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Pagina 1
... century the one who provides the biographer with the scantiest materials is Addison . In his Journal to Stella , his social verses , and his letters to his friends , we have a vivid picture of those relations with women and that ...
... century the one who provides the biographer with the scantiest materials is Addison . In his Journal to Stella , his social verses , and his letters to his friends , we have a vivid picture of those relations with women and that ...
Pagina 3
... century , speaking of the statue erected to Addison in Westminster Abbey , " was due to the unsullied statesman , to the accomplished scholar , to the master of pure English eloquence , to the consummate painter of life and manners . It ...
... century , speaking of the statue erected to Addison in Westminster Abbey , " was due to the unsullied statesman , to the accomplished scholar , to the master of pure English eloquence , to the consummate painter of life and manners . It ...
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... century . But here again we are met by an initial difficulty , because it has become almost a com- monplace of contemporary criticism to represent the eighteenth century as a period of sheer destruction . It is tacitly assumed by a ...
... century . But here again we are met by an initial difficulty , because it has become almost a com- monplace of contemporary criticism to represent the eighteenth century as a period of sheer destruction . It is tacitly assumed by a ...
Pagina 5
... century , composed in a consciously destructive spirit , has taken its place among the acknowledged classics of the lan- guage . Even the Tale of a Tub is to be regarded as a satire upon the aberrations of theologians from right reason ...
... century , composed in a consciously destructive spirit , has taken its place among the acknowledged classics of the lan- guage . Even the Tale of a Tub is to be regarded as a satire upon the aberrations of theologians from right reason ...
Pagina 6
... centuries , adhering in this particular as in all else to our old settled maxim never entirely nor at once to depart from antiquity . We found these institutions on the whole favourable to morality and discipline , and we thought they ...
... centuries , adhering in this particular as in all else to our old settled maxim never entirely nor at once to depart from antiquity . We found these institutions on the whole favourable to morality and discipline , and we thought they ...
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