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Pagina 2
... influence over the mercurial Steele , who could fascinate the haughty and cynical intellect of Swift , whose conver- sation , by the admission of his satirist Pope , had in it something more charming than that of any other man of whom ...
... influence over the mercurial Steele , who could fascinate the haughty and cynical intellect of Swift , whose conver- sation , by the admission of his satirist Pope , had in it something more charming than that of any other man of whom ...
Pagina 3
... great achievement to have pointed out to English society the beauties of Paradise Lost , unless it be remembered that 1 * the taste of the preceding generation still influenced Addi- son's 1. ] 3 LETTERS AFTER THE RESTORATION .
... great achievement to have pointed out to English society the beauties of Paradise Lost , unless it be remembered that 1 * the taste of the preceding generation still influenced Addi- son's 1. ] 3 LETTERS AFTER THE RESTORATION .
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William John Courthope. the taste of the preceding generation still influenced Addi- son's contemporaries , and that in that generation Cowley was accounted a greater poet than Milton . To estimate Addison at his real value we must ...
William John Courthope. the taste of the preceding generation still influenced Addi- son's contemporaries , and that in that generation Cowley was accounted a greater poet than Milton . To estimate Addison at his real value we must ...
Pagina 9
... influence in affairs which compensated for their inferiority in numbers . They lacked , however , what the country party possessed , a generous ideal of life . Though many of them were connected with the Presby- terian system , their ...
... influence in affairs which compensated for their inferiority in numbers . They lacked , however , what the country party possessed , a generous ideal of life . Though many of them were connected with the Presby- terian system , their ...
Pagina 17
... influence on the great body of the nation . The country gentlemen , busied on their estates , came seldom to town ; the citizens , the lawyers , and the members of the other professions steadily avoided the the- atre , and regarded with ...
... influence on the great body of the nation . The country gentlemen , busied on their estates , came seldom to town ; the citizens , the lawyers , and the members of the other professions steadily avoided the the- atre , and regarded with ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 124 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Pagina 182 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought philosophy down from heaven, to inhabit among men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffee-houses.
Pagina 128 - While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise— Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying all abroad?
Pagina 3 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Pagina 91 - I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Pagina 64 - And taught the dreadful battle where to rage. — So when an Angel by Divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land — Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past — Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Pagina 172 - It is not uncommon for those who have grown wise by the labour of others to add a little of their own, and overlook their masters. Addison is now despised by some who perhaps would never have seen his defects but by the lights which he afforded them.
Pagina 137 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer, Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike ; Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Pagina 167 - He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world, only as he thinks the world is in the wrong.
Pagina 32 - As true wit consists in the resemblance of ideas, and false wit in the resemblance of words, according to the foregoing instances ; there is another kind of wit which consists partly in the resemblance of ideas, and partly in the resemblance of words, which for distinction sake I shall call mixt wit.