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Pagina viii
The Tatler and Spectator reduced the unfettled practice of daily intercourse to propriety and politenefs ; they fuperadded literature and criticifm , and fometimes towered far above their predeceffors of Italy and France , and taught ...
The Tatler and Spectator reduced the unfettled practice of daily intercourse to propriety and politenefs ; they fuperadded literature and criticifm , and fometimes towered far above their predeceffors of Italy and France , and taught ...
Pagina xi
This was undertaken in defence of the established government , fometimes with argument , fometimes with mirth . In argument he had many equals ; but his humour was fingular and matchlefs . " On the 2d of August 1716 , he married the ...
This was undertaken in defence of the established government , fometimes with argument , fometimes with mirth . In argument he had many equals ; but his humour was fingular and matchlefs . " On the 2d of August 1716 , he married the ...
Pagina xix
He has fometimes a ftriking line , or a fhining paragraph , but in the whole he is warm rather than fervid , and fhews more dextirity than ftrength . He was however one of our earliest examples of correctness . The prefent generation is ...
He has fometimes a ftriking line , or a fhining paragraph , but in the whole he is warm rather than fervid , and fhews more dextirity than ftrength . He was however one of our earliest examples of correctness . The prefent generation is ...
Pagina xx
Truth is fhewn fometimes as the phantom of a vifion , fometimes appears halfveiled in an allegory ; fometimes attracts regard in the robes of fancy , and fometimes steps forth in the confidence of reason . She wears a thousand dreffes ...
Truth is fhewn fometimes as the phantom of a vifion , fometimes appears halfveiled in an allegory ; fometimes attracts regard in the robes of fancy , and fometimes steps forth in the confidence of reason . She wears a thousand dreffes ...
Pagina xxi
It feems to have been his principal endeavour to avoid all harshnefs and feverity of diction , he is therefore fometimes verbofe in his tranfitions and connections , and fometimes defcends too much to the language of converfation ...
It feems to have been his principal endeavour to avoid all harshnefs and feverity of diction , he is therefore fometimes verbofe in his tranfitions and connections , and fometimes defcends too much to the language of converfation ...
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