Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - English literature |
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... Sir ROGER DE COVERLEY , or compose a vision like that of Mirza . But the art and the difficulty of both are such as Horace had in his mind when he said , Ut sibi quivis Speret idem : sudet multum , frustraque laboret Ausus idem . Tantum ...
... Sir ROGER DE COVERLEY , or compose a vision like that of Mirza . But the art and the difficulty of both are such as Horace had in his mind when he said , Ut sibi quivis Speret idem : sudet multum , frustraque laboret Ausus idem . Tantum ...
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... Sir Roger de Coverley and the Tory For - Hunter . Of these , the former , though the favourite of every reader of the Spectator , has been much misapprehended , and has , therefore , occasioned much disparity of opinion among the ...
... Sir Roger de Coverley and the Tory For - Hunter . Of these , the former , though the favourite of every reader of the Spectator , has been much misapprehended , and has , therefore , occasioned much disparity of opinion among the ...
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... Sir Roger for the time to come . " The reason which induced Cervantes , to bring his hero to the grave , para mi sola nacio Don Quixote , y yo para el , made Addison declare , with undue vehemence of expression , that he would kill Sir ...
... Sir Roger for the time to come . " The reason which induced Cervantes , to bring his hero to the grave , para mi sola nacio Don Quixote , y yo para el , made Addison declare , with undue vehemence of expression , that he would kill Sir ...
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... Sir Roger de Co- verley . " I am inclined to suppose , " he remarks , “ that the learned biographer had forgotten some things relating to that gentleman . " He seems to think that Addison had formed an idea of Sir Roger , which he never ...
... Sir Roger de Co- verley . " I am inclined to suppose , " he remarks , “ that the learned biographer had forgotten some things relating to that gentleman . " He seems to think that Addison had formed an idea of Sir Roger , which he never ...
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... Sir Roger we never laugh , though we generally smile ; but it is a smile , always of affection , and frequently of esteem . 66 ' Secondly , I cannot admit that there is in this character any thing of rusticity , ( as that word is ...
... Sir Roger we never laugh , though we generally smile ; but it is a smile , always of affection , and frequently of esteem . 66 ' Secondly , I cannot admit that there is in this character any thing of rusticity , ( as that word is ...
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