The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Letters, continued. 2d appendix, containing miscellanies and gleanings. Translations of Addison's Latin poems. Addison's Latin prose. Official documents. Addisoniana. GeneralH. G. Bohn, 1856 |
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... Steele's first Meeting with Swift Early Memorial of Swift and Addison's Friendship Origin of the Pseudonyme " Bickerstaff " The first Tatler The Tatler in the ... Sir Richard Steele's full - bottomed Wig X CONTENTS OF THE SIXTH VOLUME .
... Steele's first Meeting with Swift Early Memorial of Swift and Addison's Friendship Origin of the Pseudonyme " Bickerstaff " The first Tatler The Tatler in the ... Sir Richard Steele's full - bottomed Wig X CONTENTS OF THE SIXTH VOLUME .
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Joseph Addison Henry George Bohn. PAGE ADDISONIANA . Sir Richard Steele's full - bottomed Wig Steele . Rump Wit Steele's Duel . The twenty - fifth Tatler Steele's first Dramatic Production Steele's Comedy of the “ Tender Husband ” Anecdote ...
Joseph Addison Henry George Bohn. PAGE ADDISONIANA . Sir Richard Steele's full - bottomed Wig Steele . Rump Wit Steele's Duel . The twenty - fifth Tatler Steele's first Dramatic Production Steele's Comedy of the “ Tender Husband ” Anecdote ...
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... Sir Richard Steele , who gave a splendid entertainment on that occasion . THE sage whose guests you are to - night is known To watch the public weal , though not his own : Still have his thoughts uncommon schemes pursued , And teemed ...
... Sir Richard Steele , who gave a splendid entertainment on that occasion . THE sage whose guests you are to - night is known To watch the public weal , though not his own : Still have his thoughts uncommon schemes pursued , And teemed ...
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... Steel , Garth , Maynwaring , Stepney , and Walsh . The club is supposed to have derived its name from Christopher Cat ... SIR Richard Steele , at one part of his life , resided occasion- ally at a small house on Haverstock Hill , in the ...
... Steel , Garth , Maynwaring , Stepney , and Walsh . The club is supposed to have derived its name from Christopher Cat ... SIR Richard Steele , at one part of his life , resided occasion- ally at a small house on Haverstock Hill , in the ...
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... Sir Richard Steele , brought me , upon my banishment from Cambridge , to have many astronomical lectures at Burton's Coffee - house , near Covent Garden , to the agreeable enter- tainment of a good number of curious persons , and the ...
... Sir Richard Steele , brought me , upon my banishment from Cambridge , to have many astronomical lectures at Burton's Coffee - house , near Covent Garden , to the agreeable enter- tainment of a good number of curious persons , and the ...
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