Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage [and] SwiftCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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Page 11
... elegance or literature ; his study was only war ; yet by a choice of Ministers , whose disposition was very different from his own , he procured , without intention , a very liberal patron- age to poetry . Addison was caressed both by ...
... elegance or literature ; his study was only war ; yet by a choice of Ministers , whose disposition was very different from his own , he procured , without intention , a very liberal patron- age to poetry . Addison was caressed both by ...
Page 12
... elegance of language , and variegation of prose and verse , however , gain upon the reader ; and the book , though awhile neglected , became in time so much the favourite of the public that before it was reprinted it rose to five times ...
... elegance of language , and variegation of prose and verse , however , gain upon the reader ; and the book , though awhile neglected , became in time so much the favourite of the public that before it was reprinted it rose to five times ...
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... elegance , and which , if they are now less read , are neglected only because they have effected that reformation which their authors intended , and their precepts now are no longer wanted . Their usefulness to the age in which they ...
... elegance , and which , if they are now less read , are neglected only because they have effected that reformation which their authors intended , and their precepts now are no longer wanted . Their usefulness to the age in which they ...
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... 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 Psalms . 66 These pious ...
... 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 Psalms . 66 These pious ...
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... elegance of his colloquial accomplishments , which may easily be supposed such as Pope represents them . The remark of Mandeville , who , when he had passed an even- ing in his company , declared that he was a parson in a tie - wig ...
... elegance of his colloquial accomplishments , which may easily be supposed such as Pope represents them . The remark of Mandeville , who , when he had passed an even- ing in his company , declared that he was a parson in a tie - wig ...
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