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... the student and the general reader . The works selected are carefully edited , with biographical and critical introductions , full explanatory notes , and other neces- sary apparatus . THI NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ARTUR LANJI YILDAN 1 1.
... the student and the general reader . The works selected are carefully edited , with biographical and critical introductions , full explanatory notes , and other neces- sary apparatus . THI NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ARTUR LANJI YILDAN 1 1.
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... READER . XX . A LETTER TO A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT XXI . DEDICATION TO MRS . STEELE OF THE THIRD VOLUME OF THE LADIES ' LIBRARY XXII . MR . STEELE'S APOLOGY FOR HIMSELF AND HIS PAGE 126 126 127 135 143 148 154 159 162 • WRITINGS . 164 ...
... READER . XX . A LETTER TO A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT XXI . DEDICATION TO MRS . STEELE OF THE THIRD VOLUME OF THE LADIES ' LIBRARY XXII . MR . STEELE'S APOLOGY FOR HIMSELF AND HIS PAGE 126 126 127 135 143 148 154 159 162 • WRITINGS . 164 ...
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... Reader , which for its nine numbers was in direct opposition to the Examiner , and in several pamphlets . The Queen died August 1 , and George I. , a few weeks after his arrival in England , made Steele , the valiant defender of the ...
... Reader , which for its nine numbers was in direct opposition to the Examiner , and in several pamphlets . The Queen died August 1 , and George I. , a few weeks after his arrival in England , made Steele , the valiant defender of the ...
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... reader is referred to a companion volume of this series . Born in the same year as Steele , Addison was destined to be closely associated with him through life . He was for two years at Charterhouse with him , and he was at Oxford ...
... reader is referred to a companion volume of this series . Born in the same year as Steele , Addison was destined to be closely associated with him through life . He was for two years at Charterhouse with him , and he was at Oxford ...
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... reader , and each succeeding generation saw the system of communication more thoroughly organized . VI . STEELE'S POEMS , HIS POLITICAL AND ETHICAL WRIT- INGS , HIS LETTERS , AND HIS PLAYS . Steele's poetical performance was exceedingly ...
... reader , and each succeeding generation saw the system of communication more thoroughly organized . VI . STEELE'S POEMS , HIS POLITICAL AND ETHICAL WRIT- INGS , HIS LETTERS , AND HIS PLAYS . Steele's poetical performance was exceedingly ...
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Page 69 - ... was willing to play with me. I remember I went into the room where his body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a beating the coffin, and calling Papa; for, I know not how, I had some slight idea that he was locked up there.
Page 82 - His familiarity with the customs, manners, actions, and writings of the ancients, makes him a very delicate observer of what occurs to him in the present world.
Page 81 - It is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him.
Page 82 - ... town and country; a great lover of mankind; but there is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour, that he is rather beloved than esteemed. His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company. When he comes into a house he calls the servants by their names, and talks all the way upstairs to a visit.
Page 81 - All who know that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger. He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world, only as he thinks the world is in the wrong.
Page 83 - A person of indefatigable industry, strong reason, and great experience. His notions of trade are noble and generous, and (as every rich man has usually some sly way of jesting, which would make no great figure were he not a rich man) he calls the sea the British Common.
Page 70 - She was a very beautiful woman, of a noble spirit, and there was a dignity in her grief amidst all the wildness of her transport which, methought, struck me with an instinct of sorrow, that, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since.
Page 56 - ... express the pleasure it is to be met by the children with so much joy as I am when I go thither. The boys and girls strive who shall come first, when they think it is I that am knocking at the door; and that child which loses the race to me runs back again to tell the father it is Mr.
Page 85 - ... in a word, all his conversation and knowledge has been in the female world. As other men of his age will take notice to you what such a minister said upon such and such an occasion, he will tell you when the Duke of Monmouth danced at court such a woman was then smitten, another was taken with him at the head of his troop in the Park.
Page 84 - Roger, he has quitted a way of life in which no man can rise suitably to his merit, who is not something of a courtier, as well as a soldier. I have heard him often lament, that in a profession where merit is placed in so conspicuous a view, impudence should get the better of modesty. When he...