The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century1949 |
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Page 72
... Tatler " first began his prattle , Addison , then in Ireland , caught at his friend's notion , poured in paper after paper , and contributed the stores of his mind , the sweet fruits of his reading , the delightful gleanings of his ...
... Tatler " first began his prattle , Addison , then in Ireland , caught at his friend's notion , poured in paper after paper , and contributed the stores of his mind , the sweet fruits of his reading , the delightful gleanings of his ...
Page 78
... Tatler and Spectator the past age returns , the England of our ancestors is revivified . The Maypole rises in the Strand again in London ; the churches are thronged with daily worshippers ; the beaux are gather- ing in the coffee ...
... Tatler and Spectator the past age returns , the England of our ancestors is revivified . The Maypole rises in the Strand again in London ; the churches are thronged with daily worshippers ; the beaux are gather- ing in the coffee ...
Page 83
... Tatler began , our great- great - grandfathers must have seized upon that new and delightful paper with much such eagerness as lovers of light literature in a later day exhibited when the Waverley novels appeared , upon which the public ...
... Tatler began , our great- great - grandfathers must have seized upon that new and delightful paper with much such eagerness as lovers of light literature in a later day exhibited when the Waverley novels appeared , upon which the public ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION page | 7 |
JONATHAN SWIFT | 13 |
RICHARD STEELE | 77 |
Copyright | |
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