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Pagina iii
... Genius for Poetry . In his twenty - second year Addison first appeared before the Public as an English Poet , in a short copy of Verses addressed to Dryden ; this was followed by a Version of the Fourth Georgic of Virgil , and various ...
... Genius for Poetry . In his twenty - second year Addison first appeared before the Public as an English Poet , in a short copy of Verses addressed to Dryden ; this was followed by a Version of the Fourth Georgic of Virgil , and various ...
Pagina xii
... genius , which was already rapidly developing itself . He had , at twelve years of age , written " An Ode to Solitude ; " two years afterward he translated the first book of Statius's " Thebais , " and Ovid's " Epistle of Sappho to ...
... genius , which was already rapidly developing itself . He had , at twelve years of age , written " An Ode to Solitude ; " two years afterward he translated the first book of Statius's " Thebais , " and Ovid's " Epistle of Sappho to ...
Pagina xiv
... genius , learned and acute , but an Infidel . The consequence was that , while intent upon inculcating religious and moral precepts , he was unwittingly promulgating the dogmas of the Fatalist and the Theist . This brought upon him a ...
... genius , learned and acute , but an Infidel . The consequence was that , while intent upon inculcating religious and moral precepts , he was unwittingly promulgating the dogmas of the Fatalist and the Theist . This brought upon him a ...
Pagina xx
... genius and unusual powers which had originally adorned his comprehensive mind . He died on the 29th of Octo- ber , 1745 , in his 78th year . The domestic history of Swift has been the subject of much discussion , from the ex ...
... genius and unusual powers which had originally adorned his comprehensive mind . He died on the 29th of Octo- ber , 1745 , in his 78th year . The domestic history of Swift has been the subject of much discussion , from the ex ...
Pagina 33
... genius of the con- versation . What a happy conjunction of different talents meets in him whose whole discourse is at once animated by the strength and force of reason , and adorned with all the graces and embellish- ments of wit ! When ...
... genius of the con- versation . What a happy conjunction of different talents meets in him whose whole discourse is at once animated by the strength and force of reason , and adorned with all the graces and embellish- ments of wit ! When ...
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