Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage [and] SwiftCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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... effect of his civility rather than approbation . Three of his Latin poems are upon subjects on which perhaps he would not have ventured to have written in his own language : - " The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes , " " The Barometer ...
... effect of his civility rather than approbation . Three of his Latin poems are upon subjects on which perhaps he would not have ventured to have written in his own language : - " The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes , " " The Barometer ...
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... effect of judgment . It is necessary to inform the reader that about this time he was introduced by Congreve to Montague , then Chancellor of the Ex- chequer Addison was then learning the trade of a courtier , and subjoined Montague as ...
... effect of judgment . It is necessary to inform the reader that about this time he was introduced by Congreve to Montague , then Chancellor of the Ex- chequer Addison was then learning the trade of a courtier , and subjoined Montague as ...
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... effect of a musical drama in our own language . He therefore wrote the opera of Rosamond , which , when exhibited on the stage , was either hissed or neglected ; but , trusting that the readers would do him more justice , he published ...
... effect of a musical drama in our own language . He therefore wrote the opera of Rosamond , which , when exhibited on the stage , was either hissed or neglected ; but , trusting that the readers would do him more justice , he published ...
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... effect which they can never wholly lose while they continue to be among the first books by which both sexes are initiated in the elegances of knowledge . The Tatler and Spectator adjusted , like Casa , the un- settled practice of daily ...
... effect which they can never wholly lose while they continue to be among the first books by which both sexes are initiated in the elegances of knowledge . The Tatler and Spectator adjusted , like Casa , the un- settled practice of daily ...
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... effects of a mind deviating from the beaten track of life , by the perpetual pressure of some overwhelming idea , as of habitual rusticity , and that negligence which solitary grandeur naturally generates . The variable weather of the ...
... effects of a mind deviating from the beaten track of life , by the perpetual pressure of some overwhelming idea , as of habitual rusticity , and that negligence which solitary grandeur naturally generates . The variable weather of the ...
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