Selections from the Writings of Joseph AddisonGinn, 1905 - 346 sider |
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... England ; and after the Restoration he had been chaplain to the garrisons first of Dunkirk and then of Tangier . He wrote several books , of which the most notable deal with Moorish affairs . He died Dean of Lichfield in 1703. Of ...
... England ; and after the Restoration he had been chaplain to the garrisons first of Dunkirk and then of Tangier . He wrote several books , of which the most notable deal with Moorish affairs . He died Dean of Lichfield in 1703. Of ...
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... England . He was immediately elected to the celebrated Kit Cat Club , 2 a select little body of clever Whigs , where men of all ranks met on equal terms . On August 2 , 1704 , Marlborough won the battle of Blenheim . The government ...
... England . He was immediately elected to the celebrated Kit Cat Club , 2 a select little body of clever Whigs , where men of all ranks met on equal terms . On August 2 , 1704 , Marlborough won the battle of Blenheim . The government ...
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... be sure you never take snuff , when you write . -Smith . Why so , Sir ? - Bays . Why , it spoil'd me once , egad , one of the sparkishest plays in all England . " against him . I have , since the beginning of INTRODUCTION XV.
... be sure you never take snuff , when you write . -Smith . Why so , Sir ? - Bays . Why , it spoil'd me once , egad , one of the sparkishest plays in all England . " against him . I have , since the beginning of INTRODUCTION XV.
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... gist of these is that until the Spectator began to sell by thousands there was hardly any literary public in England . Men who lived by their pens were accordingly obliged to depend on patronage ; and this XX INTRODUCTION THE SPECTATOR.
... gist of these is that until the Spectator began to sell by thousands there was hardly any literary public in England . Men who lived by their pens were accordingly obliged to depend on patronage ; and this XX INTRODUCTION THE SPECTATOR.
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... England . The making of Latin verses is an art which almost anybody can acquire by painful study , and which , without painful study , is at once unattainable and unintelligible . In the whole range of schol- arship , accordingly ...
... England . The making of Latin verses is an art which almost anybody can acquire by painful study , and which , without painful study , is at once unattainable and unintelligible . In the whole range of schol- arship , accordingly ...
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Side 60 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven, to inhabit among Men; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and in CoffeeHouses.
Side 153 - Cast thy eyes eastward, said he, and tell me what thou seest. I see, said I, a huge valley, and a prodigious tide of water rolling through it. The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale of misery ; and the tide of water that thou seest, is part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason...
Side 159 - A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Side 11 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Side 47 - His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
Side 319 - cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer, "why I could act as well as he myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Side 50 - He is very ready at that sort of discourse with which men usually entertain women. He has all his life dressed very well, and remembers habits as others do men. He can smile when one speaks to him, and laughs easily. He knows the history of every mode...
Side 12 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Side 47 - But being ill-used by the above-mentioned widow, he was very serious for a year and a half ; and though, his temper being naturally jovial, he at last got over it, he grew careless of himself, and never dressed afterwards. He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that were in fashion at the time of his repulse...
Side 155 - Look no more, said he, on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it.