Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... character , or at least to mark it by severer lines of distinction . It is already pretty well known , that Addison had no very intimate acquaintance with the literature of his own country . It is known , also , that he did not think ...
... character , or at least to mark it by severer lines of distinction . It is already pretty well known , that Addison had no very intimate acquaintance with the literature of his own country . It is known , also , that he did not think ...
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... character and manners , or in the exquisite delicacies of his hu- But assuredly Addison , as a poet , was amongst the sons of the feeble ; and between the authors of Cato and of King Lear there was a gulf never to be bridged over.4 mor ...
... character and manners , or in the exquisite delicacies of his hu- But assuredly Addison , as a poet , was amongst the sons of the feeble ; and between the authors of Cato and of King Lear there was a gulf never to be bridged over.4 mor ...
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... character of a criminal , from the persecutions of Sir Thomas Lucy of Charle- et . This tale has long been propagated under two separate impulses . Chiefly , perhaps , under the vulgar love of pointed and glaring contrasts ; the ...
... character of a criminal , from the persecutions of Sir Thomas Lucy of Charle- et . This tale has long been propagated under two separate impulses . Chiefly , perhaps , under the vulgar love of pointed and glaring contrasts ; the ...
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... character , as this very trespass upon what were regarded as feræ naturæ , and not at all as domestic property . But had it been other- wise , a trespass was not punishable with whipping ; nor had Sir Thomas Lucy the power to irritate a ...
... character , as this very trespass upon what were regarded as feræ naturæ , and not at all as domestic property . But had it been other- wise , a trespass was not punishable with whipping ; nor had Sir Thomas Lucy the power to irritate a ...
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... character of call - boy or deputy prompter , whose business it was to summon each performer according to his order of coming upon the stage . This story , however , quite as much as the other , is irreconcilable with the discovery ...
... character of call - boy or deputy prompter , whose business it was to summon each performer according to his order of coming upon the stage . This story , however , quite as much as the other , is irreconcilable with the discovery ...
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