Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 1Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - Authors, English |
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... . Such were the abortive attempts at periodical composition before Steele had planned his admir- * Vide Life of De Foe by Chalmers , p . 21. 22. 72. 73 . able papers . To correct ludicrous folly , however , 24 GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
... . Such were the abortive attempts at periodical composition before Steele had planned his admir- * Vide Life of De Foe by Chalmers , p . 21. 22. 72. 73 . able papers . To correct ludicrous folly , however , 24 GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
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... correct ludicrous folly , however , by ridicule , to regulate the decencies and duties of mutual intercourse and conversation , to abash vice , to encourage literature , and to attain variety by multiplicity of subject , had been the ...
... correct ludicrous folly , however , by ridicule , to regulate the decencies and duties of mutual intercourse and conversation , to abash vice , to encourage literature , and to attain variety by multiplicity of subject , had been the ...
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... correct , we ought to hesitate in assigning the epithet of Augustan to this era of our history . We should recollect that two - thirds of the reign of Anne were en◅ ⚫ Johnson's Life of Addison - Lives of the Poets , vol . ii . tirely ...
... correct , we ought to hesitate in assigning the epithet of Augustan to this era of our history . We should recollect that two - thirds of the reign of Anne were en◅ ⚫ Johnson's Life of Addison - Lives of the Poets , vol . ii . tirely ...
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... correct and pure , and which fosters in her bosom every rising genius , that the title of Augustan can be given , and not to the casual appearance of a few luminaries , sur- rounded by wastes of interminable darkness . That extension of ...
... correct and pure , and which fosters in her bosom every rising genius , that the title of Augustan can be given , and not to the casual appearance of a few luminaries , sur- rounded by wastes of interminable darkness . That extension of ...
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... correct , we possessed scarcely a specimen of good style , from the death of Tillotson in 1694 to the appearance of the Tat lers . * One great cause of this defalcation , as hath been hinted before , is to be attributed to the warmth of ...
... correct , we possessed scarcely a specimen of good style , from the death of Tillotson in 1694 to the appearance of the Tat lers . * One great cause of this defalcation , as hath been hinted before , is to be attributed to the warmth of ...
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