Lives of the English PoetsCaasel et Cie, 1892 |
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Pagina 11
... performance cannot be denied to be vigorous and elegant . Having yet no public employment , he obtained ( in 1699 ) a pension of three hundred pounds a year , that he might be enabled to travel . He stayed a year at Blois , probably to ...
... performance cannot be denied to be vigorous and elegant . Having yet no public employment , he obtained ( in 1699 ) a pension of three hundred pounds a year , that he might be enabled to travel . He stayed a year at Blois , probably to ...
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... performance justified their con- fidence . They found , however , in their progress many auxiliaries . To attempt a single paper was no terrifying labour ; many pieces were offered , and many were re- ceived . Addison had enough of the ...
... performance justified their con- fidence . They found , however , in their progress many auxiliaries . To attempt a single paper was no terrifying labour ; many pieces were offered , and many were re- ceived . Addison had enough of the ...
Pagina 22
... performance which left the objections to the play in their full force , and therefore discovered more desire of vexing the critic than of defend- ing the poet . Addison , who was no stranger to the world , probably saw the selfishness ...
... performance which left the objections to the play in their full force , and therefore discovered more desire of vexing the critic than of defend- ing the poet . Addison , who was no stranger to the world , probably saw the selfishness ...
Pagina 39
... performance ; his poem is the work of a man not blinded by the dust of learning ; his images are not borrowed merely from books . The superiority which he confers upon his hero is not personal prowess and ' mighty bone , " but ...
... performance ; his poem is the work of a man not blinded by the dust of learning ; his images are not borrowed merely from books . The superiority which he confers upon his hero is not personal prowess and ' mighty bone , " but ...
Pagina 40
... performance by a like agency , is not a simile , but an exemplification . It is not a simile to say that the Thames waters fields , as the Po waters fields ; or that as Hecla vomits flames in Iceland , so Ætna vomits flames in Sicily ...
... performance by a like agency , is not a simile , but an exemplification . It is not a simile to say that the Thames waters fields , as the Po waters fields ; or that as Hecla vomits flames in Iceland , so Ætna vomits flames in Sicily ...
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acquaintance Addison afterwards allowed appeared calamities Cassell's Cato censure character Cheap Edition conduct considered contempt conversation death declared Delany discovered distress E. W. HORNUNG elegance endeavoured expected favour fortune friends friendship genius honour Illustrated imagined Ireland Juba justly kindness King letter likewise lived lodging London Lord Tyrconnel mankind manner MAX PEMBERTON mentioned merit mind misery misfortunes mother nature neglect never obliged observed occasion once opinion Orrery pamphlet panegyric passion pension performance perhaps pleasure poem poet poetical Pope pounds praise promise published queen R. L. STEVENSON reader reason received regard resentment resolution retired Richard Savage ROBERT STAWELL BALL SAMUEL JOHNSON Savage Savage's says Sempronius sent sentiments Sir Richard Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon Spectator STANLEY WEYMAN Steele suffered sufficient supposed Swift Syphax Tatler tenderness thought Tickell tion told tragedy verses virtue Vols Whigs write wrote