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... Steele , who might have told us more than any man about his boyhood and his manner of life in London , had become estranged from his old friend B before his death . No writer has taken the trouble CHAPTER I THE STATE OF ENGLISH SOCIETY ...
... Steele , who might have told us more than any man about his boyhood and his manner of life in London , had become estranged from his old friend B before his death . No writer has taken the trouble CHAPTER I THE STATE OF ENGLISH SOCIETY ...
Pagina 2
... Steele ; who could fascinate the haughty and cynical intellect of Swift ; whose conversation , by the admission of his satirist Pope , had in it something more charming than that of any other man ; of whom it was said that he might have ...
... Steele ; who could fascinate the haughty and cynical intellect of Swift ; whose conversation , by the admission of his satirist Pope , had in it something more charming than that of any other man ; of whom it was said that he might have ...
Pagina 16
... Steele in the Spectator upon Etherege's Man of the Mode : - " It cannot be denied but that the negligence of every- thing which engages the attention of the sober and valuable part of mankind appears very well drawn in this piece . But ...
... Steele in the Spectator upon Etherege's Man of the Mode : - " It cannot be denied but that the negligence of every- thing which engages the attention of the sober and valuable part of mankind appears very well drawn in this piece . But ...
Pagina 25
... Steele was perhaps carried away by the zeal of friendship or the love of epigram when he said in his dedication to the Drummer : " Mr. Dean Addison left behind him four children , each of whom , for excellent talents and singular perfec ...
... Steele was perhaps carried away by the zeal of friendship or the love of epigram when he said in his dedication to the Drummer : " Mr. Dean Addison left behind him four children , each of whom , for excellent talents and singular perfec ...
Pagina 36
... Steele , who was better acquainted with his friend's private history , on reading Tickell's Memoir , addressed a letter to Congreve on the subject , in which he says : — These , you know very well , were not the reasons which 66 made Mr ...
... Steele , who was better acquainted with his friend's private history , on reading Tickell's Memoir , addressed a letter to Congreve on the subject , in which he says : — These , you know very well , were not the reasons which 66 made Mr ...
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