Lives of the English PoetsCaasel et Cie, 1892 |
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Page 59
... occasions not grovelling ; pure without scrupulosity , and exact without apparent elaboration ; always equable , and always easy , without glowing words or pointed sentences . Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace ; he ...
... occasions not grovelling ; pure without scrupulosity , and exact without apparent elaboration ; always equable , and always easy , without glowing words or pointed sentences . Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace ; he ...
Page 60
... occasion to envy in those who look up to them from a lower station ; whether it be that apparent superiority incites great designs , and great de- signs are naturally liable to fatal miscarriages ; or that the general lot of mankind is ...
... occasion to envy in those who look up to them from a lower station ; whether it be that apparent superiority incites great designs , and great de- signs are naturally liable to fatal miscarriages ; or that the general lot of mankind is ...
Page 65
... occasion find protectors and advocates among those who had long traded in crimes , and whom compassion had never touched before . Being hindered , by whatever means , from banishing him into another country , she formed soon after a ...
... occasion find protectors and advocates among those who had long traded in crimes , and whom compassion had never touched before . Being hindered , by whatever means , from banishing him into another country , she formed soon after a ...
Page 66
... occasion . Mr. Savage was himself in a little time ashamed of it , and endeavoured to suppress it , by destroying all the copies that he could collect . He then attempted a more gainful kind of writing , and in his eighteenth year ...
... occasion . Mr. Savage was himself in a little time ashamed of it , and endeavoured to suppress it , by destroying all the copies that he could collect . He then attempted a more gainful kind of writing , and in his eighteenth year ...
Page 71
... occasions he often received uncommon marks of regard and compassion ; and was once told by the Duke of Dorset that it was just to consider him as an injured nobleman , and that in his opinion the nobility ought to think themselves ...
... occasions he often received uncommon marks of regard and compassion ; and was once told by the Duke of Dorset that it was just to consider him as an injured nobleman , and that in his opinion the nobility ought to think themselves ...
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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