 | Kate Sanborn - 1869 - 306 pages
...enjoyed it in such perfection, that I have often reflected, after a night spent with him apart from all the world, that I had had the pleasure of conversing...who had all their wit and nature, heightened with humor more exquisite and delightful than any other man ever possessed." He afterward speaks of that... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 586 pages
...II. ' I have often reflected,' says Steele, ' after a night spent with him (Addison), apart from all the world, that I had had the pleasure of conversing...and delightful than any other man ever possessed.' 1 And Pope, a rival of Addison, and a bitter rival, adds: ' His conversation had something in it more... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 568 pages
...II. ' I have often reflected,' says Steele, ' after a night spent with him (Addison), apart from all the world, that I had had the pleasure of conversing...more exquisite and delightful than any other man ever possessed.'1 And Pope, a rival of Addison, and a bitter rival, adds : ' His conversation had something... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 pages
...II. ' I have often reflected,' says Steele, ' after a night spent with him (Addison), apart from all the world, that I had had the pleasure of conversing...more exquisite and delightful than any other man ever possessed.'1 And Pope, a rival of Addison, and a bitter rival, adds : ' His conversation had something... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1871 - 550 pages
...reflected, after a night spent with him, that I had had the pleasure of conversing with an intimate of Terence and Catullus, who had all their wit and...and delightful than any other man ever possessed. — Sir R. Steele. when the political attitude of the Roman Catholics in those times is recalled ;... | |
 | Public school series - 1874 - 408 pages
...enjoyed it in such perfection, that I have often reflected, after a night spent with him apart from all the world, that I had had the pleasure of conversing...and delightful than any other man ever possessed." This is the fondness of a friend ; let us hear what is told us by a rival. " Addison's conversation,"... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...perfection that I have often reflected, after a night spent with him apart from all the world, that I eve I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with Catallus, who had all their wit and nature heightened with humour more exquisite and delightful than... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1883 - 688 pages
...recommended to the Stage, and carried to the Press. No one who reads the Preface which I published with it, will imagine I could be induced to say so much, as...ever possessed. They who shall read this Play, after Leing let into the secret that it was written by Mr. ADDISON or under his direction, will probably... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1880 - 596 pages
...and enjoyed it in such perfection, that I have reflected, after a night spent with him apart from all the world, that I had had the pleasure of conversing...play after being let into the secret, that it was writ by Mr. Addison, or under his direction, will probably be attentive to those excellencies, which... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1883 - 596 pages
...acquaintance of Terence and Catullus, who hud all thcir wit and nature hcightened with humour, more uxquisitu and delightful than any other man ever possessed....play after being let into the secret, that it was writ by Mr. Addison, or under his direction, will probably be attentive to those excellencies, which... | |
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The time in which he lived had reason to lament his obstinacy of silence, 'for he was,' says Steele, 'above all men in that talent called humour, and enjoyed it in such perfection that I have often reflected, after a night spent with him apart from all... 
