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Page 329
... Steele . It is not hard to love those from whom nothing can be feared ; and Addifon never confidered Steele as a rival ; but Steele lived , as he confeffes , under an habitual fubjection to the predomi- up below prisme nating genius of ...
... Steele . It is not hard to love those from whom nothing can be feared ; and Addifon never confidered Steele as a rival ; but Steele lived , as he confeffes , under an habitual fubjection to the predomi- up below prisme nating genius of ...
Page 330
... Steele , whofe imprudence of genero- fity , or vanity of profufion , kept him always incurably neceffitous , upon fome preffing ex- igence , in an evil hour , borrowed an hundred pounds of his friend , probably without much purpose of ...
... Steele , whofe imprudence of genero- fity , or vanity of profufion , kept him always incurably neceffitous , upon fome preffing ex- igence , in an evil hour , borrowed an hundred pounds of his friend , probably without much purpose of ...
Page 340
... Steele dedicated to him , with a confeffion that he owed to him feveral of the most fuccessful scenes . plied a prologue . To this play Addifon fup- When the marquis of Wharton was appointed lord lieutenant of Ireland , Addifon attended ...
... Steele dedicated to him , with a confeffion that he owed to him feveral of the most fuccessful scenes . plied a prologue . To this play Addifon fup- When the marquis of Wharton was appointed lord lieutenant of Ireland , Addifon attended ...
Page 342
... Steele , without any communication of his defign , began the publication of the Tatler : but he was not long concealed ; by inferting a remark on Virgil , which Addifon had given him , he difcovered himfelf . It is indeed not eafy for ...
... Steele , without any communication of his defign , began the publication of the Tatler : but he was not long concealed ; by inferting a remark on Virgil , which Addifon had given him , he difcovered himfelf . It is indeed not eafy for ...
Page 343
... Steele had at that time almost nothing elfe . The Spectator , in one of the firft på- pers , fhewed the political tenets of its att- " ! thors ; but a resolution was fodi takeli , orei courting general approbation by general1to ...
... Steele had at that time almost nothing elfe . The Spectator , in one of the firft på- pers , fhewed the political tenets of its att- " ! thors ; but a resolution was fodi takeli , orei courting general approbation by general1to ...
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