 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
 | History, Ancient - 1917 - 1008 pages
...\vith the little Gothic ornaments of epigrammatical conreits, lurns, points, and quibbles. which åre so frequent in the most admired of our English poets, and practised hy those who w an t genius and slrength to represent, ufler the manne r of the aneients, simplicily... | |
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