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 - Page 271870Full view - About this book
| Joseph Addison - 278 pages
...chosen to be bitter and particular, neither Swift nor Pope would have been so formidable an assailant. " We have not the least doubt that if Addison had written...would have been superior to any that we possess." This is one of Macaulay's most typical flights into the thin air of generalisation. There is no reason... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1961 - 278 pages
...chosen to be bitter and particular, neither Swift nor Pope would have been so formidable an assailant " We have not the least doubt that if Addison had written...would have been superior to any that we possess." This is one of Macaulay's most typical flights into the thin air of generalisation. There is no reason... | |
| 1899 - 778 pages
...rewards the servant by taking him by the hand when he departs."— OVEHBURY. 3Macaulay said he had not the least doubt "that if Addison had written a...would have been superior to any that we possess." Jones. All three are individualized types, though of course they differ in the degree of individualization.... | |
| Drama - 1912 - 486 pages
...de Coverley papers, according to Taine, the novel was unconsciously discovered; and Macaulay avers that 'if Addison had written a novel on an extensive...would have been superior to any that we possess.' Whether Macaulay was correct, no one can say, though we should think not; but Taine was much more nearly... | |
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