Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer, & Idler, and of the Various Periodical Papers Which, in Imitation of the Writings of Steele and Addison, Have Been Published Between the Close of the Eighth Volume of the Spectator, and the Commencement of the Year 1809, Том 2J. Seeley, 1810 - 499 страница |
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... taste , and practical morality , which the pages of this perio- dical paper exhibit , were such as to ensure popularity ; and it may be pronounced , as a whole , the most spirited and fascinating of the class to which it belongs . To ...
... taste , and practical morality , which the pages of this perio- dical paper exhibit , were such as to ensure popularity ; and it may be pronounced , as a whole , the most spirited and fascinating of the class to which it belongs . To ...
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... taste and reading in the neigh- bourhood . Half - a - dozen of them , when met to work with their needles , used , when they got a book they liked , and thought I should , to borrow me to read to them ; their mothers sometimes with them ...
... taste and reading in the neigh- bourhood . Half - a - dozen of them , when met to work with their needles , used , when they got a book they liked , and thought I should , to borrow me to read to them ; their mothers sometimes with them ...
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... taste of my two female friends , had the story of Moliere's Old Woman in my thoughts upon the occasion . " * Pamela was published in 1740 , and immedi ately attracted a most extraordinary degree of attention . It presented the public ...
... taste of my two female friends , had the story of Moliere's Old Woman in my thoughts upon the occasion . " * Pamela was published in 1740 , and immedi ately attracted a most extraordinary degree of attention . It presented the public ...
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... taste or judg- ment in literature , is evident from many parts of this correspondence ; what he thought of Fielding we have seen ; and , from the following extraordi- nary passage in a letter by Aaron Hill , there is much reason to ...
... taste or judg- ment in literature , is evident from many parts of this correspondence ; what he thought of Fielding we have seen ; and , from the following extraordi- nary passage in a letter by Aaron Hill , there is much reason to ...
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... taste and defective judgment of Aaron Hill are still more appa- rent in the subsequent passage , as , it is probable , that re- sentment for an introduction into the Dunciad might have occasioned his depreciation of Pope . " One might ...
... taste and defective judgment of Aaron Hill are still more appa- rent in the subsequent passage , as , it is probable , that re- sentment for an introduction into the Dunciad might have occasioned his depreciation of Pope . " One might ...
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