 | 1843 - 586 lehte
...Honeycomb with whom we are all familiar. The plan of the Spectator must be allowed to be both original and eminently happy. Every valuable essay in the series...was working as a compositor. Fielding was robbing birds' nests. Smollett was not yet born. The narrative, therefore, which connects together the Spectator's... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 614 lehte
...of the Spectator must be allowd to be both original and eminently happy. Every valuable essay in ihe series may be read with pleasure separately ; yet...was working as a compositor. Fielding was robbing birds' nests. Smollet was not yet born. The narrative, therefore, which connects together the Spectator's... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 614 lehte
...Honeycomb with whom we are all familiar. The plan of the Spectator must be allowed to be both original and eminently happy. Every valuable essay in the series may be read with pleasure separately ; yet tlie five or six hundred essays form a whole, and a whole which has the interest of a novel. It must... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1844 - 446 lehte
...Honeycomb with whom we are all familiar. The plan of the Spectator must be allowed to be both original and eminently happy. Every valuable essay in the series...was working as a compositor. Fielding was robbing birds' nests. Smollett was not yet born. The narrative, therefore, which connects together the Spectator's... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 lehte
...for railing. ADDISON'S "SPECTATOR." The plan of the Spectator must be allowed to be both original and eminently happy. Every valuable essay in the series...was working as a compositor. Fielding was robbing birds' nests. Smollett was not yet born. The narrative, therefore, which connects together the Spectator's... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 332 lehte
...HoneyComb with whom we are all familiar. The plan of the Spectator must be allowed to be both original and eminently happy. Every valuable essay in the series...was working as a compositor. Fielding was robbing birds'nests. Smollett was not yet born. The narrative, therefore, which connects together the Spectator's... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 584 lehte
...his own hands, retouched them, colored them, and is in truth the creator of the Sir Roger de Coverley and the Will Honeycomb with whom we are all familiar....the common life and manners of England had appeared. Eichardson was working as a compositor. Fielding was robbing bird's nests. Smollett was not yet born.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1854 - 452 lehte
...Spectator must be allowed to be both original and eminently happy. Every valuable essay in the scries may be read with pleasure separately; yet the five...was working as a compositor. Fielding was robbing birds' nests. Smollett was not yet born. The narrative, therefore, which connects together the Spectator's... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1859 - 536 lehte
...amongst the imperfectly educated than amongst those of higher refinement. It has been said, that " no novel, giving a lively and powerful picture of...the common life and manners of England, had appeared " before the time of the " Spectator ; " that the narrative which connects together these essays, "... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 588 lehte
...Honeycomb with whom we are all familiar. The plan of the Spectator must be allowed to be both original and eminently happy. Every valuable essay in the series...was working as a compositor. Fielding was robbing birds' nests. Smollett was not yet born. The narrative, therefore, which connects together the Spectator's... | |
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The plan of the Spectator must be allowed to be both original and eminently happy. Every valuable essay in the series may be read with pleasure separately ; yet the five or six hundred essays form a whole, and a whole which has the interest of a novel.... 
