 | 1843 - 586 pages
...separately ; yet the five or six hundred essays form a whole, and a whole which has the interest of a novel. It must be remembered, too, that at that time no novel,...common life and manners of England, had appeared. Richardson was working as a compositor. Fielding was robbing birds' nests. Smollett was not yet born.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 614 pages
...separately ; yet the five or six hundred essays form a whole, and a whole which has the interest of a novel. It must be remembered, too, that at that time no novel,...common life and manners of England, had appeared. Richardson was working as a compositor. Fielding was robbing birds' nests. Smollet was not yet born.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1844 - 446 pages
...separately; yet the five or six hundred essays form a whole, and a whole which has the interest of a novel. It must be remembered, too, that at that time no novel,...common life and manners of England, had appeared. Richardson was working as a compositor. Fielding was robbing birds' nests. Smollett was not yet born.... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...separately ; yet the five or six hundred essays form a whole, and a whole which has the interest of a novel. It must be remembered, too, that at that time no novel,...common life and manners of England, had appeared. Richardson was working as a compositor. Fielding was robbing birds' nests. Smollett was not yet born.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 pages
...separately ; yet the five or six hundred essays form a whole, and a whole which has the interest of a novel. It must be remembered, too, that at that time, no...the common life and manners of England had appeared. Richardson was working as a compositor. Fielding was robbing bird's nests. Smollett was not yet born.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 584 pages
...separately ; yet the five or six hundred essays form a whole, and a whole which has the interest of a novel. It must be remembered, too, that at that time, no...was working as a compositor. Fielding was robbing bird's nests. Smollett was not yet born. The narrative, therefore, which connects together the Spectator's... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 pages
...separately ; yet the five or six hundred essays form a whole, and a whole which has the interest of a novel. It must be remembered, too, that at that time, no...the common life and manners of England had appeared. Richardson was working as a compositor. Fielding was robbing bird's nests. Smollett was not yet born.... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1859 - 536 pages
...amongst the imperfectly educated than amongst those of higher refinement. It has been said, that " no novel, giving a lively and powerful picture of...the common life and manners of England, had appeared " before the time of the " Spectator ; " that the narrative which connects together these essays, "... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1078 pages
...separately ; jet the five or six hundred essays form a whole, and a whole which has the interest of a novel. It must be remembered, too, that at that time no novel,...common life and manners of England, had appeared. Richardson was working as a compositor. Fielding was robbing birds' nests. Smollett was not yet born.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1088 pages
...separately ; yet the five or six hundred essays form a whole, and a whole which has the interest of a novel. It must be remembered, too, that at that time no novel,...common life and manners of England, had appeared. Richardson was working as a compositor. Fielding was robbing birds' nests. Smollett was not yet born.... | |
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Every valuable essay in the series may be read with pleasure separately; yet the five or six hundred essays form a whole, and a whole which has the interest of a novel. It must be remembered, too, that at that time no novel, giving a lively and powerful... 
