Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges

By William Makepeace Thackeray

Release : 1863-01-01

Genre : Literary Criticism, Books, Fiction & Literature

Kind : ebook

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It is still, perhaps, in possession of a success rather of esteem than of affection. A company of young men and maidens to whom it was not long ago submitted pronounced it (with one or two exceptions) inferior as a work of humour. The hitting of little Harry in the eye with a potato was, they admitted, humorous, but hardly anything else.

Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges

By William Makepeace Thackeray

Release : 1863-01-01

Genre : Literary Criticism, Books, Fiction & Literature

Kind : ebook

(0 ratings)
It is still, perhaps, in possession of a success rather of esteem than of affection. A company of young men and maidens to whom it was not long ago submitted pronounced it (with one or two exceptions) inferior as a work of humour. The hitting of little Harry in the eye with a potato was, they admitted, humorous, but hardly anything else.

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