Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage [and] SwiftCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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... secret till the papers were collected into volumes . To the Tatler , in about two months , succeeded the Spectator . a series of essays of the same kind , but written ยท with less levity , upon a more regular plan 14 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... secret till the papers were collected into volumes . To the Tatler , in about two months , succeeded the Spectator . a series of essays of the same kind , but written ยท with less levity , upon a more regular plan 14 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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... Spectator , in one of the first papers , showed the political tenets of its authors ; but a resolution was soon taken of courting general approbation by general topics , and subjects on which faction had produced no diversity of ...
... Spectator , in one of the first papers , showed the political tenets of its authors ; but a resolution was soon taken of courting general approbation by general topics , and subjects on which faction had produced no diversity of ...
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... Spectator , if the writers for the theatre are excepted , England had no masters of common life . No writers had yet undertaken to reform either the savageness of neglect , or the impertinence of civility ; to show when to speak , or to ...
... Spectator , if the writers for the theatre are excepted , England had no masters of common life . No writers had yet undertaken to reform either the savageness of neglect , or the impertinence of civility ; to show when to speak , or to ...
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... Spectator had the same tendency ; they were published at a time when two parties - loud , restless , and violent , each with plausible declarations , and each perhaps with- out any distinct termination of its views - were agitating the ...
... Spectator had the same tendency ; they were published at a time when two parties - loud , restless , and violent , each with plausible declarations , and each perhaps with- out any distinct termination of its views - were agitating the ...
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... Spectator , the favourite of Addison was Sir Roger de Coverley , of whom he had formed a very delicate and discriminate idea , which he would not suffer to be violated ; and therefore when Steele had shown him innocently picking up a ...
... Spectator , the favourite of Addison was Sir Roger de Coverley , of whom he had formed a very delicate and discriminate idea , which he would not suffer to be violated ; and therefore when Steele had shown him innocently picking up a ...
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