The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Historical and Biographical, Volumen5Little, Brown, 1855 |
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The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Historical and Biographical;, Volumen31 Alexander Chalmers Sin vista previa disponible - 2019 |
The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Historical and Biographical;, Volumen31 Alexander Chalmers Sin vista previa disponible - 2019 |
Términos y frases comunes
acquaint acrostics Addison admiration agreeable anagrams appear APRIL 13 Aristotle audience beauty behaviour Bouts-Rimés Budgell called character club coffee-house consider discourse dress edition endeavour English entertainment Ephesian Matron Eustace Budgell eyes favour genius gentleman George Etheridge give hand heart hero honour Hudibras humble servant humour Italian kind King lady laugh learned letter lion live look Lord lover mankind manner MARCH 13 means ment merit mind nature never observed occasion opera OVID paper particular passion person Pict play pleased poem poet present racters reader reason rhymes ridicule Roger de Coverley ROSCOMMON says scenes sense Sir Roger speak Spectator stage Steele style talk taste Tatler tell thing Thomas Parnell thought tion told tragedy verse VIRG virtue whig whole woman women word writers young
Pasajes populares
Página 29 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Página 101 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Página 106 - ... a gentleman of Worcestershire, of ancient descent, a baronet; his name Sir Roger de Coverley. His great-grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance which is called after him. All who know that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger. He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world only as he thinks the world is in the wrong.
Página 28 - It is not uncommon for those who have grown wise by the labour of others to add a little of their own, and overlook their masters. Addison is now despised by some who perhaps would never have seen his defects but by the lights which he afforded them.
Página 309 - Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Página 112 - ... age will take notice to you what such a minister said upon such and such an occasion, he will tell you, when the Duke of Monmouth danced at court, such a woman was then smitten, another was taken with him at the head of his troop in the Park. In all these important relations, he has ever...
Página 106 - However, this humour creates him no enemies, for he does nothing with sourness or obstinacy, and his being unconfined to modes and forms makes him but the readier and more capable to please and oblige all who know him.
Página 108 - ... our own Courts. No one ever took him for a Fool, but none, except his intimate Friends, know he has a great deal of Wit. This Turn makes him at once both disinterested and agreeable : As few of his Thoughts are drawn from Business, they are most of them fit for Conversation. His Taste...
Página 102 - I had not been long at the University, before I distinguished myself by a most profound silence; for, during the space of eight years, excepting in the public exercises of the college, I scarce uttered the quantity of an hundred words; and indeed do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole life.
Página 287 - His thoughts are wonderfully suited to tragedy, but frequently lost in such a cloud of words, that it is hard to see the beauty of them ; there is an infinite fire in his works, but so involved in smoke, that it does not appear in half its lustre.