 We have not the least doubt that if Addison had written a novel, on an extensive plan, it would have been superior to any that we possess. As it is, he is 'entitled to be considered not only as the greatest of the English essayists, but as the forerunner...  The Quarterly Review - Sivu 291870Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 142 sivua
...heart, such knowledge of the ways of the world, that they charm us on the hundredth perusal. We 30 have not the least doubt that if Addison had written...extensive plan, it would have been superior to any that 9. Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771). A celebrated British novelist and historian. His best-known... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1893 - 256 sivua
...heart, such knowledge of the ways of the world, that they charm us on the hundredth perusal. We have 5 not the least doubt that if Addison had written a...as the forerunner of the great English novelists. 10 We say this of Addison alone'; for Addison is the Spectator. About three-sevenths of the work are... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1893 - 244 sivua
...heart, such knowledge of the ways of the world, that they charm us on the hundredth perusal. We have 5 not the least doubt that if Addison had" written a...as the forerunner of the great English novelists. 10 We say this of Addison alone ; for Addison is the Spectator. About three-sevenths of the work are... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1893 - 212 sivua
...ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. From Macaulay's Essay on Addison. " He is entitled to be considered, not only as the greatest...as the forerunner of the great English novelists. . . . The great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule without abusing it, who without inflicting... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 504 sivua
...the Eeulences of tht Clnirtian Religion, be. Macaulay said: "Addison is entitlod to be considered nut only as the greatest of the English essayists, but as the forerunner of the great English novelists. His best essays approach near to absolute perfection; nor is their excellence more wonderful than their... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1894 - 136 sivua
...human heart, such knowledge of the ways of the world, that they charm us on the hundredth perusal. We have not the least doubt, that, if Addison had...as the forerunner of the great English novelists. We say this of Addison alone ; for Addison is the Spectator. About three sevenths of the work are his... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1894 - 358 sivua
...human heart, such knowledge of the ways of the world, that they charm us on the hundredth perusal. We have not the least doubt that if Addison had written...as the forerunner of the great English novelists. We say this of Addison alone ; for Addison is the Spectator. About three sevenths of the work are his... | |
 | Walter Raleigh - 1894 - 346 sivua
...Taller and Spectator in an account of the rise of the *cv22f^cfcJiiodern English novel. Macaulay has not the least doubt "that if Addison had written a...would have been superior to any that we possess." It is perhaps enough to say that these leaflets composing the Tatler and Spectator are written from... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1894 - 462 sivua
...of a more delicious flavor than that ol either Swift or Voltaire." Mncaulay regards him, moreover, " not only as the greatest of the English essayists,...as the forerunner of the great English novelists." " In refined and delicate humor," Bays Prof. CD Cleveland, " Addison has no superior, if he has any... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1894 - 322 sivua
...mention of the I Tatler and Spectator in an account of the rise of the modern English novel. Macaulay has not the least doubt "that if Addison had written a novel on an extensive I plan, it would have been superior to any that we possess." It is perhaps enough to say that these... | |
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