Critical and Historical Essays: Diary and letters of Madam d'Arblay. The life and writings of Addison. The Earl of Chatham. IndexB. Tauchnitz jun., 1850 |
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... Johnson had pronounced her superior to Fielding , when Rogers was still a schoolboy , and Southey still in petticoats . Yet more strange did it seem that we should just have lost one whose name had been widely celebrated before any body ...
... Johnson had pronounced her superior to Fielding , when Rogers was still a schoolboy , and Southey still in petticoats . Yet more strange did it seem that we should just have lost one whose name had been widely celebrated before any body ...
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... Johnson began to examine the shelves . But in the whole collection there was only a single novel , Fielding's Amelia . An education , however , which to most girls would have been useless , but which suited Fanny's mind better than ela ...
... Johnson began to examine the shelves . But in the whole collection there was only a single novel , Fielding's Amelia . An education , however , which to most girls would have been useless , but which suited Fanny's mind better than ela ...
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... Johnson's heart by sounding with honest zeal the praises of the English Dictionary . In London the two friends met frequently , and agreed most harmoniously . One tie , indeed , was wanting to their mutual attachment . Burney loved his ...
... Johnson's heart by sounding with honest zeal the praises of the English Dictionary . In London the two friends met frequently , and agreed most harmoniously . One tie , indeed , was wanting to their mutual attachment . Burney loved his ...
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... Johnson , Richardson , Fielding , are all highly esteemed by the great body of in- telligent and well informed men . But Gray could see no merit in Rasselas ; and Johnson could see nó merit in the Bard . Fielding thought Richardson a ...
... Johnson , Richardson , Fielding , are all highly esteemed by the great body of in- telligent and well informed men . But Gray could see no merit in Rasselas ; and Johnson could see nó merit in the Bard . Fielding thought Richardson a ...
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... Johnson's Irene , for example , or Goldsmith's Good- natured Man . Had Crisp been wise , he would have thought himself happy in having purchased self - knowledge so cheap . He would have relinquished , without vain repinings , the hope ...
... Johnson's Irene , for example , or Goldsmith's Good- natured Man . Had Crisp been wise , he would have thought himself happy in having purchased self - knowledge so cheap . He would have relinquished , without vain repinings , the hope ...
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Addison admiration Æneid appeared became Bedfords Boileau Bute called Cecilia character Charles Townshend Chatham chief court Duke of Cumberland Earl eloquence eminently England English Essays Evelina fame favour favourite feeling Frances Burney French friends genius George Grenville George the Second George the Third Grenville habit heart honour House of Bourbon House of Commons House of Hanover humour Johnson King King's known lady Latin letter literary lived London Lord Rockingham Macaulay Madame D'Arblay Majesty manner ment mind ministers ministry Miss Burney nature never Parliament passed person Pitt Pitt's poet political Pope praise Prince Princess Queen reign royal Samuel Crisp scarcely seemed soon Spectator spirit Stamp Act statesman Steele strong style Swift talents Tatler temper Temple thing thought Tickell tion Tories truth verses Walpole Whig party whole write written young
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Pagina 120 - to make his essays classical. For never, not even by Dryden, not even by Temple, had the English language been written with such sweetness, grace, and facility. But this was the smallest part of Addison's praise. Had he clothed his thoughts in the half French style of Horace Waipole,
Pagina 120 - or in the half Latin style of Dr. Johnson, or in the half German jargon of the present day. his genius would have triumphed over all faults of manner. As a moral satirist he stands unrivalled. If ever the best Tatlers and Spectators were equalled in their own kind, we should be inclined to
Pagina 148 - had .more of the original. The town gave a decided preference to Pope's. We do not think it worth while to settle such a question of precedence. Neither of the rivals can be said to have translated the Iliad, unless, indeed, the word translation be used in the sense which it bears in the Midsummer Night's
Pagina 83 - and of the Opposition have been Professors, Historians, Journalists, Poets. The influence of the literary class in England, during the generation which followed the Revolution, was great; but by no means so great as it has lately been in France. For, in England, the aristocracy of intellect had to contend with a powerful and
Pagina 111 - so as to chain the attention of every hearer. Nor were Addison's great colloquial powers more admirable than the courtesy and softness of heart which appeared in his conversation. At the same time, it would be too much to say that he was wholly devoid of the malice which is,
Pagina 137 - power of turning either an absurd book or an absurd man into ridicule was unrivalled. Addison, however, serenely Conscious of his superiority, looked with pity on his assailant, whose temper, naturally irritable and gloomy, had been soured by want, by controversy, and by literary failures. But among the young candidates for Addison's
Pagina 103 - produced by this Narrative was disappointment. The crowd of readers who expected politics and scandal, speculations on the projects of Victor Amadeus, and anecdotes about the jollities of convents and the amours of cardinals and nuns, were confounded by finding that the writer's mind was much more occupied by the war between the Trojans
Pagina 148 - of a College at Oxford, and must be supposed to have been able to construe the Iliad ; and he was a better versifier than his friend. We are not aware that Pope pretended to have discovered any turns of expression peculiar to Addison. Had such turns of expression been discovered, they would be
Pagina 129 - to be found in that great city, has daily listened to the wits of Will's, has smoked with the philosophers of the Grecian, and has mingled with the parsons at Child's, and with the politicians at the St. James's. In the morning, he often listens to the hum of
Pagina 160 - alluded to his approaching end in words so manly, so cheerful, and so tender, that it is difficult to read them without tears. At the same time he earnestly recommended the interests of Tickell to the care of Craggs. Within a few hours of the time at which this dedication was written, Addison sent to beg