The lives of the most eminent English poetsJ. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son ... [and 36 others in London], 1787 |
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... conversation of that time , and taught the frolick and the gay to unite merriment with de- cency ; an effect which they can never wholly lofe , while they continue to be among the first books by which both fexes are initiated in the ...
... conversation of that time , and taught the frolick and the gay to unite merriment with de- cency ; an effect which they can never wholly lofe , while they continue to be among the first books by which both fexes are initiated in the ...
Page 69
... conversation to relate it would excite rather ridicule than atten- tion . In a word , it is an anecdote known to all but fuch as are strangers to the world and unufed to literary communication . Mr. Aldifon , in the heat of an important ...
... conversation to relate it would excite rather ridicule than atten- tion . In a word , it is an anecdote known to all but fuch as are strangers to the world and unufed to literary communication . Mr. Aldifon , in the heat of an important ...
Page 82
... conversation ; and who , that ever asked fuccour from Bacchus , was able to preferve himself from being enflaved by his auxiliary ? Among thofe friends it was that Addison displayed the elegance of his colloquial accomplishments , which ...
... conversation ; and who , that ever asked fuccour from Bacchus , was able to preferve himself from being enflaved by his auxiliary ? Among thofe friends it was that Addison displayed the elegance of his colloquial accomplishments , which ...
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... conversation was fo entertaining , and his ad- dress so pleasing , that few thought the pleasure which they received from him dearly purchased , by paying for his wine . It was his peculiar happiness , that he scarcely ever found a ...
... conversation was fo entertaining , and his ad- dress so pleasing , that few thought the pleasure which they received from him dearly purchased , by paying for his wine . It was his peculiar happiness , that he scarcely ever found a ...
Page 333
... conversation , and apply his mind wholly to the objects that others presented to it . This life , unhappy as it may be already imagined , was yet imbittered , in 1738 , with new calamities . The death of the Queen deprived him of all ...
... conversation , and apply his mind wholly to the objects that others presented to it . This life , unhappy as it may be already imagined , was yet imbittered , in 1738 , with new calamities . The death of the Queen deprived him of all ...
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