Select Esays of Addison: Together with Macaulay's Essay on Addison's Life and WritingsAllyn and Bacon, 1894 - 320 sider |
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... honor to the persons on whom they are bestowed . The whole club pays a particular deference to the dis- course of this gentleman , and are drawn into what he says as much by the candid ingenuous manner with which he delivers himself ...
... honor to the persons on whom they are bestowed . The whole club pays a particular deference to the dis- course of this gentleman , and are drawn into what he says as much by the candid ingenuous manner with which he delivers himself ...
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... honor to be a reader of this paper , never to think himself , or any one of his friends or enemies , aimed at in what is said : for I promise him , never to draw a faulty character which does not fit at least a thousand people : or to ...
... honor to be a reader of this paper , never to think himself , or any one of his friends or enemies , aimed at in what is said : for I promise him , never to draw a faulty character which does not fit at least a thousand people : or to ...
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... honor , and the greatest beauty of her time ; here she stands , the next picture . You see , sir , my great - great - great - grandmother has on the new - fashioned petticoat , except that the modern is gathered at the waist : my ...
... honor , and the greatest beauty of her time ; here she stands , the next picture . You see , sir , my great - great - great - grandmother has on the new - fashioned petticoat , except that the modern is gathered at the waist : my ...
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... honor of our house , Sir Humphrey de Coverley ; he was in his dealings as punctual as a trades- man , and as generous as a gentleman . He would have thought himself as much undone by breaking his word , as if it were to be followed by ...
... honor of our house , Sir Humphrey de Coverley ; he was in his dealings as punctual as a trades- man , and as generous as a gentleman . He would have thought himself as much undone by breaking his word , as if it were to be followed by ...
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... honor , as they both are followed by pretenders , and the real votaries to them . When she dis- cussed these points in a discourse , which I verily believe was as learned as the best philosopher in Europe could possibly make , she asked ...
... honor , as they both are followed by pretenders , and the real votaries to them . When she dis- cussed these points in a discourse , which I verily believe was as learned as the best philosopher in Europe could possibly make , she asked ...
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Addison admirers Æneid afterwards Ambrose Philips appeared beautiful called church consider conversation Coverley critics dæmon death delight discourse endeavor England English entertained essays friend Sir Roger genius gentleman Georgic give hand head hear heard heart Hilpa History honor house of Bourbon humor Iliad Isaac Bickerstaff kind king Knight lady Lancelot Addison learning letter lion literary live look Lord mankind manner master means mind morning nature never observed occasion paper particular party passed person pleased pleasure poet political Pope reader reason reign ridicule Roger de Coverley says Shalum side Sir Andrew Sir Richard Baker Sir Roger soul Spanish monarchy Spectator Steele Tatler tell thing thou thought Tickell tion Tirzah told took Tories town verses virtue Voltaire walk Whig Whig party whole words writers young
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Side 319 - Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Side 88 - Wisdom crieth without ; she uttereth her voice in the streets : she crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates : in the city she uttereth her words, saying, How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity ? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Side 224 - 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 224 - HOW are thy servants blest, O Lord, How sure is their defence ! Eternal wisdom is their guide, Their help, omnipotence.
Side 319 - 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 221 - Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye : My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Side 32 - ... the country for that purpose, to instruct them rightly in the tunes of the Psalms; upon which they now very much value themselves, and indeed outdo most of the country churches that I have ever heard. As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself...
Side 78 - Knowing that you was my old master's good friend, I could not forbear sending you the melancholy news of his death, which has afflicted the whole country, as well as his poor servants, who loved him, I may say, better than we did our lives. I am afraid he caught his death the last county-sessions, where he would go to see justice done to a poor widow woman, and her fatherless children, that had been wronged by a neighbouring gentleman ; for you know, sir, my good master was always the poor man's...
Side 200 - 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 222 - When in the slippery paths of youth, With heedless steps, I ran ; Thine arm, unseen, conveyed me safe, And led me up to man.