Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 5B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pagina's |
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Pagina 109
... Steele , an excellent judge of lively .conversation , said , that the conversation of Addison was at once the most polite , and the most mirthful , that could be imagined ; that it was Terence and Catullus in one , heightened by an ...
... Steele , an excellent judge of lively .conversation , said , that the conversation of Addison was at once the most polite , and the most mirthful , that could be imagined ; that it was Terence and Catullus in one , heightened by an ...
Pagina 112
... Steele and Thomas Tickell . Steele had known Addison from childhood . They had been together at the Charter House and at Oxford ; but cir- cumstances had then , for a time , separated them widely . Steele had left college without taking ...
... Steele and Thomas Tickell . Steele had known Addison from childhood . They had been together at the Charter House and at Oxford ; but cir- cumstances had then , for a time , separated them widely . Steele had left college without taking ...
Pagina 113
... Steele's negligence , or dishonesty , provoked Addison to repay himself by the help of a bailiff . We cannot join with Miss Aikin in rejecting this story . Johnson heard it from Savage , who heard it from Steele . Few private ...
... Steele's negligence , or dishonesty , provoked Addison to repay himself by the help of a bailiff . We cannot join with Miss Aikin in rejecting this story . Johnson heard it from Savage , who heard it from Steele . Few private ...
Pagina 114
... Steele , and finds scores of gentlemen and ladies assembled . The fiddles are playing . The table is groaning under Champagne , Burgundy , and pyramids of sweetmeats . Is it strange that a man whose kindness is thus abused , should send ...
... Steele , and finds scores of gentlemen and ladies assembled . The fiddles are playing . The table is groaning under Champagne , Burgundy , and pyramids of sweetmeats . Is it strange that a man whose kindness is thus abused , should send ...
Pagina 115
... prove himself a man of genius , and to enrich our literature with compositions which will live as long as the English language . In the spring of 1709 Steele formed a literary project 8 * LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ADDISON . 115 .
... prove himself a man of genius , and to enrich our literature with compositions which will live as long as the English language . In the spring of 1709 Steele formed a literary project 8 * LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ADDISON . 115 .
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