Essays on the Eighteenth Century: Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday |
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... beauty ( ornamentum ) as it possesses comes chiefly cultu et habitatione hominum.1 The position of Addison in this story is very interesting . He divides the sources of imaginative pleasure into three classes— the Great , the Uncommon ...
... beauty ( ornamentum ) as it possesses comes chiefly cultu et habitatione hominum.1 The position of Addison in this story is very interesting . He divides the sources of imaginative pleasure into three classes— the Great , the Uncommon ...
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... beauty , and though the beauty of a virtuous action now chiefly de- tained him , he still had his use for sensuous experiences and fancies : Xs To happy Convents , bosom'd deep in vines , Where slumber Abbots , purple as their wines ...
... beauty , and though the beauty of a virtuous action now chiefly de- tained him , he still had his use for sensuous experiences and fancies : Xs To happy Convents , bosom'd deep in vines , Where slumber Abbots , purple as their wines ...
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... beauty in conceal- ment , it was Waller's lines he associated with this idea . In ' Go , Lovely Rose ' , Waller had written Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied , That hadst thou sprung In deserts , where no men ...
... beauty in conceal- ment , it was Waller's lines he associated with this idea . In ' Go , Lovely Rose ' , Waller had written Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied , That hadst thou sprung In deserts , where no men ...
Contents
DAVID NICHOL SMITH From a drawing by SIR MUIRHEAD BONE Frontispiece | 15 |
DEANE SWIFT HAWKESWORTH AND THE JOURNAL TO STELLA HAROLD WILLIAMS | 33 |
POPE AT WORK GEORGE SHERBURN Harvard University | 65 |
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