Identifier: englishhumorists00stee (find matches)
Title: English humorists of the eighteenth century : Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Steele, Richard, Sir, 1672-1729 Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719 Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768 Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774 Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, illus
Subjects: English literature English wit and humor
Publisher: New York : The Century co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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There were three of uswho still held up our heads, and did all we could to make ourjourney agreeable; but, to my shame be it spoken, about threemiles on this side Exeter I was taken with an unaccountable fit ofsuUenness, that hung upon me for above threescore miles; whetherit were for want of respect, or from an accidental tread upon myfoot, or from a fooHsh maids calling me The old Gentleman, Icannot tell. In short, there was but one who kept his good humorto the Lands End. There was another coach that went along with us, in which IHkewise observed, that there were many secret jealousies, heart-burnings, and animosities: for when we joined companies at night,I could not but take notice, that the passengers neglected their owncompany, and studied how to make themselves esteemed by us,who were altogether strangers to them: till at length they grew soweU acquainted with us, that they liked us as little as they did oneanother. When I reflect upon this journey, I often fancy it to be a108
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THE TATLER picture of human life, in respect to the several friendships, con-tracts, and alliances that are made and dissolved in the severalperiods of it. The most dehghtful and most lasting engagementsare generally those which pass between man and woman; and yetupon what trifles are they weakened, or entirely broken! Some-times the parties fly asunder even in the midst of courtship, andsometimes grow cool in the very honey-month. Some separatebefore the first child, and some after the fifth; others continue goodtill thirty, others till forty; while some few, whose souls are of anhappier make, and better fitted to one another, travel on togetherto the end of their joiuney, in a continual intercourse of kind officesand mutual endearments. When we, therefore, choose our companions for life, if we hopeto keep both them and ourselves in good humour to the last stageof it, we must be extremely careful in the choice we make, as wellas in the conduct on our own part. When the persons to who

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