Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage [and] SwiftCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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Page 15
... longer wanted . Their usefulness to the age in which they were written is sufficiently attested by the translations which almost all the nations of Europe were in haste to obtain . This species of instruction was continued , and perhaps ...
... longer wanted . Their usefulness to the age in which they were written is sufficiently attested by the translations which almost all the nations of Europe were in haste to obtain . This species of instruction was continued , and perhaps ...
Page 21
... longer time than , I believe , the public had allowed to any drama before ; and the author , as Mrs. Porter long afterwards related , wandered through the whole exhibition behind the scenes with restless and unappeasable solicitude ...
... longer time than , I believe , the public had allowed to any drama before ; and the author , as Mrs. Porter long afterwards related , wandered through the whole exhibition behind the scenes with restless and unappeasable solicitude ...
Page 25
... longer than the question that produced it . Not long afterwards an attempt was made to revive the Spectator , at a time indeed by no means favourable to literature , when the succession of a new family to the throne filled the nation ...
... longer than the question that produced it . Not long afterwards an attempt was made to revive the Spectator , at a time indeed by no means favourable to literature , when the succession of a new family to the throne filled the nation ...
Page 31
... longer known . The delicate features of the mind , the nice discriminations of character , and the minute pecu- liarities of conduct , are soon obliterated ; and it is surely better that caprice , obstinacy , frolic , and folly ...
... longer known . The delicate features of the mind , the nice discriminations of character , and the minute pecu- liarities of conduct , are soon obliterated ; and it is surely better that caprice , obstinacy , frolic , and folly ...
Page 44
... longer than the reading or the representation ; the whole extent of their enmity is circumscribed by those ; and therefore , during that reading or repre- sentation , according to their merits or demerits , they must be punished or ...
... longer than the reading or the representation ; the whole extent of their enmity is circumscribed by those ; and therefore , during that reading or repre- sentation , according to their merits or demerits , they must be punished or ...
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