 | 1843 - 612 pages
...have been excited by fame so splendid, and by so rapid an elevation. No man is- so great a favorite with the public, as he who is at once an object of...superior even to his writings. The brilliant Mary Montagu said, that she had known all the wits, and that Addison was the best company in the world.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1843 - 614 pages
...have been excited by fame so splendid, and by so rapid an elevation. No man is so great a favorite with the public, as he who is at once an object of admiration, of respect, and ol pity ; and such were the feelings which Addison inspired. Those who enjoyed the privilege of hearing... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - American periodicals - 1843 - 614 pages
...have been excited by fame so splendid, and by so rapid an elevation. No man is so great a favorite with the public, as he who is at once an object of admiration, of respect, arid of pity ; and such were the feelings which Addison inspired. Those who enjoyed the privilege of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1844 - 446 pages
...have been excited by fame so splendid, and by so rapid an elevation. No man is so great a favourite with the public, as he who is at once an object of...superior even to his writings. The brilliant Mary Montagu said, that she had known all the wits, and that Addison was the best company in the world.... | |
 | 1845 - 440 pages
...Addison failed as a debater in Parliament, those who enjoyed the privilege of hearing his f»Tni1i» conversation declared with one voice that it was superior even to his writings. This, however, was never displayd to crowds or strangers. As soon as he entered a largt company his... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...have been excited by fame so splendid, and by so rapid an elevation. No man is so great a favorite with the public, as he who is at once an object of...respect, and of pity; and such were the feelings which Addisoa inspired. Those who enjoyed the privilege of hearing his familiar conversation, declared with... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1850 - 332 pages
...have been excited by fame so splendid, and by so rapid an elevation. No man is so great a favourite with the public as he who is at once an object of...respect, and of pity; and such were the feelings which Adtlison inspired. Those who enjoyed the privilege of hearing his familiar conversation, declared with... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1853 - 600 pages
...have been excited by fame so splendid, and by so rapid an elevation. No man is so great a favorite with the public, as he who is at once an object of...superior even to his writings. The brilliant Mary Montagu said that she had known all the wits, and that Addison was the best company in the world. The... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1853 - 600 pages
...have been excited by fame so splendid, and by so rapid on elevation. No man is so great a favorite with the public, as he who is at once an object of...superior even to his writings. The brilliant Mary Montagu said that she had known all the wits, and that Addison was the best company in the world. The... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 584 pages
...have been excited by fame so splendid, and by so rapid an elevation. No man is so great a favorite with the public, as he who is at once an object of...superior even to his writings. The brilliant Mary Montagu said that she had known all the wits, and that Addison was the best company in the world. The... | |
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No man is so great a favorite with the public as he who is at once an object of admiration, of respect, and of pity; and such were the feelings which Addison inspired. Those who enjoyed the privilege of hearing his familiar conversation, declared with... 
