Historical and Biographical Essays: Biographical: Daniel De Foe. Sir Richard Steele. Charles Churchill. Samuel FooteJ. Murray, 1858 |
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... Steele not to be Addi- son , nor to Addison not to be Steele . 114 The Levelling circumstance in all characters - Danger of putting it forward - Privacies denied to Public men 115 Depreciation of Steele's genius - Alleged inability to ...
... Steele not to be Addi- son , nor to Addison not to be Steele . 114 The Levelling circumstance in all characters - Danger of putting it forward - Privacies denied to Public men 115 Depreciation of Steele's genius - Alleged inability to ...
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... Steele's distinction from other wits and humourists - A something Inde- pendant of Authorship - The Man delightful ... Steele's writings- " A Pleasant small Drink " kept too long 133 Vicissitudes to which Old Reputations are subject ...
... Steele's distinction from other wits and humourists - A something Inde- pendant of Authorship - The Man delightful ... Steele's writings- " A Pleasant small Drink " kept too long 133 Vicissitudes to which Old Reputations are subject ...
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... Steele's kind heart and just philosophy - Actual Experiences - Human habits always changing - Unchanging habits of ... Steele - At the Charter House - His most important Acquisition there • 155 • Friendship with Joseph Addison - Visits ...
... Steele's kind heart and just philosophy - Actual Experiences - Human habits always changing - Unchanging habits of ... Steele - At the Charter House - His most important Acquisition there • 155 • Friendship with Joseph Addison - Visits ...
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... Steele and Addison to Swift - Charles Fox's theory about him - Addison's eulogy upon him - His wonderful Social Charm The Triumvirate - Addison's Rosamund , and its failure - Steele's Lying Lover , its Catastrophe and the cause thereof ...
... Steele and Addison to Swift - Charles Fox's theory about him - Addison's eulogy upon him - His wonderful Social Charm The Triumvirate - Addison's Rosamund , and its failure - Steele's Lying Lover , its Catastrophe and the cause thereof ...
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... Steele's distress . • • An Execution for rent - Addison appointed Irish Secretary - Steele a candidate for office - Farewell supper - Godfather Addison First Number of the Tatler - Swift probably in the secret - Addison not consulted ...
... Steele's distress . • • An Execution for rent - Addison appointed Irish Secretary - Steele a candidate for office - Farewell supper - Godfather Addison First Number of the Tatler - Swift probably in the secret - Addison not consulted ...
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Seite 127 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven to inhabit among Men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses.
Seite 136 - like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.
Seite 138 - ... much joy as I am when I go thither: the boys and girls strive who shall come first, when they think it is I that am knocking at the door; and that child which loses the race to me, runs back again to tell the father it is Mr.
Seite 163 - Look yonder, that hale, well-looking puppy ! You ungrateful scoundrel, did not I pity you, take you out of a great man's service, and show you the pleasure of receiving wages ? Did not I give you ten, then fifteen, now twenty shillings a week, to be sorrowful ? and the more I give you, I think, the gladder you are.
Seite 355 - So he died, and .she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the Garyulies, and the grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top; and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.
Seite 155 - ... papa could not hear me, and would play with me no more, for they were going to put him under ground, whence he could never come to us again. She was a very beautiful woman, of a noble spirit, and there was a dignity in her grief amidst all the wildness of her transport, which, methought, struck me with an instinct of sorrow, which, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since.
Seite 166 - I told him there was nothing I so ardently wished as that we might some time or other publish a work written by us both, which should bear the name of 'The Monument,
Seite 154 - ... the heart, and makes it beat with due time, without being quickened with desire, or retarded with despair, from its proper and equal motion. When we wind up a clock that is out of order, to make it go well for the future, we do not immediately set the hand to the present instant, but we make it strike the round of all its hours, before it can recover the regularity of its time. Such...
Seite 140 - Fables: but he frankly declared to me his mind, " that he did not delight in that learning, because he did not believe they were true;" for which reason I found he had very much turned his studies, for about a twelvemonth past, into the lives and adventures of Don Bellianis of Greece, Guy of Warwick, the Seven Champions, and other historians of that age.
Seite 227 - WITH that low cunning, which in fools supplies, And amply too, the place of being wise, Which Nature, kind, indulgent parent ! gave To qualify the blockhead for a knave...