The variable weather of the mind, the flying vapours of incipient madness, which from time to time cloud reason, without eclipsing it, it requires so much nicety to exhibit, that Addison seems to have been deterred from prosecuting his own design. The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets - Página 66por Samuel Johnson - 1896Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 258 páginas
...much nicety to exhibit, that Addifon feems to have been deteried from profecuting .his own defign. To Sir Roger, who, as a country gentleman, appears to be a Tory, or, as it is gently expreffed, an adherent to the , landed intereft, is oppofed Sir Andrew <C 3. TreeFreeport, a new man,... | |
| samuel johnson - 1781 - 258 páginas
...fo much nicety to exhibit, that Addifon feems to have been deterred from profecuting his own defign. To Sir Roger, who, as a country gentleman, appears to be a Tory, or, as it is gently exprefled, an adherent to the landed intereft, is oppofed Sir Andrew C z FreeFreeport, a new man, a... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 254 páginas
...much nicety to exhibit, that Addifon feems to have been deterred from profccuting .his own defign. To Sir Roger, who, as a country gentleman, appears to be a Tory, or, as it is gently exprefled, an adherent to the .landed mtereft, is oppofed Sir Andrew .C z :FreeFreeport, a new man,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 254 páginas
...to exhibit, that Addifon feems to have been deterred from profeeuting .his owndefign. To SirRoger, who, as a .country gentleman, appears to be a Tory, or, as it is gently exprefied, an adherent to the landed intereft, is oppofed Sir' Andrew Freeport, a new man, a wealthy... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 páginas
...fo much nicety to exhibit, that Addifon feems to have been deterred from profecuting his own defign. To Sir Roger, who, as a country gentleman, appears to be a Tory, or, as it is gently exprelfed, an adherent to the landed intereft, is oppofed Sir Andrew Freeport, a new man, a wealthy... | |
| 1793 - 738 páginas
...much nicety to exhibit, that Addifon feems to have been deterred from profecuting his own defign. " To Sir Roger, who, as a country gentleman, appears to be a tory, or, as it is gently exprefled, an adherent to the landed intercft, is oppofed Sir Andrew Freeport, a new man, a wealthy... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1796 - 378 páginas
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| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 páginas
...Johnson, perhaps, was thinking of himself when he thus criticised the character of Sir Roger de Coverley. 'The variable weather of the mind, the flying vapours...have been deterred from prosecuting his own design.' Johnson's Works, vii.43i. ' Writing in his old age to Hector, he said, — ' My health has been from... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 640 páginas
...Johnson, perhaps, was thinking of himself when he thus criticised the character of Sir Roger de Coverley. 'The variable weather of the mind, the flying vapours...have been deterred from prosecuting his own design.' Johnson's Works, vii. 431. • Writing in his old age to Hector, he said, — ' My health has been... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 páginas
...grandeur naturally geThe variable weather of the mind, the flying vapours of incipient mad-, Dfss, which from time to time cloud reason, without eclipsing it, it requires w much nicety to exhibit, that Addison seems to have been deterred from prosecuting his own design.... | |
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