Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage [and] SwiftCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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Page 15
... conversation , to correct those depravities which are rather ridiculous than crimi- nal , and remove those grievances which , if they produce no lasting calamities , impress hourly vexation , was first attempted by Casa in his book of ...
... conversation , to correct those depravities which are rather ridiculous than crimi- nal , and remove those grievances which , if they produce no lasting calamities , impress hourly vexation , was first attempted by Casa in his book of ...
Page 16
... conversation , and free it from thorns and prickles , which tease the passer , though they do not wound him . For this purpose nothing is so proper as the frequent publication of short papers , which we read , not as study , but ...
... conversation , and free it from thorns and prickles , which tease the passer , though they do not wound him . For this purpose nothing is so proper as the frequent publication of short papers , which we read , not as study , but ...
Page 17
... conversation of that time , and taught the frolic and the gay to unite merriment with decency - an effect which they can never wholly lose while they continue to be among the first books by which both sexes are initiated in the ...
... conversation of that time , and taught the frolic and the gay to unite merriment with decency - an effect which they can never wholly lose while they continue to be among the first books by which both sexes are initiated in the ...
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... conversation , used to say of him- self that , with respect to intellectual wealth , " he could draw bills for a thousand pounds , though he had not a guinea in his pocket . " That he wanted current coin for ready payment , and by that ...
... conversation , used to say of him- self that , with respect to intellectual wealth , " he could draw bills for a thousand pounds , though he had not a guinea in his pocket . " That he wanted current coin for ready payment , and by that ...
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... conversation purified and enlarged . Dryden had , not many years before , scattered criticism over his prefaces with very little parsimony ; but though he sometimes condescended to be somewhat familiar , his manner was in general too ...
... conversation purified and enlarged . Dryden had , not many years before , scattered criticism over his prefaces with very little parsimony ; but though he sometimes condescended to be somewhat familiar , his manner was in general too ...
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