Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage [and] SwiftCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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... passion . He is said to have first known her by becoming tutor to her son . " He formed , " said Tonson , " the design of getting that lady from the time when he was first taken into the family . " In what part of his life he obtained ...
... passion . He is said to have first known her by becoming tutor to her son . " He formed , " said Tonson , " the design of getting that lady from the time when he was first taken into the family . " In what part of his life he obtained ...
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... would have been despotic and irresistible . To prevent this subversion of the ancient establishment , Steele , whose pen readily seconded his political passions , ADDISON . 29 however, did not conclude his life in peaceful studies...
... would have been despotic and irresistible . To prevent this subversion of the ancient establishment , Steele , whose pen readily seconded his political passions , ADDISON . 29 however, did not conclude his life in peaceful studies...
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Samuel Johnson. Steele , whose pen readily seconded his political passions , endeavoured to alarm the nation by a pamphlet called " The Plebeian . " To this an answer was published by Addison , under the title of " The Old Whig , " in ...
Samuel Johnson. Steele , whose pen readily seconded his political passions , endeavoured to alarm the nation by a pamphlet called " The Plebeian . " To this an answer was published by Addison , under the title of " The Old Whig , " in ...
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... passions , and the power of consulting his own mind in the midst of danger . The rejection and contempt of fiction is rational and manly . observed that the last line is imitated by Pope : - " Marlb'rough's exploits appear divinely ...
... passions , and the power of consulting his own mind in the midst of danger . The rejection and contempt of fiction is rational and manly . observed that the last line is imitated by Pope : - " Marlb'rough's exploits appear divinely ...
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... passions by a plot without doors , since he despairs of doing it by that which he brings upon the stage . That party and passion , and prepossession , are clamorous and tumultuous things , and so much the more clamorous and tumultuous ...
... passions by a plot without doors , since he despairs of doing it by that which he brings upon the stage . That party and passion , and prepossession , are clamorous and tumultuous things , and so much the more clamorous and tumultuous ...
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