Such a mark of national respect was due to the unsullied statesman, to the accomplished scholar, to the master of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners. It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone knew how to... Quiet Hours in Poets' Corner - Página 41por Stephen Coleridge - 1925 - 130 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Reginald Blunt - 1921 - 360 páginas
...day's Spectator, in his hand. Such a mark of national respect was due to the unsullied states man, to the accomplished scholar, to the master of pure...eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners." I feel convinced that boundary rivulet has a little changed its channel, and that Sandford Manor was... | |
| Edwin Campbell Woolley - 1926 - 380 páginas
...consequently Addison brought out a false conclusion while Steele blundered upon the truth. 25. It was due to the great satirist who alone knew how to use ridicule...inflicting a wound effected a great social reform who reconciled wit and virtue after a long and disastrous separation during which wit had been led... | |
| 1878 - 900 páginas
...the bombast, buffoonery and conceits which degraded the theatre, substituted good sense and humour. To the great satirist who alone knew how to use ridicule...effected a great social reform, and who reconciled wit with virtue, after a long and disastrous separation, during which wit had been led astray by profligacy... | |
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