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... and was in too genuine accord with the spirit of a time then distant but now come, to doubt that, when he was dead, his whole life's work would speak truth for him to posterity. The friendship of which this work is the monument remained.
... and was in too genuine accord with the spirit of a time then distant but now come, to doubt that, when he was dead, his whole life's work would speak truth for him to posterity. The friendship of which this work is the monument remained.
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... to give it strength and harmony, by doing then what, in the course of nature, we have learnt again to do, now that the patronage of literature has gone from the cultivated noble who appreciates in much accordance with the fashion of his ...
... to give it strength and harmony, by doing then what, in the course of nature, we have learnt again to do, now that the patronage of literature has gone from the cultivated noble who appreciates in much accordance with the fashion of his ...
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... the professional man teaching rules of his own art, belongs to a too didactic manner. Nothing was more repugnant to Steele's nature than the sense of this. He had defined the Christian as 'one who is always a benefactor, with the mien ...
... the professional man teaching rules of his own art, belongs to a too didactic manner. Nothing was more repugnant to Steele's nature than the sense of this. He had defined the Christian as 'one who is always a benefactor, with the mien ...
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J. ADDISON. caused Addison to be applied to for his poem of the ' Campaign ' . It was after the appearance of this poem that Steele's play was printed , with the dedication to his friend , in which he said , ' I look upon my intimacy with ...
J. ADDISON. caused Addison to be applied to for his poem of the ' Campaign ' . It was after the appearance of this poem that Steele's play was printed , with the dedication to his friend , in which he said , ' I look upon my intimacy with ...
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J. ADDISON. thoughts that might jar with the humour of the town; and thus Steele was able to claim, by right of his third play, 'the honour of being the only English dramatist who had had a piece damned for its piety.' This was the 'Lying ...
J. ADDISON. thoughts that might jar with the humour of the town; and thus Steele was able to claim, by right of his third play, 'the honour of being the only English dramatist who had had a piece damned for its piety.' This was the 'Lying ...
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