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Strana xxiv
... learning . It may be admitted that he was better versed in classics than his friend , but it has to be set against this that Steele possessed many qualities even more essential to an essayist than extensive learning . His was an ...
... learning . It may be admitted that he was better versed in classics than his friend , but it has to be set against this that Steele possessed many qualities even more essential to an essayist than extensive learning . His was an ...
Strana xxx
... learning and critical acumen , his moralizings are not in advance of Pope's , and his style is purposely loose ; but with all this he possessed a quite exceptional power of graceful and euphonious expression , and a complete mastery of ...
... learning and critical acumen , his moralizings are not in advance of Pope's , and his style is purposely loose ; but with all this he possessed a quite exceptional power of graceful and euphonious expression , and a complete mastery of ...
Strana xxxi
... learning . " Reformations of manners and customs are not , how- ever , easily effected by strokes of the pen . This panegyric must be accepted with some qualification , but that the Tatler and Spectator did excellent service in the way ...
... learning . " Reformations of manners and customs are not , how- ever , easily effected by strokes of the pen . This panegyric must be accepted with some qualification , but that the Tatler and Spectator did excellent service in the way ...
Strana xlii
... learning are always overpaid by gratitude . An elevated genius employed in little things appears , to use the simile of Longinus , like the sun in his evening declination : he remits his splendour but retains his magnitude , and pleases ...
... learning are always overpaid by gratitude . An elevated genius employed in little things appears , to use the simile of Longinus , like the sun in his evening declination : he remits his splendour but retains his magnitude , and pleases ...
Strana 24
... learning on the 1 A privilege allowed only to young beaux . In Tatler , No. 246 , Steele reproves " a fat fellow for wearing his breast open in the midst of winter out of an affectation of youth " . • An institution that first came into ...
... learning on the 1 A privilege allowed only to young beaux . In Tatler , No. 246 , Steele reproves " a fat fellow for wearing his breast open in the midst of winter out of an affectation of youth " . • An institution that first came into ...
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