Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage [and] SwiftCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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... human kindness . Savage drew largely on him for sympathy , and had it ; although Johnson was too clear - sighted to be much deceived except in judgment upon the fraudulent claims which then gave rise to division of opinion . The Life of ...
... human kindness . Savage drew largely on him for sympathy , and had it ; although Johnson was too clear - sighted to be much deceived except in judgment upon the fraudulent claims which then gave rise to division of opinion . The Life of ...
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... Human happiness has always its abatements ; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud . No sooner was Cato offered to the reader than it was attacked by the acute malignity of Dennis with all the violence of angry ...
... Human happiness has always its abatements ; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud . No sooner was Cato offered to the reader than it was attacked by the acute malignity of Dennis with all the violence of angry ...
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... human state , we are doomed to number the instability of friendship . Of this dispute I have little knowledge but from the " Biographia Britannica . " " The Old Whig " is not inserted in Addison's works : nor is it mentioned by Tickell ...
... human state , we are doomed to number the instability of friendship . Of this dispute I have little knowledge but from the " Biographia Britannica . " " The Old Whig " is not inserted in Addison's works : nor is it mentioned by Tickell ...
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... human life , and knew the heart of man , from the depths of stratagem to the surface of af- fectation . What he knew he could easily communicate . ' This , " says Steele , " was particular in this writer - that when he had taken his ...
... human life , and knew the heart of man , from the depths of stratagem to the surface of af- fectation . What he knew he could easily communicate . ' This , " says Steele , " was particular in this writer - that when he had taken his ...
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... human excellence must be , the product of good luck improved by genius . The thoughts are sometimes great , and sometimes tender ; the versifi- cation is easy and gay . There is doubtless some ad- vantage in the shortness of the lines ...
... human excellence must be , the product of good luck improved by genius . The thoughts are sometimes great , and sometimes tender ; the versifi- cation is easy and gay . There is doubtless some ad- vantage in the shortness of the lines ...
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