Lives of the English PoetsCaasel et Cie, 1892 |
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Page 16
... frequent publication of short papers , which we read , not as study , but amusement . If the subject be slight , the treatise is short . The busy may find time , and the idle may find patience . This mode of conveying cheap and easy ...
... frequent publication of short papers , which we read , not as study , but amusement . If the subject be slight , the treatise is short . The busy may find time , and the idle may find patience . This mode of conveying cheap and easy ...
Page 39
... frequent subject of poetry , and then inquire who has described it with more justice and force . Many of our own writers tried their powers upon this year of victory : yet Addison's is confessedly the best performance ; his poem is the ...
... frequent subject of poetry , and then inquire who has described it with more justice and force . Many of our own writers tried their powers upon this year of victory : yet Addison's is confessedly the best performance ; his poem is the ...
Page 56
... frequently in his translation than his other works . The mere structure of verses seems never to have engaged much of his care . But his lines are very smooth in Rosamond , and too smooth in Cato . Addison is now to be considered as a ...
... frequently in his translation than his other works . The mere structure of verses seems never to have engaged much of his care . But his lines are very smooth in Rosamond , and too smooth in Cato . Addison is now to be considered as a ...
Page 60
... frequent , or more severe . That affluence and power , advantages extrinsic and adventitious , and therefore easily ... frequently disappointed . The heroes of literary as well as civil history have been very often no less remarkable ...
... frequent , or more severe . That affluence and power , advantages extrinsic and adventitious , and therefore easily ... frequently disappointed . The heroes of literary as well as civil history have been very often no less remarkable ...
Page 64
... frequently inquired after his son , and had always been amused with fallacious and evasive answers ; but being now in his own opinion on his death - bed , he thought it his duty to provide for him among his other natural children , and ...
... frequently inquired after his son , and had always been amused with fallacious and evasive answers ; but being now in his own opinion on his death - bed , he thought it his duty to provide for him among his other natural children , and ...
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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