AddisonMacmillan, 1919 - 197 pagina's |
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Pagina 1
... Swift . Pope , by the publication of his own correspond- ence , has enabled us , in a way that he never intended , to understand the strange moral twist which distorted a nature by no means devoid of noble instincts . Johnson was ...
... Swift . Pope , by the publication of his own correspond- ence , has enabled us , in a way that he never intended , to understand the strange moral twist which distorted a nature by no means devoid of noble instincts . Johnson was ...
Pagina 2
... 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 been chosen king if he wished it ; such a man , though to the ...
... 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 been chosen king if he wished it ; such a man , though to the ...
Pagina 25
... Swift records in her honour that she was " a kind of wit , and very like her brother . ” may readily believe that a writer so lively as Lancelot would have had clever children , but Steele was perhaps carried away by the zeal of ...
... Swift records in her honour that she was " a kind of wit , and very like her brother . ” may readily believe that a writer so lively as Lancelot would have had clever children , but Steele was perhaps carried away by the zeal of ...
Pagina 35
... Swift would have been advanced to a bishopric as a reward for his political services if it had not been for the prejudice entertained towards him by Queen Anne ; Boulter , rector of St. Saviour's , South- wark , having made himself ...
... Swift would have been advanced to a bishopric as a reward for his political services if it had not been for the prejudice entertained towards him by Queen Anne ; Boulter , rector of St. Saviour's , South- wark , having made himself ...
Pagina 39
... Swift , Pope , Arbuthnot , and Fielding , developed it in various forms ; but Addison's Latin poem is perhaps the first composition in which the fine fancy and invention , after- wards shown in the Rape of the Lock and Gulliver's ...
... Swift , Pope , Arbuthnot , and Fielding , developed it in various forms ; but Addison's Latin poem is perhaps the first composition in which the fine fancy and invention , after- wards shown in the Rape of the Lock and Gulliver's ...
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