Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization: As Preserved and Presented by the World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volum 1Ferd. P. Kaiser, 1902 |
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... genius of man has been only to trace a part , and a very small part , of that order which the Deity has established in his works . When we en- deavor to pry into the causes of this order , we perceive the operation of powers which lie ...
... genius of man has been only to trace a part , and a very small part , of that order which the Deity has established in his works . When we en- deavor to pry into the causes of this order , we perceive the operation of powers which lie ...
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... genius can receive , and the mode through which it operates to express that fellow - feeling for humanity which is its own essence . • Everywhere in Addison's essays we see this good nature operating as the source of their inspiration ...
... genius can receive , and the mode through which it operates to express that fellow - feeling for humanity which is its own essence . • Everywhere in Addison's essays we see this good nature operating as the source of their inspiration ...
Side 30
... genius that is not broken and cultivated by the rules of art . Imitation is natural to us , and when it does not raise the mind to poetry , painting , music , or other more noble arts , it often breaks out in puns and quibbles ...
... genius that is not broken and cultivated by the rules of art . Imitation is natural to us , and when it does not raise the mind to poetry , painting , music , or other more noble arts , it often breaks out in puns and quibbles ...
Side 31
... criticism ; and for that reason , though they excel later writers in greatness of genius , they fall short of them in accuracy and correctness . The moderns cannot reach their beauties , but can avoid their JOSEPH ADDISON 31.
... criticism ; and for that reason , though they excel later writers in greatness of genius , they fall short of them in accuracy and correctness . The moderns cannot reach their beauties , but can avoid their JOSEPH ADDISON 31.
Side 35
... genius much above it . Spen- ser is in the same class with Milton . The Italians , even in their epic poetry , are full of it . Monsieur Boileau , who formed himself upon the ancient poets , has everywhere rejected it with scorn . If we ...
... genius much above it . Spen- ser is in the same class with Milton . The Italians , even in their epic poetry , are full of it . Monsieur Boileau , who formed himself upon the ancient poets , has everywhere rejected it with scorn . If we ...
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Side 231 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Side 31 - For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another, VOL, VII.
Side 232 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Side xvii - We have but faith : we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see ; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow.
Side 51 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Side 307 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Side 54 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them ; every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Are not these...
Side 97 - As we stood before Busby's tomb, the Knight uttered himself again after the same manner, — "Dr. Busby — a great man ! he whipped my grandfather — a very great man...
Side 41 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet...
Side 334 - Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend: " Abeunt studia in mores" Nay, there is no stond nor impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by fit studies...