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Pagina 3
... style , familiar but not coarse , and elegant but not ostentatious , must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison . " " Such a mark of national respect , " says Macaulay , the best representative of middle - class opinion in ...
... style , familiar but not coarse , and elegant but not ostentatious , must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison . " " Such a mark of national respect , " says Macaulay , the best representative of middle - class opinion in ...
Pagina 7
... style . It was the task of Addison to carry on the reconcil- ing traditions of our literature . It is his praise to have accomplished his task under conditions far more difficult than any that his predecessors had experienced . What ...
... style . It was the task of Addison to carry on the reconcil- ing traditions of our literature . It is his praise to have accomplished his task under conditions far more difficult than any that his predecessors had experienced . What ...
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... style in English literature . Before them English prose had been employed , no doubt , with music and majesty by many writers ; but the style of these is scarcely representative ; they had used the language for their own elevated ...
... style in English literature . Before them English prose had been employed , no doubt , with music and majesty by many writers ; but the style of these is scarcely representative ; they had used the language for their own elevated ...
Pagina 21
... style , seemed unaware that these qualities could be put to any other use than the mitiga- tion of an intolerable ennui . On the other side , the rising power of Democracy found its representatives in austere Republicans opposed to all ...
... style , seemed unaware that these qualities could be put to any other use than the mitiga- tion of an intolerable ennui . On the other side , the rising power of Democracy found its representatives in austere Republicans opposed to all ...
Pagina 23
... style , a vein of allegory runs through the narrative of the Revolutions of the Kingdoms of Fez and Morocco , which must have had a piquant flavour for the orthodox Eng- lish reader of that day . Recollections of the Protectorate would ...
... style , a vein of allegory runs through the narrative of the Revolutions of the Kingdoms of Fez and Morocco , which must have had a piquant flavour for the orthodox Eng- lish reader of that day . Recollections of the Protectorate would ...
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