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... Addison in the Spectator , with sufficient liberality , met with so much favour as enraged Dennis , " who , " he says , " found himself attacked , without any manner of provocation on his side , and attacked in his person instead of his ...
... Addison in the Spectator , with sufficient liberality , met with so much favour as enraged Dennis , " who , " he says , " found himself attacked , without any manner of provocation on his side , and attacked in his person instead of his ...
Page 72
... Addison , nor , as it is said , intended by the author . Almost every poem , consisting of precepts , is so far arbitrary and immethodical , that many of the paragraphs may change places with no apparent inconvenience ; for of two or ...
... Addison , nor , as it is said , intended by the author . Almost every poem , consisting of precepts , is so far arbitrary and immethodical , that many of the paragraphs may change places with no apparent inconvenience ; for of two or ...
Page 75
... Addison , who told him that his work , as it stood , was " a delicious little thing , " and gave him no encouragement to retouch it . This has been too hastily considered as an instance of Addison's jealousy , for , as he could not ...
... Addison , who told him that his work , as it stood , was " a delicious little thing , " and gave him no encouragement to retouch it . This has been too hastily considered as an instance of Addison's jealousy , for , as he could not ...
Page 77
... Addison , both as a poet and a politician . Reports like this are often spread with boldness very disproportionate to their evidence . Why should Addison receive any par- ticular disturbance from the last lines of " Windsor Forest ...
... Addison , both as a poet and a politician . Reports like this are often spread with boldness very disproportionate to their evidence . Why should Addison receive any par- ticular disturbance from the last lines of " Windsor Forest ...
Page 78
... Addison immediately saw the writer's design , and , as it seems , had malice enough to conceal his dis- covery , and to permit a publication which , by making his friend Philips ridiculous , made him for ever an enemy to Pope . It ...
... Addison immediately saw the writer's design , and , as it seems , had malice enough to conceal his dis- covery , and to permit a publication which , by making his friend Philips ridiculous , made him for ever an enemy to Pope . It ...
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