The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius, Volumen1Luke Hansard & Sons, 1810 |
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... Addison's , in the Spectator , are more in number , but not half in point of quantity : Addison was not bound to publish on stated days ; he could watch the ebb and flow of his genius , and send his paper to the press when his own taste ...
... Addison's , in the Spectator , are more in number , but not half in point of quantity : Addison was not bound to publish on stated days ; he could watch the ebb and flow of his genius , and send his paper to the press when his own taste ...
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... Addison , he seems to have been fond of his Latin poetry . Those com- positions show that he was an early scholar ; but his verses have not the graceful ease that gave so much suavity to the poems of Addison . The translation of the ...
... Addison , he seems to have been fond of his Latin poetry . Those com- positions show that he was an early scholar ; but his verses have not the graceful ease that gave so much suavity to the poems of Addison . The translation of the ...
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... Addison , Swift , and Pope , with more correctness , carried our language well nigh to perfection . Of Addison , Johnson was used to say , He is the Raphael of Essay Writers . How he differed so widely from such elegant models is a ...
... Addison , Swift , and Pope , with more correctness , carried our language well nigh to perfection . Of Addison , Johnson was used to say , He is the Raphael of Essay Writers . How he differed so widely from such elegant models is a ...
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... Addison . He had what Locke calls a round - about view of his subject ; and though he was never tainted , like many modern wits , with the ambition of shining in paradox , he may be fairly called an ORI- GINAL THINKER . His reading was ...
... Addison . He had what Locke calls a round - about view of his subject ; and though he was never tainted , like many modern wits , with the ambition of shining in paradox , he may be fairly called an ORI- GINAL THINKER . His reading was ...
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... Addison possessed an unclouded imagination , alive to the first objects of nature and of art . He reaches the sublime without any apparent effort . When he tells us , " If we consider " the fixed stars as so many oceans of flame ...
... Addison possessed an unclouded imagination , alive to the first objects of nature and of art . He reaches the sublime without any apparent effort . When he tells us , " If we consider " the fixed stars as so many oceans of flame ...
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