Select Essays of Addison: Together with Macaulay's Essay on Addison's Life and WritingsAllyn and Bacon, 1892 - 320 sider |
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Side xiii
... five of the more famous papers . The only distinct class of essays of which I have admitted no representative is that of formal criticism . Writing of this kind is but little apt to prove stimulating Introduction . xiii.
... five of the more famous papers . The only distinct class of essays of which I have admitted no representative is that of formal criticism . Writing of this kind is but little apt to prove stimulating Introduction . xiii.
Side xiv
... kind is but little apt to prove stimulating to youth . An ideal selection from Addison's prose writings would of course be a perfect miniature , omitting no feature of the original . Some features of the original should , however , be ...
... kind is but little apt to prove stimulating to youth . An ideal selection from Addison's prose writings would of course be a perfect miniature , omitting no feature of the original . Some features of the original should , however , be ...
Side 9
... kind glance or a blow of a fan from some celebrated beauty , mother of the present Lord such - a - one . I cannot tell whether I am to account him whom I am next to speak of , as one of our company ; for he visits us but seldom , but ...
... kind glance or a blow of a fan from some celebrated beauty , mother of the present Lord such - a - one . I cannot tell whether I am to account him whom I am next to speak of , as one of our company ; for he visits us but seldom , but ...
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... kind of pedants among learned men , are such as are naturally endowed with a very small share of common sense , and have read a great number of books without taste or distinction . The truth of it is , learning , like travelling , and ...
... kind of pedants among learned men , are such as are naturally endowed with a very small share of common sense , and have read a great number of books without taste or distinction . The truth of it is , learning , like travelling , and ...
Side 18
... kind questions relating to themselves . This humanity and good nature engages everybody to him , so that when he is pleas- ant upon any of them , all his family are in good humor , and none so much as the person whom he diverts himself ...
... kind questions relating to themselves . This humanity and good nature engages everybody to him , so that when he is pleas- ant upon any of them , all his family are in good humor , and none so much as the person whom he diverts himself ...
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Select Essays of Addison: Together with Macaulay's Essay on Addison's Life ... Joseph Addison Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1893 |
Select Essays of Addison: Together with Macaulay's Essay on Addison's Life ... Joseph Addison Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1892 |
Select Essays of Addison: Together with Macaulay's Essay on Addison's Life ... Joseph Addison Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1893 |
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Side 317 - Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Side 317 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise ; Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Side 222 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The Moon takes up the wondrous tale; And nightly, to the listening Earth, Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets, in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Side 2 - Whether this might proceed from a law-suit which was then depending in the family, or my father's being a justice of the peace, I cannot determine; for I am not so vain as to think it presaged any dignity that I should arrive at in my future life, though that was the interpretation which the neighborhood put upon it.
Side 159 - I observed some with scimitars in their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trapdoors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped had they not been thus forced upon them. The genius seeing me indulge myself in this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it. " Take thine eyes off the bridge," said he, " and tell me if thou seest anything thou dost not comprehend." Upon looking up, "What mean...
Side 198 - IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy, would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.
Side 220 - When in the slippery paths of youth, With heedless steps, I ran ; Thine arm, unseen, conveyed me safe, And led me up to man.
Side xix - What he attempted, he performed : he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ;* he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude nor affected brevity; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentations, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Side 17 - HAVING often received an invitation from my friend Sir Roger de Coverley, to pass away a month with him in the country, I last week accompanied him thither, and am settled with him for some time at his countryhouse, where I intend to form several of my ensuing speculations. Sir Roger, who is very well acquainted with my humour, lets me rise and go to bed when I please, dine at his own table or in my chamber as I think fit, sit still and say nothing without bidding me be merry. When the gentlemen...
Side 31 - I AM always very well pleased with a country Sunday ; and think, if keeping holy the seventh day were only a human institution, it would be the best method that could have been thought of for the polishing and civilizing of mankind.