Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 5J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 |
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ADDISON ( July 1843 ) The Life of Joseph Addison . BY LUCY AIKIN . 2 vols . 8vo . London : 1843 . SOME reviewers are of opinion that a lady who dares to publish a book ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ADDISON ( July 1843 ) The Life of Joseph Addison . BY LUCY AIKIN . 2 vols . 8vo . London : 1843 . SOME reviewers are of opinion that a lady who dares to publish a book ...
Page 173
... Addison . Now , we mean no reproach to Miss Aikin , and many will think that we pay her a compliment , when we say that her studies have taken a different direction . She is better acquainted with Shakspeare and Raleigh , than with ...
... Addison . Now , we mean no reproach to Miss Aikin , and many will think that we pay her a compliment , when we say that her studies have taken a different direction . She is better acquainted with Shakspeare and Raleigh , than with ...
Page 174
... Addison's letters is so great , that a second edition of this work may probably be required . If so , we hope that every paragraph will be revised , and that every date and fact about which there can be the smallest doubt will be ...
... Addison's letters is so great , that a second edition of this work may probably be required . If so , we hope that every paragraph will be revised , and that every date and fact about which there can be the smallest doubt will be ...
Page 175
... Addison . But the just harmony of qualities , the exact temper between the stern and the humane virtues , the habitual observ- ance of every law , not only of moral rectitude , but of moral grace and dignity , distinguish him from all ...
... Addison . But the just harmony of qualities , the exact temper between the stern and the humane virtues , the habitual observ- ance of every law , not only of moral rectitude , but of moral grace and dignity , distinguish him from all ...
Page 176
... Addison's return from Tangier , his son Joseph was born . Of Joseph's childhood we know little . He learned his rudiments at schools in his father's neighbourhood , and was then sent to the Charter House . The anecdotes which are ...
... Addison's return from Tangier , his son Joseph was born . Of Joseph's childhood we know little . He learned his rudiments at schools in his father's neighbourhood , and was then sent to the Charter House . The anecdotes which are ...
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