AddisonGood Press, 13 dec 2019 - 282 pagina's "Addison" by William John Courthope Joseph Addison was an English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was the eldest son of The Reverend Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine. Though he's often overlooked compared to other figures in English history, he was seminal in shaping the way society evolved. Courthope honors his life and memory in this concise but comprehensive biography. |
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... opinion of himself . This absence of dramatic incident in Addison's life would lead us naturally to conclude that he was deficient in the energy and passion which cause a powerful nature to leave a mark upon its age . Yet such a ...
... opinion of himself . This absence of dramatic incident in Addison's life would lead us naturally to conclude that he was deficient in the energy and passion which cause a powerful nature to leave a mark upon its age . Yet such a ...
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... Opinion in the eighteenth century. But here again we are met by an initial difficulty, because it has become almost a commonplace of contemporary criticism to represent the eighteenth century as a period of sheer destruction. It is ...
... Opinion in the eighteenth century. But here again we are met by an initial difficulty, because it has become almost a commonplace of contemporary criticism to represent the eighteenth century as a period of sheer destruction. It is ...
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... opinions , is also the most severely classical in his style . It was the task of Addison to carry on the reconciling traditions of our literature . It is his praise to have accomplished his task under conditions far more more difficult ...
... opinions , is also the most severely classical in his style . It was the task of Addison to carry on the reconciling traditions of our literature . It is his praise to have accomplished his task under conditions far more more difficult ...
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... opinion by a conscious effort of reason and persuasion. Before the Civil Wars there had been at least no visible breach in the principle of Authority in Church and State. At the beginning of the eighteenth century constituted authority ...
... opinion by a conscious effort of reason and persuasion. Before the Civil Wars there had been at least no visible breach in the principle of Authority in Church and State. At the beginning of the eighteenth century constituted authority ...
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... opinion divided the country, to one of which a man was obliged to surrender himself if he wished to enjoy the ... opinions, but respectable from the constancy with which he maintained them, had ruled over them as a taskmaster, and had ...
... opinion divided the country, to one of which a man was obliged to surrender himself if he wished to enjoy the ... opinions, but respectable from the constancy with which he maintained them, had ruled over them as a taskmaster, and had ...
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