Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage [and] SwiftCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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Page 9
... perhaps for a convenient receptacle , in which all his Latin pieces are inserted , and where his poem on the Peace has the first place . He afterwards presented the collection to Boileau , who from that time " conceived , " says Tickell ...
... perhaps for a convenient receptacle , in which all his Latin pieces are inserted , and where his poem on the Peace has the first place . He afterwards presented the collection to Boileau , who from that time " conceived , " says Tickell ...
Page 11
... Perhaps he only collected his materials and formed his plan . Whatever were his other employments in Italy , he there wrote the letter to Lord Halifax which is justly considered as the most elegant , if not the most sublime , of his ...
... Perhaps he only collected his materials and formed his plan . Whatever were his other employments in Italy , he there wrote the letter to Lord Halifax which is justly considered as the most elegant , if not the most sublime , of his ...
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... instruction was continued , and perhaps advanced , by the French ; among whom La Bruyère's " Manners of the Age " ( though , as Boileau remarked , it is written without connection ) certainly deserves praise for liveliness of ADDISON . 15.
... instruction was continued , and perhaps advanced , by the French ; among whom La Bruyère's " Manners of the Age " ( though , as Boileau remarked , it is written without connection ) certainly deserves praise for liveliness of ADDISON . 15.
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... perhaps by others ; but hitherto nothing had been conveyed to the people , in this commodious manner , but controversy re- lating to the Church or State ; of which they taught many to talk , whom they could not teach to judge . It has ...
... perhaps by others ; but hitherto nothing had been conveyed to the people , in this commodious manner , but controversy re- lating to the Church or State ; of which they taught many to talk , whom they could not teach to judge . It has ...
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... perhaps with- out any distinct termination of its views - were agitating the nation ; to minds heated with political contest they supplied cooler and more inoffensive reflections ; and it is said by Addison , in a subsequent work , that ...
... perhaps with- out any distinct termination of its views - were agitating the nation ; to minds heated with political contest they supplied cooler and more inoffensive reflections ; and it is said by Addison , in a subsequent work , that ...
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