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Pagina v
Whatever were his other employments in Italy , he there wrote the Letter to Lord Halifax , which is juftly confidered as the most elegant , if not the most fublime , of his poetical productions . But in about two years he found it ...
Whatever were his other employments in Italy , he there wrote the Letter to Lord Halifax , which is juftly confidered as the most elegant , if not the most fublime , of his poetical productions . But in about two years he found it ...
Pagina viii
... to propriety and politenefs ; they fuperadded literature and criticifm , and fometimes towered far above their predeceffors of Italy and France , and taught , with great juftnefs of argument and dignity of language , the most ...
... to propriety and politenefs ; they fuperadded literature and criticifm , and fometimes towered far above their predeceffors of Italy and France , and taught , with great juftnefs of argument and dignity of language , the most ...
Pagina xv
Steele mentions with great tenderness , " that remarkable bafhfulness , which is a cloak that hides and muffles merit : " Chefterfield affirms that " Addifon was the most ti66 morous and awkward man that he ever faw : " And Addifon ...
Steele mentions with great tenderness , " that remarkable bafhfulness , which is a cloak that hides and muffles merit : " Chefterfield affirms that " Addifon was the most ti66 morous and awkward man that he ever faw : " And Addifon ...
Pagina xvi
... by his usefulness and dexterity , became fecretary of state ; and who died at forty - feven , after having not only ftood long in the highest rank of wit and literature , but filled one of the most important offices of state .
... by his usefulness and dexterity , became fecretary of state ; and who died at forty - feven , after having not only ftood long in the highest rank of wit and literature , but filled one of the most important offices of state .
Pagina xxiii
MY LORD , I SHOULD not act the part of an impartial Spectator , if I dedicated the following papers to one who is not of the most consummate and most acknowledged merit . None but a perfon of a finished character , be the proper patron ...
MY LORD , I SHOULD not act the part of an impartial Spectator , if I dedicated the following papers to one who is not of the most consummate and most acknowledged merit . None but a perfon of a finished character , be the proper patron ...
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