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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... turned dancing master , and settled in Norfolk . James struck off the Mac from the be- ginning of his name , and set up as a portrait painter at Chester . Here he had a son named Charles , well known as the author of the History of ...
... turned dancing master , and settled in Norfolk . James struck off the Mac from the be- ginning of his name , and set up as a portrait painter at Chester . Here he had a son named Charles , well known as the author of the History of ...
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... turned to the many sources of happiness which he still possessed . Had he been , on the other hand , an unfeeling and unblushing dunce , he would have gone on writing scores of bad tragedies in defiance of censure and derision . But he ...
... turned to the many sources of happiness which he still possessed . Had he been , on the other hand , an unfeeling and unblushing dunce , he would have gone on writing scores of bad tragedies in defiance of censure and derision . But he ...
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... turned even a strong head , and corrupted even a generous and affectionate nature . But , in the Diary , we can find no trace of any feeling inconsistent with a truly modest and amiable dispo- sition . There is , indeed , abundant proof ...
... turned even a strong head , and corrupted even a generous and affectionate nature . But , in the Diary , we can find no trace of any feeling inconsistent with a truly modest and amiable dispo- sition . There is , indeed , abundant proof ...
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... turned from her dramatic schemes to an un- dertaking far better suited to her talents . She determined to write a new tale , on a plan excellently contrived for the display of the powers in which her superiority to other writers lay ...
... turned from her dramatic schemes to an un- dertaking far better suited to her talents . She determined to write a new tale , on a plan excellently contrived for the display of the powers in which her superiority to other writers lay ...
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... turned . She , looking back with tender regret on all that she had left , and forward with anxiety and terror to the new life on which she was entering , was unable to speak or stand ; and he went on his way home- ward rejoicing in her ...
... turned . She , looking back with tender regret on all that she had left , and forward with anxiety and terror to the new life on which she was entering , was unable to speak or stand ; and he went on his way home- ward rejoicing in her ...
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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