Essays on the Eighteenth Century: Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday |
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... true poetry is that it ' pleases all kinds of palates ' , whereas the Gothic manner pleases ' only such as have formed to themselves a wrong artificial taste upon little fanciful authors ' . It is , therefore , to be expected that ...
... true poetry is that it ' pleases all kinds of palates ' , whereas the Gothic manner pleases ' only such as have formed to themselves a wrong artificial taste upon little fanciful authors ' . It is , therefore , to be expected that ...
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... true that the Good is the enemy of the Best , it would be hard to defend Addison . His Rational Piety , his smiling indulgence to ' the fair sex ' , his > small idealisms about trade , certainly fall short of actual Chris- tianity , and ...
... true that the Good is the enemy of the Best , it would be hard to defend Addison . His Rational Piety , his smiling indulgence to ' the fair sex ' , his > small idealisms about trade , certainly fall short of actual Chris- tianity , and ...
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... true of Addison here is true also of Steele and Swift , and of most of their contemporaries . When George Faulkner , the Dublin bookseller , was seeing his edition of Swift's Works through the press , he used to wait on Swift and read ...
... true of Addison here is true also of Steele and Swift , and of most of their contemporaries . When George Faulkner , the Dublin bookseller , was seeing his edition of Swift's Works through the press , he used to wait on Swift and read ...
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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