The Present State of Wit in a Letter to a Friend in the Country1711 [Birmingham, 1711 - 10 páginas |
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abound Accordingly acquaint ADDISON agreeable Amusement appear assign assistance assured beauties believe better called CANCELLED characters Coffee-houses composed confessed consequences constant continued controversy conversation convinced criticism CURTAIN DANIEL DEFOE despair diurnal Doctor EDWARD encouragement endeavours England Entertainments entirely Esquire Esquire's Examiner excellent a style expressed false fancied fellow fit to give fools fops former further Gentleman's Gentlemen greatest hands hinted Humour immediately impertinence imprudence informed ISAAC BICKERSTAFF judged Ladies laid Lastly Learning Library longer Lucubrations manner Medley mended monthly morning never noble notion observe one's opinion original pain Party perfectly piece places pleasure praise present proceed raillery reason rendered reputation Review scribblers seemed shew soon sort speak Spectator STEELE supposed surprise swarms SWEPT SWIFT Tatler tea-tables tell thought threw Tories Town true truth variety venture Virtue wanted Weekly Papers Whig winter World writing written young
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Página 509 - ... say that any of them have come up to the beauties of the original, I think we may venture to affirm, that every one of them writes and thinks much more justly than they did some time since.
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Página 509 - He has, indeed, rescued it out of the hands of pedants and fools, and discovered the true method of making it amiable and lovely to all mankind.
Página 505 - ... preface, I shall therefore endeavour to perform, and give you the histories and characters of all our periodical papers, whether monthly, weekly, or diurnal, with the same freedom I used to send you our other town news. I shall only premise, that as you know I never cared one farthing either for whig or tory...
Página 508 - It must indeed be confessed that never man threw up his pen, under stronger temptations to have employed it longer. His reputation was at a greater height, than I believe ever any living author's was before him.
Página 512 - If this piece of imprudence does not spoil so excellent a Paper, I propose to myself the highest satisfaction in reading it with you, over a dish of tea, every morning next winter.
Página 506 - DEFOE] is quite exhausted, and grown so very contemptible, that though he has provoked all his Brothers of the Quill round, none of them will enter into a controversy with him. This fellow, who had excellent natural parts, but wanted a small foundation of learning, is a lively instance of those Wits who, as an ingenious author says, "will endure but one skimming...
Página 511 - ... opposing him), and, therefore, rather chose to fall on the author, and to call out for help to all good Christians, by assuring them again and again that they were the first, original, true, and undisputed Isaac Bickerstaff. ' Meanwhile the Spectator, whom we regard as our shelter from that flood of false wit and impertinence which was breaking in upon us, is in every one's hand, and a constant topic for our morning conversation at tea-tables and coffee-houses.
Página 508 - It would have been a jest, some time since, for a man to have asserted that anything witty could be said in praise of a married state, or that Devotion and Virtue were any way necessary to the character of a Fine Gentleman.
Página 511 - Town, when we were Surpriz'd all at once by a Paper called The SPECTATOR, which was promised to be continued every day, and was writ in so excellent a Stile, with so nice a Judgment, and such a noble profusion of Wit and Humour, that it was not difficult to determine it could come from no other hands but those which...