正文 THE GENTEEL STYLE IN WRITING

IT is an ordinary criticism, that my Lord Shaftesbury, and Sir William Temple, are models of the geyle in writing. We should prefer saying -- of the lordly, and the gentlemanly. Nothing be more uhan the inflated finical rhapsodies of Shaftesbury, and the plain natural chit-chat of Temple. The man of rank is disible in both writers; but in the o is only insinuated gracefully, iher it stands out offensively. The peer seems to have written with his et on, and his Earls mantle before him; the oner in his elbow chair and undress. -- What be more pleasant than the way in which the retired statesman peeps out in the essays, penned by the latter in his delightful retreat at Shehey st of Nimeguen, and the Hague. Scar authority is quoted under an ambassador. Don Francisco de Melo, a "Pal Envoy in England," tells him it was frequent in his try for men, spent with age or other decays, so as they could not hope for above a year or two of life, to ship themselves a……(内容加载失败!)

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