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Pagina 30
... give the true reason - the fact was too recent , and those who had been heated in the contention were not yet cool . The necessity of complying with times , and of sparing persons , is the great impediment of biography . History may be ...
... give the true reason - the fact was too recent , and those who had been heated in the contention were not yet cool . The necessity of complying with times , and of sparing persons , is the great impediment of biography . History may be ...
Pagina 32
... , which doubles the beauties which are seen , and gives credit and esteem to all that are concealed . " Chesterfield affirms that " Addison was the most timorous and awkward man that he ever saw . " And Addison 32 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... , which doubles the beauties which are seen , and gives credit and esteem to all that are concealed . " Chesterfield affirms that " Addison was the most timorous and awkward man that he ever saw . " And Addison 32 LIVES OF THE POETS .
Pagina 37
... has lately styled him " an indifferent poet , and a worse critic . " His poetry is first to be considered ; of which it must be confessed that it has not often those felicities of diction which give lustre to sentiments , or ADDISON . 37.
... has lately styled him " an indifferent poet , and a worse critic . " His poetry is first to be considered ; of which it must be confessed that it has not often those felicities of diction which give lustre to sentiments , or ADDISON . 37.
Pagina 38
Samuel Johnson. felicities of diction which give lustre to sentiments , or that vigour of sentiment that animates diction : there is little of ardour , vehemence , or transport ; there is very rarely the awfulness of grandeur , and not ...
Samuel Johnson. felicities of diction which give lustre to sentiments , or that vigour of sentiment that animates diction : there is little of ardour , vehemence , or transport ; there is very rarely the awfulness of grandeur , and not ...
Pagina 41
... gives almost the same images a second time . But perhaps this thought , though hardly a simile , was remote from vulgar conceptions , and required great labour and research , or dexterity of application . Of this Dr. Madden , a name ...
... gives almost the same images a second time . But perhaps this thought , though hardly a simile , was remote from vulgar conceptions , and required great labour and research , or dexterity of application . Of this Dr. Madden , a name ...
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acquaintance Addison afterwards allowed appeared calamities Cassell's Cato censure character Cheap Edition conduct considered contempt conversation death declared Delany discovered distress E. W. HORNUNG elegance endeavoured expected favour fortune friends friendship genius honour Illustrated imagined Ireland Juba justly kindness King letter likewise lived lodging London Lord Tyrconnel mankind manner MAX PEMBERTON mentioned merit mind misery misfortunes mother nature neglect never obliged observed occasion once opinion Orrery pamphlet panegyric passion pension performance perhaps pleasure poem poet poetical Pope pounds praise promise published queen R. L. STEVENSON reader reason received regard resentment resolution retired Richard Savage ROBERT STAWELL BALL SAMUEL JOHNSON Savage Savage's says Sempronius sent sentiments Sir Richard Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon Spectator STANLEY WEYMAN Steele suffered sufficient supposed Swift Syphax Tatler tenderness thought Tickell tion told tragedy verses virtue Vols Whigs write wrote