Lives of the English PoetsCaasel et Cie, 1892 |
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... virtues , was to fall before a tyrant . The fact is certain ; the motives we must guess . Addison was , I believe ... virtue . Addison was frighted , lest he should be thought a promoter of insurrection , and the line was liquidated ...
... virtues , was to fall before a tyrant . The fact is certain ; the motives we must guess . Addison was , I believe ... virtue . Addison was frighted , lest he should be thought a promoter of insurrection , and the line was liquidated ...
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... virtue in the sentiments , or elegance in the language . He engaged in a nobler work , a " Defence of the Christian Religion , " of which part was published after his death ; and he designed to have made a new poetical version of the ...
... virtue in the sentiments , or elegance in the language . He engaged in a nobler work , a " Defence of the Christian Religion , " of which part was published after his death ; and he designed to have made a new poetical version of the ...
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... virtue it is a sufficient testimony that the resentment of party has transmitted no charge of any crime . He was not one of those who are praised only after death ; for his merit was so generally acknowledged that Swift , having ...
... virtue it is a sufficient testimony that the resentment of party has transmitted no charge of any crime . He was not one of those who are praised only after death ; for his merit was so generally acknowledged that Swift , having ...
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... virtue , do no more than praise it . Yet it is reasonable to believe that Addison's professions and practice were at no great variance , since amidst that storm of faction in which most of his life was passed , though his station made ...
... virtue , do no more than praise it . Yet it is reasonable to believe that Addison's professions and practice were at no great variance , since amidst that storm of faction in which most of his life was passed , though his station made ...
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... virtue and religion . He not only made the proper use of wit himself , but taught it to others ; and from his time it has been generally subservient to the cause of reason and of truth . He has dissipated the preju- dice that had long ...
... virtue and religion . He not only made the proper use of wit himself , but taught it to others ; and from his time it has been generally subservient to the cause of reason and of truth . He has dissipated the preju- dice that had long ...
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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