The book The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century was written by author Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 Here you can read free online of The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century a good or bad book?
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Besides being very kind, lazy, and good-natured, this boy went invariably into debt with the tart-woman ; ran out of bounds, and entered into pecuniary, or rather promissory, en- gagements with the neighboring lollipop-vendors and piemen- exhibited an early fondness and capacity for drinking mum and- sack, and borrowed from all his comrades who had money to lend. I have no .sort of authority for the statements here made of Steele's early life ; but if the child is father of the man, the father ...of young Steele of Merton, who left Oxford without tak- ing a degree, and entered the Life Guards — the father of Cap- tain Steele of Lucas's Fusiliers, who got his company through the patronage of my Lord Cutts — the father of Mr. Steele tlie Commissioner of Stamps, the editor of the Gazette, the Tatkr, and Spectatoj'. the expelled Member of Parliament, and the au- thor of the " Tender Husband" and the " Conscious Lovers ; " if man and boy resembled each other, Dick Steele the school- boy must liavebeen one of the most generous, good-for-nothing, amiable little creatures that ever conjugated the verb tupto, I beat, tuptomai, I am whipped, in any school in Great Britain.
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