AddisonMacmillan, 1884 - 192 pagina's |
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Pagina 1
... scarcely any contemporary record remains . The formal narrative prefixed to his works by Tickell is , by that writer's own admission , little more than a bibliography . Steele , who might have told us more than any man about his boyhood ...
... scarcely any contemporary record remains . The formal narrative prefixed to his works by Tickell is , by that writer's own admission , little more than a bibliography . Steele , who might have told us more than any man about his boyhood ...
Pagina 13
... scarcely attempted to conceal his weariness when obliged to attend to affairs of State . He allowed the Dutch fleet to approach his capital and to burn his own ships of war on the Thames ; he sold Dunkirk to the French ; hardly any ...
... scarcely attempted to conceal his weariness when obliged to attend to affairs of State . He allowed the Dutch fleet to approach his capital and to burn his own ships of war on the Thames ; he sold Dunkirk to the French ; hardly any ...
Pagina 18
... scarcely an existence . No standard of female honour restrained the license of wit and debauchery . If the clergy were shocked at the propagation of ideas so contrary to the whole spirit of Christianity , their natural impulse to ...
... scarcely an existence . No standard of female honour restrained the license of wit and debauchery . If the clergy were shocked at the propagation of ideas so contrary to the whole spirit of Christianity , their natural impulse to ...
Pagina 20
... scarcely representative ; they had used the language for their own elevated purposes , without , however , attempt- ing to give it that balanced fineness and subtlety which makes it a fitting instrument for conveying the complex ideas ...
... scarcely representative ; they had used the language for their own elevated purposes , without , however , attempt- ing to give it that balanced fineness and subtlety which makes it a fitting instrument for conveying the complex ideas ...
Pagina 39
... scarcely have been more than forty years of age . Addison's compositions in the Musa Anglicana are eight in number . All of them are distinguished by the . ease and flow of the versification , but they are generally wanting in ...
... scarcely have been more than forty years of age . Addison's compositions in the Musa Anglicana are eight in number . All of them are distinguished by the . ease and flow of the versification , but they are generally wanting in ...
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