Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage [and] SwiftCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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Page 16
... frequent publication of short papers , which we read , not as study , but amusement . If the subject be slight , the treatise is short . The busy may find time , and the idle may find patience . This mode of conveying cheap and easy ...
... frequent publication of short papers , which we read , not as study , but amusement . If the subject be slight , the treatise is short . The busy may find time , and the idle may find patience . This mode of conveying cheap and easy ...
Page 39
... frequent subject of poetry , and then inquire who has described it with more justice and force . Many of our own writers tried their powers upon this year of victory : yet Addison's is confessedly the best performance ; his poem is the ...
... frequent subject of poetry , and then inquire who has described it with more justice and force . Many of our own writers tried their powers upon this year of victory : yet Addison's is confessedly the best performance ; his poem is the ...
Page 56
... frequently in his translation than his other works . The mere structure of verses seems never to have engaged much of his care . But his lines are very smooth in Rosamond , and too smooth in Cato . Addison is now to be considered as a ...
... frequently in his translation than his other works . The mere structure of verses seems never to have engaged much of his care . But his lines are very smooth in Rosamond , and too smooth in Cato . Addison is now to be considered as a ...
Page 60
... frequent , or more severe . That affluence and power , advantages extrinsic and adventitious , and therefore easily ... frequently disappointed . The heroes of literary as well as civil history have been very often no less remarkable ...
... frequent , or more severe . That affluence and power , advantages extrinsic and adventitious , and therefore easily ... frequently disappointed . The heroes of literary as well as civil history have been very often no less remarkable ...
Page 64
... frequently inquired after his son , and had always been amused with fallacious and evasive answers ; but being now in his own opinion on his death - bed , he thought it his duty to provide for him among his other natural children , and ...
... frequently inquired after his son , and had always been amused with fallacious and evasive answers ; but being now in his own opinion on his death - bed , he thought it his duty to provide for him among his other natural children , and ...
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acquaintance Addison afterwards allowed appeared calamities Cato censure character Chevy Chase conduct considered contempt conversation criticism death declared Delany discovered distress elegance endeavoured expected favour fortune friends friendship genius Georgic honour imagined Ireland Juba Juba's justly kindness knew letter likewise lived lodging London Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax Lord Tyrconnel mankind manner mentioned merit mind misery misfortunes mother nature neglect never obliged observed occasion once opinion Orrery pamphlet panegyric paper passion pension performance perhaps person pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical Pope pounds praise procured promise published queen reader reason received regard reputation resentment resolution retired Richard Savage Savage Savage's says scrupulosity Sempronius sentiments Sir Richard Sir Richard Steele Sir Robert Walpole Sir Thomas Overbury solicited sometimes soon Spectator Steele suffered sufficient supposed Swift Syphax Tatler tenderness thought Tickell tion told tragedy verses virtue Whigs write wrote