Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage [and] SwiftCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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... political tenets of its authors ; but a resolution was soon taken of courting general approbation by general topics , and subjects on which faction had produced no diversity of sentiments— such as literature , morality , and familiar ...
... political tenets of its authors ; but a resolution was soon taken of courting general approbation by general topics , and subjects on which faction had produced no diversity of sentiments— such as literature , morality , and familiar ...
Page 16
... politics ; but an arbiter elegantiarum ( a judge of . propriety ) was yet wanting who should survey the track of daily conversation , and free it from thorns and prickles , which tease the passer , though they do not wound him . For ...
... politics ; but an arbiter elegantiarum ( a judge of . propriety ) was yet wanting who should survey the track of daily conversation , and free it from thorns and prickles , which tease the passer , though they do not wound him . For ...
Page 17
... political contest they supplied cooler and more inoffensive reflections ; and it is said by Addison , in a subsequent work , that they had a perceptible influence upon the conversation of that time , and taught the frolic and the gay to ...
... political contest they supplied cooler and more inoffensive reflections ; and it is said by Addison , in a subsequent work , that they had a perceptible influence upon the conversation of that time , and taught the frolic and the gay to ...
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... politics on fire , and wit at once blazed into faction . He was soon too hot for neutral topics , and quitted the Guardian to write the Englishman . The papers of Addison are marked in the Spectator by one of the letters in the name of ...
... politics on fire , and wit at once blazed into faction . He was soon too hot for neutral topics , and quitted the Guardian to write the Englishman . The papers of Addison are marked in the Spectator by one of the letters in the name of ...
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... political dispute . It so happened that ( 1718-19 ) a controversy was agitated with great vehemence between those friends of long continuance , Addison and Steele . It may be asked , in the language of Homer , what power or what cause ...
... political dispute . It so happened that ( 1718-19 ) a controversy was agitated with great vehemence between those friends of long continuance , Addison and Steele . It may be asked , in the language of Homer , what power or what cause ...
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