Lives of the English PoetsCaasel et Cie, 1892 |
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Page 37
... elegance and gaiety to the aid of good- ness ; and , if I may use expressions yet more awful , of having " turned many to righteousness . " Addison , in his life and for some time afterwards , was considered by a greater part of readers ...
... elegance and gaiety to the aid of good- ness ; and , if I may use expressions yet more awful , of having " turned many to righteousness . " Addison , in his life and for some time afterwards , was considered by a greater part of readers ...
Page 38
... elegance . He thinks justly , but he thinks faintly . This is his general character ; to which , doubt- less , many single passages will furnish exception . Yet , if he seldom reaches supreme excellence , he rarely sinks into dulness ...
... elegance . He thinks justly , but he thinks faintly . This is his general character ; to which , doubt- less , many single passages will furnish exception . Yet , if he seldom reaches supreme excellence , he rarely sinks into dulness ...
Page 42
... use of dialogue too decla- matory , of unaffecting elegance , and chill philosophy . The universality of applause , however it might quell the ; censure of common mortals , had no other effect 42 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... use of dialogue too decla- matory , of unaffecting elegance , and chill philosophy . The universality of applause , however it might quell the ; censure of common mortals , had no other effect 42 LIVES OF THE POETS .
Page 57
... elegance was excited , and from this time to our own life has been gradually exalted , and conversation purified and enlarged , Dryden had , not many years before , scattered criticism over his prefaces with very little parsimony ; but ...
... elegance was excited , and from this time to our own life has been gradually exalted , and conversation purified and enlarged , Dryden had , not many years before , scattered criticism over his prefaces with very little parsimony ; but ...
Page 58
... elegance , such as his contemners will not easily attain . As a describer of life and manners , he must be allowed to stand perhaps the first of the first rank . His humour , which , as Steele observes , is peculiar to himself , is so ...
... elegance , such as his contemners will not easily attain . As a describer of life and manners , he must be allowed to stand perhaps the first of the first rank . His humour , which , as Steele observes , is peculiar to himself , is so ...
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acquaintance Addison afterwards allowed appeared calamities Cassell's Cato censure character Cheap Edition conduct considered contempt conversation death declared Delany discovered distress E. W. HORNUNG elegance endeavoured expected favour fortune friends friendship genius honour Illustrated imagined Ireland Juba justly kindness King letter likewise lived lodging London Lord Tyrconnel mankind manner MAX PEMBERTON mentioned merit mind misery misfortunes mother nature neglect never obliged observed occasion once opinion Orrery pamphlet panegyric passion pension performance perhaps pleasure poem poet poetical Pope pounds praise promise published queen R. L. STEVENSON reader reason received regard resentment resolution retired Richard Savage ROBERT STAWELL BALL SAMUEL JOHNSON Savage Savage's says Sempronius sent sentiments Sir Richard Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon Spectator STANLEY WEYMAN Steele suffered sufficient supposed Swift Syphax Tatler tenderness thought Tickell tion told tragedy verses virtue Vols Whigs write wrote