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Pagina 50
... Addison , I have ever conversed with , were persons of the best tempers . Dorset possessed the rare secret of uniting energy with ease , in his striking compositions . His verses to Mr. Edward Howard , to Sir Thomas St. Serfe , his epi ...
... Addison , I have ever conversed with , were persons of the best tempers . Dorset possessed the rare secret of uniting energy with ease , in his striking compositions . His verses to Mr. Edward Howard , to Sir Thomas St. Serfe , his epi ...
Pagina 127
... ADDISON may be compared with the most finished touches of LA BRUYERE . But the Epistles we are now entering upon will place the matter beyond a dispute ; for the French can boast of no author who has so much exhausted the science of ...
... ADDISON may be compared with the most finished touches of LA BRUYERE . But the Epistles we are now entering upon will place the matter beyond a dispute ; for the French can boast of no author who has so much exhausted the science of ...
Pagina 178
... Addison's Letter from Italy , yet he said the poet had spoken in terms too general of the finest buildings and paintings , and without much difcrimination of taste . + " Who had both taste and zeal for the present style , " says Mr ...
... Addison's Letter from Italy , yet he said the poet had spoken in terms too general of the finest buildings and paintings , and without much difcrimination of taste . + " Who had both taste and zeal for the present style , " says Mr ...
Pagina 203
... Addison * , upon his treatise on medals , written in that pleasing form of compo- sition so unsuccessfully attempted by many modern authors , DIALOGUE . In no one species of writing have the ancients so in- disputable a fuperiority over ...
... Addison * , upon his treatise on medals , written in that pleasing form of compo- sition so unsuccessfully attempted by many modern authors , DIALOGUE . In no one species of writing have the ancients so in- disputable a fuperiority over ...
Pagina 204
... ADDISON'S Treatise on Medals ; and the Minute Phi- losopher of Bishop BERKLEY . " ALCI- PHRON did , indeed , well deserve to be mentioned on this occafion ; notwith- standing it has been treated with contempt by writers much inferior to ...
... ADDISON'S Treatise on Medals ; and the Minute Phi- losopher of Bishop BERKLEY . " ALCI- PHRON did , indeed , well deserve to be mentioned on this occafion ; notwith- standing it has been treated with contempt by writers much inferior to ...
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