The English Essay and EssayistJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1934 - 343 pages |
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... Addison the question of character is strictly relevant to a judgment on his literary work . Few English authors more accurately and exactly reveal themselves in their writings ; and Addison has been so long accepted as the safest model ...
... Addison the question of character is strictly relevant to a judgment on his literary work . Few English authors more accurately and exactly reveal themselves in their writings ; and Addison has been so long accepted as the safest model ...
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... Addison " the note of provinciality . " Addison's prose , says Arnold , " is Attic prose ; " and he contrasts it , to its advantage , with the " Asiatic " prose of Burke , whom he thinks to be our greatest English prose - writer . But ...
... Addison " the note of provinciality . " Addison's prose , says Arnold , " is Attic prose ; " and he contrasts it , to its advantage , with the " Asiatic " prose of Burke , whom he thinks to be our greatest English prose - writer . But ...
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... Addison . It brought out all that was best in him , and tended to conceal his deficiencies ; and so it has helped to keep him in a place somewhat loftier than his merits entitle him to . Addison was a moralist ; and The Tatler and The ...
... Addison . It brought out all that was best in him , and tended to conceal his deficiencies ; and so it has helped to keep him in a place somewhat loftier than his merits entitle him to . Addison was a moralist ; and The Tatler and The ...
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