Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage [and] SwiftCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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Page 11
... performance cannot be denied to be vigorous and elegant . Having yet no public employment , he obtained ( in 1699 ) a pension of three hundred pounds a year , that he might be enabled to travel . He stayed a year at Blois , probably to ...
... performance cannot be denied to be vigorous and elegant . Having yet no public employment , he obtained ( in 1699 ) a pension of three hundred pounds a year , that he might be enabled to travel . He stayed a year at Blois , probably to ...
Page 15
... performance justified their con- fidence . They found , however , in their progress many auxiliaries . To attempt a single paper was no terrifying labour ; many pieces were offered , and many were re- ceived . Addison had enough of the ...
... performance justified their con- fidence . They found , however , in their progress many auxiliaries . To attempt a single paper was no terrifying labour ; many pieces were offered , and many were re- ceived . Addison had enough of the ...
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... performance which left the objections to the play in their full force , and therefore discovered more desire of vexing the critic than of defend → ing the poet . Addison , who was no stranger to the world , probably saw the selfishness ...
... performance which left the objections to the play in their full force , and therefore discovered more desire of vexing the critic than of defend → ing the poet . Addison , who was no stranger to the world , probably saw the selfishness ...
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... performance ; his poem is the work of a man not blinded by the dust of learning ; his images are not borrowed merely from books . The superiority which he confers upon his hero is not personal prowess and " mighty bone , " but ...
... performance ; his poem is the work of a man not blinded by the dust of learning ; his images are not borrowed merely from books . The superiority which he confers upon his hero is not personal prowess and " mighty bone , " but ...
Page 40
... performance by a like agency , is not a simile , but an exemplification . It is not a simile to say that the Thames waters fields , as the Po waters fields ; or that as Hecla vomits flames in Iceland , so Etna vomits flames in Sicily ...
... performance by a like agency , is not a simile , but an exemplification . It is not a simile to say that the Thames waters fields , as the Po waters fields ; or that as Hecla vomits flames in Iceland , so Etna vomits flames in Sicily ...
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