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Pagina vii
... but an arbiter elegantiarum , a judge of propriety , was yet wanting , who fhould furvey the track of daily converfation , and free it from thorns and prickles , which teaze the paffer , though they do not wound him .
... but an arbiter elegantiarum , a judge of propriety , was yet wanting , who fhould furvey the track of daily converfation , and free it from thorns and prickles , which teaze the paffer , though they do not wound him .
Pagina viii
... in a fubfequent work , that they had a perceptible influence upon the converfation of that time , and taught the frolick and the gay to unite merriment with decency ; an effect which they can never wholly lofe , while they continue ...
... in a fubfequent work , that they had a perceptible influence upon the converfation of that time , and taught the frolick and the gay to unite merriment with decency ; an effect which they can never wholly lofe , while they continue ...
Pagina xv
... and ungraceful timidity , every teftimony concurs to prove , but Chefterfield's reprefentation is doubtless hyperbolical . That man cannot be fupb 2 pofed pofed very unexpert in the arts of converfation and practice ADDISON . XV.
... and ungraceful timidity , every teftimony concurs to prove , but Chefterfield's reprefentation is doubtless hyperbolical . That man cannot be fupb 2 pofed pofed very unexpert in the arts of converfation and practice ADDISON . XV.
Pagina xvi
pofed very unexpert in the arts of converfation and practice of life , who , without fortune or alliance , by his usefulness and dexterity , became fecretary of state ; and who died at forty - feven , after having not only ftood long in ...
pofed very unexpert in the arts of converfation and practice of life , who , without fortune or alliance , by his usefulness and dexterity , became fecretary of state ; and who died at forty - feven , after having not only ftood long in ...
Pagina xviii
he knows himself fuperior , will defire to fet loofe his powers of converfation ; and who , that ever afked fuccour from Bacchus , was able to preferve himself from being enflaved by his auxiliary ? If any judgment may be made ...
he knows himself fuperior , will defire to fet loofe his powers of converfation ; and who , that ever afked fuccour from Bacchus , was able to preferve himself from being enflaved by his auxiliary ? If any judgment may be made ...
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