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Strona xv
... play The Rehearsal . Addison's memory , however , is at fault . See The Rehearsal , ii , I : 66 Bays . But I must ... plays in all England . " against him . I have , since the beginning of INTRODUCTION XV.
... play The Rehearsal . Addison's memory , however , is at fault . See The Rehearsal , ii , I : 66 Bays . But I must ... plays in all England . " against him . I have , since the beginning of INTRODUCTION XV.
Strona xvii
... played Lucia , that the author “ wan- dered through the whole exhibition behind the scenes with restless and unappeasable solicitude . ” 2 Chap . vii . See also Blackstone's note under " Addison " in Bio- graphia Britannica ; Disraeli ...
... played Lucia , that the author “ wan- dered through the whole exhibition behind the scenes with restless and unappeasable solicitude . ” 2 Chap . vii . See also Blackstone's note under " Addison " in Bio- graphia Britannica ; Disraeli ...
Strona xxiii
... play the most difficult literary game which centuries of ingenious scholarship have invented . Success in this game is said still to attract in England admiring attention , somewhat akin to that attracted by athletic prowess . In ...
... play the most difficult literary game which centuries of ingenious scholarship have invented . Success in this game is said still to attract in England admiring attention , somewhat akin to that attracted by athletic prowess . In ...
Strona xliii
... play , begun during Addison's Italian travels , was neither completed nor produced until 1713. Dr. Johnson's criticism admirably defines the admiration it still commanded after the lapse of seventy years : Of a work so much read , it is ...
... play , begun during Addison's Italian travels , was neither completed nor produced until 1713. Dr. Johnson's criticism admirably defines the admiration it still commanded after the lapse of seventy years : Of a work so much read , it is ...
Strona xliv
... play which the reader does not wish to impress upon his memory.1 At the present moment , more than a century after Johnson wrote , it is hard to imagine any surviving reader who should share this wish . Historically , however , Cato ...
... play which the reader does not wish to impress upon his memory.1 At the present moment , more than a century after Johnson wrote , it is hard to imagine any surviving reader who should share this wish . Historically , however , Cato ...
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