacquainted with the gallantries and pleasures of the age, we have among us the gallant... | |
| Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English literature - 1910 - 776 pages
...and others. The same frankness runs through all his conversation. The military part of his life has abilities in what we know already, but by hindering...Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean humourists,18 unacquainted with the gallantries and pleasures of the age, we have among us the gallant... | |
| Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - English literature - 1910 - 778 pages
...and others. The same frankness runs through all his conversation. The military part of his life has this be Or be not, I '11 not swear. PROS. You do yet taste Some subtiltiesii o' the isle, that will j of humourists,1" unacquainted with the gallantries and pleasures of the age, we have among us the... | |
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