English Prose of the Eighteenth CenturyCecil Albert Moore |
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... Taste as the utmost perfection of an accomplished man . As this word arises . very often in conversation , I shall en- deavour to give some account of it , and to lay down rules how we may know whether we are possessed of it , and how ...
... Taste as the utmost perfection of an accomplished man . As this word arises . very often in conversation , I shall en- deavour to give some account of it , and to lay down rules how we may know whether we are possessed of it , and how ...
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... taste may discourse upon , would enter into the very spirit and soul of fine writing , and show us the several sources of that pleas- ure which rises in the mind upon the perusal of a noble work . Thus although in poetry it be ...
... taste may discourse upon , would enter into the very spirit and soul of fine writing , and show us the several sources of that pleas- ure which rises in the mind upon the perusal of a noble work . Thus although in poetry it be ...
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... taste is a quality with which human na- ture is very slenderly gifted . It is indeed so very rare , and so little known , that scarce two authors have agreed in their notions of it ; and those who have en- deavoured to explain it to ...
... taste is a quality with which human na- ture is very slenderly gifted . It is indeed so very rare , and so little known , that scarce two authors have agreed in their notions of it ; and those who have en- deavoured to explain it to ...
Contents
PREFACE | 4 |
THE POOR MANS PLEA | 14 |
THE SHORTEST WAY WITH THE DISSENTERS | 23 |
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able Addison admiration Æneid affection appear atheism Bargrave beauty better body called cerned character Church Church of England Cicero common consider creature death desire discourse endeavour enemy England English entertainment eral fear fortune freethinkers genius gentleman give hand hath honour horse House of Hanover Houyhnhnms Hudibras human humour Iliad Isaac Bickerstaff Juvenal kind King lady learning least live look Lord mankind manner master means ment mind moral nation nature ness never noble observed occasion opinion passion persons pleased pleasure poet poor pretend prince reader reason religion Richard Steele ridicule sense servants Sir Roger Steele taste Tatler tell temper Theocles things Thomas D'Urfey thought tion told Tom Jones town ture turn Veal vice Virgil virtue Whig whole word writing Yahoos young