The North American Review, Volume 64Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1847 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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Page 316
... Addison's humor no one can trace any of these faults of taste , spirit , or feeling ; it plays like sunbeams through the broken clouds upon the landscape , lighting it up with gladness . Nature herself is not more exempt from severity ...
... Addison's humor no one can trace any of these faults of taste , spirit , or feeling ; it plays like sunbeams through the broken clouds upon the landscape , lighting it up with gladness . Nature herself is not more exempt from severity ...
Page 317
... will find , that no style can be extensively popular and pleasing which is not a true and direct expression of the writer's way of thinking . It is not enslaved to any particular form ; it is bound by 1847. ] 317 Aikin's Life of Addison .
... will find , that no style can be extensively popular and pleasing which is not a true and direct expression of the writer's way of thinking . It is not enslaved to any particular form ; it is bound by 1847. ] 317 Aikin's Life of Addison .
Page 318
... Addison , because it rep- resents as truly the movements of his ponderous and gigan- tic mind . But the character of this distinguished man is a more important consideration than his talents or his style ; indeed , it was this which ...
... Addison , because it rep- resents as truly the movements of his ponderous and gigan- tic mind . But the character of this distinguished man is a more important consideration than his talents or his style ; indeed , it was this which ...
Page 319
... Addison can be traced home to the authority of Pope , who , though in some respects a good man , was notoriously ... Addison had had the presumptive evidence of Toryism in his 1847. ] 319 Aikin's Life of Addison .
... Addison can be traced home to the authority of Pope , who , though in some respects a good man , was notoriously ... Addison had had the presumptive evidence of Toryism in his 1847. ] 319 Aikin's Life of Addison .
Page 320
... Addison rests on Spence's authority alone . We do not suppose that Pope told his humble chronicler what he did not himself believe ; the term malignity , which Johnson employs , must be received with some discount for his habitual ...
... Addison rests on Spence's authority alone . We do not suppose that Pope told his humble chronicler what he did not himself believe ; the term malignity , which Johnson employs , must be received with some discount for his habitual ...
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