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Pagina xiv
... sense . Sir Roger de Coverley , with his sim- plicity , his high sense of honour , and his old - world reminiscences , reflects the country gentleman of the best kind ; Sir Andrew Freeport expresses the opinions of the enterprising ...
... sense . Sir Roger de Coverley , with his sim- plicity , his high sense of honour , and his old - world reminiscences , reflects the country gentleman of the best kind ; Sir Andrew Freeport expresses the opinions of the enterprising ...
Pagina xvii
... sense to recognize and the chivalry to avow , as had never before been recognized and avowed , the claims they can put forth to an equality of enjoyment of all that is elevated and noble in literature . If the tone of men's society was ...
... sense to recognize and the chivalry to avow , as had never before been recognized and avowed , the claims they can put forth to an equality of enjoyment of all that is elevated and noble in literature . If the tone of men's society was ...
Pagina xviii
... sense of humour , humour that while free from all bitterness was yet exquisitely penetrative , a humour , like Jaques's melancholy , " compounded of many simples , extracted from many objects . " Amiable and urbane , laughing at his ...
... sense of humour , humour that while free from all bitterness was yet exquisitely penetrative , a humour , like Jaques's melancholy , " compounded of many simples , extracted from many objects . " Amiable and urbane , laughing at his ...
Pagina xix
... sense of proportion . Johnson may justly say that " whoever wishes to attain an English style , familiar but not coarse , and elegant but not ostentatious , must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison . " He must do so ...
... sense of proportion . Johnson may justly say that " whoever wishes to attain an English style , familiar but not coarse , and elegant but not ostentatious , must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison . " He must do so ...
Pagina 5
... his behaviour , but his singularities proceed from his good sense , and are contradictions to the manners of the world , only as 30 he thinks the world is in the wrong . However THE SPECTATOR'S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF . 5 Of the Club, -
... his behaviour , but his singularities proceed from his good sense , and are contradictions to the manners of the world , only as 30 he thinks the world is in the wrong . However THE SPECTATOR'S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF . 5 Of the Club, -
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