Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage [and] SwiftCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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... observations on the country , but found time to write his " Dialogues on Medals , " and four acts of Cato . Such , at least , is the relation of Tickell . Perhaps he only collected his materials and formed his plan . Whatever were his ...
... observations on the country , but found time to write his " Dialogues on Medals , " and four acts of Cato . Such , at least , is the relation of Tickell . Perhaps he only collected his materials and formed his plan . Whatever were his ...
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... observation . Before the Tatler and Spectator , if the writers for the theatre are excepted , England had no masters of common life . No writers had yet undertaken to reform either the savageness of neglect , or the impertinence of ...
... observation . Before the Tatler and Spectator , if the writers for the theatre are excepted , England had no masters of common life . No writers had yet undertaken to reform either the savageness of neglect , or the impertinence of ...
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... observed that the sale may be calculated by the product of the tax , related in the last number to produce more than twenty pounds a week , and therefore stated at one - and - twenty pounds , or three pounds ten shillings a day this ...
... observed that the sale may be calculated by the product of the tax , related in the last number to produce more than twenty pounds a week , and therefore stated at one - and - twenty pounds , or three pounds ten shillings a day this ...
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... hold on his proportion of the profits . Many of these papers were written with powers truly comic , with nice discrimination of characters , and accu- rate observation of natural or accidental deviations from propriety ; ADDISON . 23.
... hold on his proportion of the profits . Many of these papers were written with powers truly comic , with nice discrimination of characters , and accu- rate observation of natural or accidental deviations from propriety ; ADDISON . 23.
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Samuel Johnson. rate observation of natural or accidental deviations from propriety ; but it was not supposed that he had tried a comedy on the stage , till Steele after his death ... observation of natural or accidental deviations from ...
Samuel Johnson. rate observation of natural or accidental deviations from propriety ; but it was not supposed that he had tried a comedy on the stage , till Steele after his death ... observation of natural or accidental deviations from ...
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