Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer, & Idler, and of the Various Periodical Papers Which, in Imitation of the Writings of Steele and Addison, Have Been Published Between the Close of the Eighth Volume of the Spectator, and the Commencement of the Year 1809, Volumen1J. Seeley, 1809 - 499 páginas |
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... writers , who were actuated by no other motives than those of envy and ill - nature . Of a few of these antagonists , Addison has conde- scended to take some notice in the Tatler , No 229 , and has probably preserved the names of ...
... writers , who were actuated by no other motives than those of envy and ill - nature . Of a few of these antagonists , Addison has conde- scended to take some notice in the Tatler , No 229 , and has probably preserved the names of ...
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... , and the best political writer in Great Britain . Though this be doubtless exaggerated praise , Mr. Mayn- , waring is entitled to most respectable distinction for his good sense and moderation in politics , at PERIODICAL PAPERS . 13.
... , and the best political writer in Great Britain . Though this be doubtless exaggerated praise , Mr. Mayn- , waring is entitled to most respectable distinction for his good sense and moderation in politics , at PERIODICAL PAPERS . 13.
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... writer , was the son of an Attorney in the county of Wiltshire , and , after the usual routine of education , was in 1668 entered at Edmund Hall , Oxford . He took his degree of M. A. in this university , in 1676 , where he resided ...
... writer , was the son of an Attorney in the county of Wiltshire , and , after the usual routine of education , was in 1668 entered at Edmund Hall , Oxford . He took his degree of M. A. in this university , in 1676 , where he resided ...
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... writer among the Romans generally chose to cast his thoughts , was that of dialogue , or of con- versations related , in which the persons intro- duced were all philosophers , and the discourses wholly serious ; yet this he borrowed ...
... writer among the Romans generally chose to cast his thoughts , was that of dialogue , or of con- versations related , in which the persons intro- duced were all philosophers , and the discourses wholly serious ; yet this he borrowed ...
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... writer , and avoid striking into the paths he had trod ; and still a harder , to invent new subjects , and work upon them with any degree of the same genius and deli- cacy . This the publishers of the Censor knew so well , that they ...
... writer , and avoid striking into the paths he had trod ; and still a harder , to invent new subjects , and work upon them with any degree of the same genius and deli- cacy . This the publishers of the Censor knew so well , that they ...
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