Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage [and] SwiftCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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... short , his observations are such as might be supplied by a hasty view , and consist chiefly in comparisons of the present face of the country with the descriptions left us by the Roman poets , from whom he made preparatory collections ...
... short , his observations are such as might be supplied by a hasty view , and consist chiefly in comparisons of the present face of the country with the descriptions left us by the Roman poets , from whom he made preparatory collections ...
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... short papers , which we read , not as study , but amusement . If the subject be slight , the treatise is short . The busy may find time , and the idle may find patience . This mode of conveying cheap and easy knowledge began among us in ...
... short papers , which we read , not as study , but amusement . If the subject be slight , the treatise is short . The busy may find time , and the idle may find patience . This mode of conveying cheap and easy knowledge began among us in ...
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... , by Addison . It came too late to be of use , so I inspected it but slightly , and remember it indistinctly . I thought the passages too short . Addison , however , did not conclude his life in peaceful studies 28 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... , by Addison . It came too late to be of use , so I inspected it but slightly , and remember it indistinctly . I thought the passages too short . Addison , however , did not conclude his life in peaceful studies 28 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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... short time is lost for ever . What is known can seldom be immediately told ; and when it might be told , it is no longer known . The delicate features of the mind , the nice discriminations of character , and the minute pecu- liarities ...
... short time is lost for ever . What is known can seldom be immediately told ; and when it might be told , it is no longer known . The delicate features of the mind , the nice discriminations of character , and the minute pecu- liarities ...
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... short time . In Tickell's excellent Elegy on his friend are these lines : - " He taught us how to live ; and , oh ! too high The price of knowledge , taught us how to die ' in which he alludes , as he told Dr. Young , to this moving ...
... short time . In Tickell's excellent Elegy on his friend are these lines : - " He taught us how to live ; and , oh ! too high The price of knowledge , taught us how to die ' in which he alludes , as he told Dr. Young , to this moving ...
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