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... admiration of future ages . Your equal and placid temper , your variety of con- versation , your true politeness , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarged hospitality which has long made your house a common ...
... admiration of future ages . Your equal and placid temper , your variety of con- versation , your true politeness , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarged hospitality which has long made your house a common ...
Pagina 228
... admiration ; and his precepts are im- pressed upon them by his commanding eloquence . Addison's style , like a light wine , pleases every- body from the first . Johnson's , like a liquor of more body , seems too strong at first , but ...
... admiration ; and his precepts are im- pressed upon them by his commanding eloquence . Addison's style , like a light wine , pleases every- body from the first . Johnson's , like a liquor of more body , seems too strong at first , but ...
Pagina 230
... admiration of Milton's great poetical merit , to which he has done illustrious justice , beyond all who have written upon the subject . 1 Mrs. Williams is probably the person meant . And this year he not only wrote a Prologue , [ 230 ] ...
... admiration of Milton's great poetical merit , to which he has done illustrious justice , beyond all who have written upon the subject . 1 Mrs. Williams is probably the person meant . And this year he not only wrote a Prologue , [ 230 ] ...
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