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Page 186
... elegance , and his melody , with equal alacrity , for Charles the Second . It is not possible to read , without some contempt and indignation , poems of the same author , ascribing the highest degree of power and piety to Charles the ...
... elegance , and his melody , with equal alacrity , for Charles the Second . It is not possible to read , without some contempt and indignation , poems of the same author , ascribing the highest degree of power and piety to Charles the ...
Page 205
... elegance and gaiety . He is never pathetick , and very rarely sublime . He seems neither to have had a mind much elevated by nature , nor amplified by learning . His thoughts are such as a liberal conversation and large acquaintance ...
... elegance and gaiety . He is never pathetick , and very rarely sublime . He seems neither to have had a mind much elevated by nature , nor amplified by learning . His thoughts are such as a liberal conversation and large acquaintance ...
Page 428
... elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness ; and , if I may use expressions yet more awful , of having turned many to righteousness . ADDISON , in his life , and for some time afterwards , was considered by the greater part of readers ...
... elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness ; and , if I may use expressions yet more awful , of having turned many to righteousness . ADDISON , in his life , and for some time afterwards , was considered by the greater part of readers ...
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