 | English essays - 1829 - 804 pages
...but at the same time must confess, my life is at best but pardon ible. And, with no greater character than this, a man would make but an indifferent progress...efficacy, had it been pretended to by Mr. Steele. As to the work itself, the acceptance it has met with is the best proof of its valne; but I should... | |
 | 1831 - 704 pages
...but at the same time must confess, my life is at best bat pardonable. And, with no greater character than this, a man would make but an indifferent progress...attacking prevailing and fashionable vices, which Mr. Bickcrstaff has done with a freedom of spirit, that would have lost both its beauty and efficacy, had... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1838 - 728 pages
...but at the same time must confess my life is at best but pardonable. And with no greater character than this, a man would make but an indifferent progress...efficacy, had it been pretended to by Mr. Steele." — Taller, No. 271. It may still be supposed, that he assumed his serious mood, like his different... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1855 - 434 pages
...my life is at best but pardonable. And with no greater character than this, a man would make but aa indifferent progress in attacking prevailing and fashionable vices, which Mr. Bickerstaff has done with a free- • dom of spirit, that would have lost both its beauty and efficacy, had it been pretended to... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1856 - 442 pages
...make but an indifferent progress in attacking prevailing and fashionable vices, which Mr. Bickerstatf has done with a freedom of spirit, that would have...efficacy, had it been pretended to by Mr. Steele.' peculiar to the English. The first considerable work, for which this expedient was employed, is said... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1861 - 368 pages
...and fafhionable vices, which Mr. Bickerftaffhas done with a freedom of fpirit that would have loft both its beauty and efficacy, had it been pretended to by Mr. Steele. As to the work itfelf, the acceptance it has met with is the beft proof of its value ; but I fhould... | |
 | Henry Riddell Montgomery - Authors, English - 1865 - 476 pages
...confess, my life is at best but pardonable. And, with a greater character than this, a man would make but indifferent progress in attacking prevailing and fashionable...and efficacy had it been pretended to by Mr Steele." In the short period of their existence these papers had taken a wide range over the whole field of... | |
 | Henry Riddell Montgomery - Authors, English - 1865 - 476 pages
...confess, my life is at best but pardonable. And, with a greater character than this, a man would make but indifferent progress in attacking prevailing and fashionable...and efficacy had it been pretended to by Mr Steele." In the short period of their existence these papers had taken a wide range over the whole field of... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1884 - 202 pages
...man, but at the same time must confess my life is at best but pardonable. With no greater character than this, a man would make but an indifferent progress...efficacy had it been pretended to by Mr. Steele." ' As Steele cannot claim the sole merit of having invented the form of the Tatler, so, too, it must... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English wit and humor - 1885 - 572 pages
...but at the same time, must confess, my life is at best but pardonable. And with no greater character than this, a man would make but an indifferent progress...and efficacy, had it been pretended to by Mr. Steele (Taller 2 71). In der That war Steele weit da von entfernl, ein lasterhafter Mensch zu sein: His easy,... | |
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I shall not carry my humility so far as to call myself a vicious man, but at the same time must confess my life is at best but pardonable. And, with no greater character than this, a man would make but an indifferent progress in attacking prevailing and... 
