The British Essayists: The SpectatorJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son, W. J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, J. Sewell, R. Faulder, G. and W. Nicol, T. Payne, G. and J. Robinson, W. Lowndes, G. Wilkie, J. Mathews, P. McQueen, Ogilvy and Son, J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, Darton and Harvey, J. Nunn, Lackington and Company, D. Walker, Clarke and Son, G. Kearsley, C. Law, J. White, Longman and Rees, Cadell, Jun. and Davies, J. Barker, T. Kay, Wynne and Company, Pote and Company, Carpenter and Company, W. Miller, Murray and Highley, S. Bagster, T. Hurst, T. Boosey, R. Pheney, W. Baynes, J. Harding, R. H. Evans, J. Mawman; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1802 |
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Strana xxiii
Of ADDISON ' s humour so much has been said , that it would not be easy to vary
the praises that have been lavished for near a century . “ As a describer of life
and manners he must be allowed to stand perhaps the first of the first rank .
Of ADDISON ' s humour so much has been said , that it would not be easy to vary
the praises that have been lavished for near a century . “ As a describer of life
and manners he must be allowed to stand perhaps the first of the first rank .
Strana 161
AMONG all kinds of writing , there is none in which authors are more apt to
miscarry than in works of humour , as there is none in which they are more
ambitious to excel . It is not an imagination that teems with monsters , an head
that is filled ...
AMONG all kinds of writing , there is none in which authors are more apt to
miscarry than in works of humour , as there is none in which they are more
ambitious to excel . It is not an imagination that teems with monsters , an head
that is filled ...
Strana 162
The deceased Mr . Shadwell , who had himself a great deal of the talent which I
am treating of , represents an empty rake , in one of his plays , as very much
surprised to hear one say that breaking of windows was not humour ; and I
question ...
The deceased Mr . Shadwell , who had himself a great deal of the talent which I
am treating of , represents an empty rake , in one of his plays , as very much
surprised to hear one say that breaking of windows was not humour ; and I
question ...
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Original Dedications | lxxv |
The Spectators Account of himself ADDISON | 1 |
Advantages of the Spectators Taciturnity | 4 |
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