Lives of the English Poets: Abraham Cowley. Sir John Denham. John Milton. Samuel Butler. Earl of Rochester. Earl of Roscommon. Thomas Otway. Edmund Waller. John Dryden. John Pomfret. Earl of Dorset. George Stepney. John Philips. William Walsh. Edmund Smith. Richard Duke. William King. Thomas Sprat. Earl of Halifax. Thomas Parnell. Samuel Garth. Nicholas Rowe. Joseph Addison. John Hughes. John Sheffield, duke of Buckinghamshire. Matthew PriorOxford University Press, 1952 |
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Pagina 400
... Addison never considered Steele as a rival ; but Steele lived , as he confesses , under an habitual subjection to the predominating genius of Addison , whom he always mentioned with reverence , and treated with obsequiousness . Addison ...
... Addison never considered Steele as a rival ; but Steele lived , as he confesses , under an habitual subjection to the predominating genius of Addison , whom he always mentioned with reverence , and treated with obsequiousness . Addison ...
Pagina 405
... Addison supplied a pro- logue . When the marquis of Wharton was appointed lord lieutenant of Ireland , Addison attended him as his secretary ; and was made keeper of the records in Birming- ham's Tower , with a salary of three hundred ...
... Addison supplied a pro- logue . When the marquis of Wharton was appointed lord lieutenant of Ireland , Addison attended him as his secretary ; and was made keeper of the records in Birming- ham's Tower , with a salary of three hundred ...
Pagina 416
... Addison more vigorously exerted , and on none did the superiority of his powers more evidently appear . His Trial of Count Tariff , written to expose the Treaty of Commerce with France , lived no longer than the question that produced ...
... Addison more vigorously exerted , and on none did the superiority of his powers more evidently appear . His Trial of Count Tariff , written to expose the Treaty of Commerce with France , lived no longer than the question that produced ...
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Lives of the English Poets: Abraham Cowley. Sir John Denham. John Milton ... Samuel Johnson Fragmentweergave - 1952 |
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