| 1778 - 342 pàgines
...requeft, in revenge for interrupting him from being a companion to put on the character of a jefter. What was peculiarly excellent in this memorable companion...only hit the figure of their faces, and manner of their geftures, but he would in his narration fall into their very way of thinking, and this when he... | |
| Thomas Davies - 1784 - 524 pàgines
...qualities of the tavern man Let us us quote what Steele fays of his fuperlative excellence in mimicry. c What was peculiarly excellent in this memorable companion...not only hit the figure of their faces and manner of their geilureSj but he would, in his "narrations, fall into their way of thinking; and this, when he... | |
| Thomas Davies - 1784 - 344 pàgines
...held up to others. mimicry. ' What was peculiarly excellent in this memorable companion was, thar, in the accounts he gave of perfons and fentiments,...not only hit the figure of their faces and manner of their geftures, but he would, in his narrations, fill into their way of thinking ; and this, when lie... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 314 pàgines
...request, in revenge for interrupting him from being a companion to put on the character of a jester. What was peculiarly excellent in this memorable companion, was, that in the accounts he gave of persons and sentiments, he did not only hit the figure of their faces, and manner of their gestures,... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - 304 pàgines
...request, in revenge for interrupting him from being a companion to put on the character of a jester. What was peculiarly excellent in this memorable companion, was, that in the accounts he gave of persons and sentiments, he did not only hit the figure of their faces, and manner of their gestures,... | |
| 1803 - 376 pàgines
...request, in revenge for interrupting him from being a companion to put on the character of a jester. / What was peculiarly excellent in this memorable companion, was that in the accounts he gave of persons and sentiments, he did not only hit the figure of their faces, and manner of their gestures,... | |
| 1803 - 420 pàgines
...excellent in this memorable companion, was, that in the accounts he gave of persons and sentiments, he did not only hit the figure of their faces, and manner of their gestures, but he would in his narration fall into their very way of thinking, and this when he... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 314 pàgines
...request, in revenge for interrupting him from being a companion to put on the character of a jester. What was peculiarly excellent in this memorable companion, was, that in the accounts he gave of persons and sentiments, he did not only hit the figure of their faces, and manner of their gestures,... | |
| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 314 pàgines
...excellent in this memorable companion, was, that in the accounts he gave of persons and sentiments, he did not only hit the figure of their faces, and manner of their gestures, but he would in his narration fall into their very way of thinking, and this when he... | |
| James Ferguson - 1819 - 310 pàgines
...request, in revenge for interrupting him from being a companion to put on the character of a jester. What was peculiarly excellent in this memorable companion, was, that in the accounts he gave of persons and sentiments, he did not only hit the figure of their faces, and manner of their gestures,... | |
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