The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volumen4T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811 |
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... Aristotle changed this method of attack , and invent- ed a great variety of little weapons , called syllogisms . As in the Socratic way of dispute you agree to every thing which your opponent advances , in the Aristotelic you are still ...
... Aristotle changed this method of attack , and invent- ed a great variety of little weapons , called syllogisms . As in the Socratic way of dispute you agree to every thing which your opponent advances , in the Aristotelic you are still ...
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... Aristotle , and which were not commonly known by all the poets of the Augustan age . His way of expressing and applying them , not his in- vention of them , is what we are chiefly to admire . For this reason I think there is nothing in ...
... Aristotle , and which were not commonly known by all the poets of the Augustan age . His way of expressing and applying them , not his in- vention of them , is what we are chiefly to admire . For this reason I think there is nothing in ...
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... Aristotle himself allows , that Homer has nothing to boast of as to the unity of his fable , though at the same time , that great critic and philosopher endeavours to palliate this imperfection in the Greek poet , by im- puting it in ...
... Aristotle himself allows , that Homer has nothing to boast of as to the unity of his fable , though at the same time , that great critic and philosopher endeavours to palliate this imperfection in the Greek poet , by im- puting it in ...
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... Aristotle describes it , when it consists of a beginning , a middle , and an end . Nothing should go before it , be intermixed with it , or follow after it , that is not related to it ; as , on the contrary , no single step should be ...
... Aristotle describes it , when it consists of a beginning , a middle , and an end . Nothing should go before it , be intermixed with it , or follow after it , that is not related to it ; as , on the contrary , no single step should be ...
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... Aristotle , by the greatness of the action , does not only mean that it should be great in its nature , but also in its duration ; or , in other words , that it should have a due length in it , as well as what we properly call greatness ...
... Aristotle , by the greatness of the action , does not only mean that it should be great in its nature , but also in its duration ; or , in other words , that it should have a due length in it , as well as what we properly call greatness ...
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Página 149 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Página 121 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Página 388 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Página 435 - There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: 15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Página 182 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Página 442 - And nightly to the list'ning 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.
Página 194 - And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
Página 54 - Haste thee Nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; 30 Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Página 120 - Hail, horrors! hail, Infernal World! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor— one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time.
Página 61 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th...