Selections from the Writings of Joseph AddisonGinn, 1905 - 346 páginas |
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... hand , tends to confirm it . In 1743 Fielding , who when Addison died was twelve years old , pub- lished a fragmentary book called A Journey from This World to the Next . On his arrival in Elysium1 he has hasty inter- views with ...
... hand , tends to confirm it . In 1743 Fielding , who when Addison died was twelve years old , pub- lished a fragmentary book called A Journey from This World to the Next . On his arrival in Elysium1 he has hasty inter- views with ...
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... served their apprenticeship in verse . A true poet never stops versify- ing . Whoever , on the other hand , at once lacks the divine spark and possesses strong good sense ultimately confines himself to INTRODUCTION xxi.
... served their apprenticeship in verse . A true poet never stops versify- ing . Whoever , on the other hand , at once lacks the divine spark and possesses strong good sense ultimately confines himself to INTRODUCTION xxi.
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... hand , is painfully unattractive to the sluggish temperament of our native stock . Throughout history , accordingly , men of English blood have generally preferred to be respectable . What foreigners call our hypocrisy is really a ...
... hand , is painfully unattractive to the sluggish temperament of our native stock . Throughout history , accordingly , men of English blood have generally preferred to be respectable . What foreigners call our hypocrisy is really a ...
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... hand , he was free to say and to do whatever he felt to be in accordance with his assumed character . No small part of the charm of Addison's Spectator , in short , may be traced to the happy accident of this underlying bit of private ...
... hand , he was free to say and to do whatever he felt to be in accordance with his assumed character . No small part of the charm of Addison's Spectator , in short , may be traced to the happy accident of this underlying bit of private ...
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... hand in more than half of the papers which followed . Very clearly , however , the character of the Spectator was generally maintained through- out the series with a consistency which has been less remarked than it deserves . One still ...
... hand in more than half of the papers which followed . Very clearly , however , the character of the Spectator was generally maintained through- out the series with a consistency which has been less remarked than it deserves . One still ...
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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 159 - A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.