The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781417967087
Subjects: Literature: History & Criticism; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: IN treating of the English humourists of the past age, it is of the men and of their lives, rather than of their books, that I ask permission to speak to you; and in doing so, you are aware that I cannot hope to entertain you with a merely humourous or facetious story.