Select Essays of Addison: Together with Macaulay's Essay on Addison's Life and WritingsAllyn and Bacon, 1893 - 320 páginas |
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... King Charles's time jested upon nothing else during his whole reign . He then showed , by the examples of Horace , Juvenal , Boileau , and the best writers of every age , that the follies of the stage and court had never been accounted ...
... King Charles's time jested upon nothing else during his whole reign . He then showed , by the examples of Horace , Juvenal , Boileau , and the best writers of every age , that the follies of the stage and court had never been accounted ...
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... kings of Spain or Poland , he talks very notably ; but if you go out of the gazette , you drop him . In short , a mere courtier , a mere soldier , a mere scholar , a mere anything , is an insipid pedantic character , and equally ...
... kings of Spain or Poland , he talks very notably ; but if you go out of the gazette , you drop him . In short , a mere courtier , a mere soldier , a mere scholar , a mere anything , is an insipid pedantic character , and equally ...
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... King of Morocco's head . Among several other figures , he was very well pleased to see the statesman Cecil upon his knees ; and , concluding them all to be great men , was conducted to the figure which represents that martyr to good ...
... King of Morocco's head . Among several other figures , he was very well pleased to see the statesman Cecil upon his knees ; and , concluding them all to be great men , was conducted to the figure which represents that martyr to good ...
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... king , asked our interpreter what authority they had to say that Jacob had ever been in Scotland . The fellow ... kings without a head ; and upon giving us to know that the head , which was of beaten silver , had been stolen away several ...
... king , asked our interpreter what authority they had to say that Jacob had ever been in Scotland . The fellow ... kings without a head ; and upon giving us to know that the head , which was of beaten silver , had been stolen away several ...
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... King Charles the Second's time ; for which reason he has not ven- tured himself in town ever since . I might have shown them very good sport had this been their design ; for , as I am an old fox - hunter , I should have turned and ...
... King Charles the Second's time ; for which reason he has not ven- tured himself in town ever since . I might have shown them very good sport had this been their design ; for , as I am an old fox - hunter , I should have turned and ...
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acquainted Acts of Parliament Addison Æneid afterwards Ambrose Philips appeared audience beautiful called church coffee-house consider conversation court Coverley critics dæmon death delight discourse dress endeavor enemies English entertained essays fancy Freeport friend Sir Roger genius gentleman give hand head hear heard heart Hilpa honest honor humor Isaac Bickerstaff kind king Knight lady learned letter lion live look mankind manner master mind morning nature never observed occasion ordinary paper particular party passed passion person pleased pleasure poet Pope reader reason republic of letters Roger de Coverley Roger hearing servants Shalum short side Sir Andrew Sir Richard Baker soul Spanish monarchy Spectator take notice Tatler tell thing thou thought tion Tirzah told Tory town Virgil virtue walk Westminster Abbey Whig whole widow Wimble words writing young