 Softly has got all the bad ones without book ; which he repeats upon occasion, to show his reading, and garnish his conversation. Ned is indeed a true English reader, incapable of relishing the great and masterly strokes of this art ; but wonderfully...  The Tatler - Page 260by Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1804 - 400 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Atterbury - 1869 - 476 pages
...masterly strokes of this art, but wonderfully pleased with the little Gothic ornaments of epigrammatic conceits, turns, points, and quibbles, which are so...simplicity in its natural beauty and perfection." Toiler, No. 163. t This Preface, published in 1690, is thus noticed by Fenton, in his 4to edition of... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...incapable of relishing the great and masterly strokes of this art ; but wonderfully pleased with the little Gothic ornaments of -epigrammatical conceits,...our English poets, and practised by those who want genins and strength to represent, after the manner of the ancients, simplicity in its natural beauty... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1881 - 842 pages
...ornaments of epigrammaticul conceits, turns, points, and quibbles, which are so frequent in the must admired of our English poets, and practised by those who want genius imd strength to represent, »fter the manner of the auei -nt -. simplicity in its natural beauty aim... | |
 | Austin Dobson - English essays - 1882 - 322 pages
...incapable of relishing the great and masterly strokes of this art ; but wonderfully pleased with the little Gothic ornaments of epigrammatical conceits,...simplicity in its natural beauty and perfection. Finding Finding myself unavoidably engaged in such a conversation, I was resolved to turn my pain into a pleasure,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 358 pages
...incapable of relishing the great and masterly strokes of this art ; but wonderfully pleased with the little Gothic ornaments of epigrammatical conceits,...simplicity in its natural beauty and perfection. Finding my self unavoidably engaged in such a conversation, I was resolved to turn my pain into a pleasure,... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1893 - 546 pages
...incapable of relishing the great and masterly strokes of this art ; but wonderfully pleased with the little Gothic ornaments of epigrammatical conceits,...frequent in the most admired of our English poets, nnd practised by those who want genius and strength to represent, after the manner of the ancients,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1894 - 358 pages
...incapable of relishing the great and masterly strokes of this art ; but wonderfully pleased with the little Gothic ornaments of epigrammatical conceits,...simplicity in its natural beauty and perfection. Finding my self unavoidably engaged in such a conversation, I was resolved to turn my pain into a pleasure,... | |
 | J. H. Lobban - English essays - 1896 - 324 pages
...incapable of relishing the great and masterly strokes of this art; but wonderfully pleased with the little Gothic ornaments of epigrammatical conceits,...ancients, simplicity in its natural beauty and perfection. Upon which he began to read as follows: TO MIRA, ON HER INCOMPARABLE POEMS. L When drcss'd in laurel... | |
 | Jeremiah Wesley Bray - Criticism - 1898 - 360 pages
...after Chaucer. RYMER, 2d Ft., p. 78. The little Gothic ornaments of epigrammatical conceits, tunA, points, and quibbles, which are so frequent in the...ancients, simplicity in its natural beauty and perfection. 1710. ADDISON, II., p. 146. As the eye, in surveying a Gothic building, is distracted by the multiplicity... | |
 | Jeremiah Wesley Bray - Criticism - 1898 - 364 pages
...the stiff and Gothic did stick upon our language till long after Chaucer. RYMER, 2d Ft., p. 78. The little Gothic ornaments of epigrammatical conceits,...our English poets, and practised by those who want genins and strength to represent, after the manner of the ancients, simplicity in its natural beauty... | |
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