Select Essays of Addison: Together with Macaulay's Essay on Addison's Life and WritingsAllyn and Bacon, 1893 - 320 páginas |
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... nature , " nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth . His figures neither divert by distortion nor amaze by aggravation . He copies life with so much fidelity that he can be hardly said to invent ; yet his exhibitions ...
... nature , " nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth . His figures neither divert by distortion nor amaze by aggravation . He copies life with so much fidelity that he can be hardly said to invent ; yet his exhibitions ...
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... nature , that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author . To gratify this curiosity , which is so natural to a reader , I design this paper , and my next , as prefatory discourses to my following writings , and shall ...
... nature , that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author . To gratify this curiosity , which is so natural to a reader , I design this paper , and my next , as prefatory discourses to my following writings , and shall ...
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... good sense is pleasanter company than a general scholar ; and Sir Andrew having a natural unaffected eloquence , the perspicuity of hav clearness his discourse gives the same pleasure that wit would in The Spectator Club . 7.
... good sense is pleasanter company than a general scholar ; and Sir Andrew having a natural unaffected eloquence , the perspicuity of hav clearness his discourse gives the same pleasure that wit would in The Spectator Club . 7.
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... nature Will calls the studying of mankind , and terms this knowledge of the town , the knowledge of the world . Will ... natural , and well enough for a mere man of the town ; but , very unluckily , several of the words were wrong spelt ...
... nature Will calls the studying of mankind , and terms this knowledge of the town , the knowledge of the world . Will ... natural , and well enough for a mere man of the town ; but , very unluckily , several of the words were wrong spelt ...
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... natural tendency to make him vain and arrogant . Spectator No. 106. The Spectator's observations at Sir Roger's country - house . Having often received an invitation from my friend Sir Roger de Coverley to pass away a month with him in ...
... natural tendency to make him vain and arrogant . Spectator No. 106. The Spectator's observations at Sir Roger's country - house . Having often received an invitation from my friend Sir Roger de Coverley to pass away a month with him in ...
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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