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 Eight Volume of the Spectator and the Commencement of the Year 1809, Том 2J. Seeley, 1810 |
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... received ; and though the fable , from the peculiarity of its incidents , is by no means calculated for public representation , the poetry , which is much above mediocrity , ensured its success . About the period of his production of ...
... received ; and though the fable , from the peculiarity of its incidents , is by no means calculated for public representation , the poetry , which is much above mediocrity , ensured its success . About the period of his production of ...
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... received their correction and appro- bation ; the literary texture too is elegant , ani- mated , and graceful . Of the faults which have disfigured this publi- ' cation , one may be deemed venial , and was to be apprehended from the ...
... received their correction and appro- bation ; the literary texture too is elegant , ani- mated , and graceful . Of the faults which have disfigured this publi- ' cation , one may be deemed venial , and was to be apprehended from the ...
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... received in the composition of his Rambler amounted ( with the exception of four billets written by Mrs. Chapone , who will be afterwards noticed as a con- tributor to the Adventurer , and the second letter in N ° 107 , ) only to four ...
... received in the composition of his Rambler amounted ( with the exception of four billets written by Mrs. Chapone , who will be afterwards noticed as a con- tributor to the Adventurer , and the second letter in N ° 107 , ) only to four ...
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... received a second epistle from her friend . " Once before , " she remarks , " your company was a great relief to me in a melancholy time . I had then just lost the dearest and best of friends , the excellent sister of this last departed ...
... received a second epistle from her friend . " Once before , " she remarks , " your company was a great relief to me in a melancholy time . I had then just lost the dearest and best of friends , the excellent sister of this last departed ...
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... received by the public . " While I was writing the two volumes , my worthy - hearted wife , and the young lady who is with us , when I had read them some part of the story , which I had begun without their knowing it , used to come into ...
... received by the public . " While I was writing the two volumes , my worthy - hearted wife , and the young lady who is with us , when I had read them some part of the story , which I had begun without their knowing it , used to come into ...
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Страница 173 - The Student," a periodical paper printed at Oxford in 1750; to " The Union, or select Scots and English Poems," 1753; to the Oxford Collections of 1751, 1761, and 1762; to the " Oxford Sausage, or Select Poetical Pieces, written by the most celebrated Wits of the University of Oxford ;" 12mo, 1764; and to Pearch's Collection ; he contributed many very valuable effusions.