Spectators were equalled in their own kind, we should be inclined to guess that it must have been by the lost comedies of Menander. In wit, properly so called, Addison was not inferior to Cowley or Butler. No single ode of Cowley contains so many happy... Macaulay's Essay on Addison - الصفحة 47بواسطة Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - عدد الصفحات: 130عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 586
...have been by the lost comedies of Menander. In wit, properly so called, Addison was not inferior to Cowley or Butler. No single ode of Cowley contains...grotesque, but always singularly graceful and happy, which are found in his essays, fully entitle him to the rank of a great poet — a rank to which his metrical... | |
| John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 614
...have been by the lost comedies of Mennnder. In wit, properly so called, Addison was not inferior to Cowley or Butler. No single ode of Cowley contains...still larger measure. The numerous fictions, generally orginal, often wild and grotesque, but always singularly graceful and happy, which are found in his... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 614
...have been by the lost comedies of Menander. In wit, properly so called, Addison was not inferior to Cowley or Butler. No single ode of Cowley contains...ingenious illustrations as can be found in 'Hudibras.' Thestill higher faculty of invention Addison possessed in still larger measure. The numerous fictions,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 446
...properly so called, Addison was not inferior to VOL. v.—10 138 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS. Cowley or Butler. No single ode of Cowley contains...grotesque, but always singularly graceful and happy, which are found in his essays, fully entitle him to the rank of a great poet—a rank to which his metrical... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 600
...Kneller, is often happy, but is too well known to be quoted." "No single ode of Cowley," says Macaulay, "contains so many happy analogies as are crowded into the lines to Sir Godfrey Kneller." Dugald Stewart also, who has interspersed his philosphical writings with exquisite specimens of literary... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 584
...Kneller, is often happy, but is too well known to be quoted." " No single ode of Cowley," says Macaulay, " contains so many happy analogies as are crowded into the lines to Sir Godfrey Kneller." Dugald Stewart also, who has interspersed his philosphical writings with exquisite specimens of literary... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 600
...Kneller, is often happy, but is too well known to be quoted." " No single ode of Cowley," says Macaulay, " contains so many happy analogies as are crowded into the lines to Sir Godfrey Kneller." Dugald Stewart also, who has interspersed his philosphical writings with exquisite specimens of literary... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 1030
...have been by the lost comedies of Menander. In wit. properly so culled. Addison was not inferior to Cowley or Butler. No single ode of Cowley contains...many happy analogies as are crowded into the lines to Kir Godfrey Kneller; and we would undertake to collect from the Spectators as great a number of Ingenious... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 1028
...single ode of Cowfcy contains so many happy analogie» as are crowded into the Ihies to Sir (iodfroy gK ͛G &VO8 I j 5 & " Oݦ 7 asean be found in 'Hudibras.' The still higher faculty of invention Addison possessed in still larger... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 588
...have been by the lost comedies of Menander. In wit, properly so called, Addison was not inferior to Cowley or Butler. No single ode of Cowley contains...grotesque, but always singularly graceful and happy, which are found in his essays, fully entitle him to the rank of a great poet, a rank to which his metrical... | |
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