Selections from the Writings of Joseph AddisonGinn, 1905 - 346 páginas |
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... Character of the Spectator . ✓2 . * The Members of the Club ✓5 . The Opera • 7. Popular Superstitions 10. The Purpose of the Spectator 26. Westminster Abbey sonal 34. The Spectator's Criticisms not Personal 37. A Lady's Library 39 ...
... Character of the Spectator . ✓2 . * The Members of the Club ✓5 . The Opera • 7. Popular Superstitions 10. The Purpose of the Spectator 26. Westminster Abbey sonal 34. The Spectator's Criticisms not Personal 37. A Lady's Library 39 ...
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... Character of a Tory Fox - Hunter . 242 44. The Tory Fox - Hunter visits London 247 47. The Tory Fox - Hunter becomes a Good Subject to King George 251 NOTES 255 Asterisks indicate the Spectator papers in which Sir Roger de Coverley ...
... Character of a Tory Fox - Hunter . 242 44. The Tory Fox - Hunter visits London 247 47. The Tory Fox - Hunter becomes a Good Subject to King George 251 NOTES 255 Asterisks indicate the Spectator papers in which Sir Roger de Coverley ...
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... character to those which have already been named . In August , 1716 , he was married to the Countess Dowager of Warwick . Tradition has it that he was henpecked . He died at her residence , Holland House , on June 17 , 1719 . II The ...
... character to those which have already been named . In August , 1716 , he was married to the Countess Dowager of Warwick . Tradition has it that he was henpecked . He died at her residence , Holland House , on June 17 , 1719 . II The ...
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... character in the Duke of Buckingham's burlesque play The Rehearsal . Addison's memory , however , is at fault . See The Rehearsal , ii , I : 66 Bays . But I must give you this caution by the way , be sure you never take snuff , when you ...
... character in the Duke of Buckingham's burlesque play The Rehearsal . Addison's memory , however , is at fault . See The Rehearsal , ii , I : 66 Bays . But I must give you this caution by the way , be sure you never take snuff , when you ...
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... character of Isaac Bickerstaff , a mock astrologer , who had lately been invented by Swift to torment an astrologic charlatan named Partridge . In his first Tatler , Mr. Bickerstaff promised to divide his papers into five parts , as ...
... character of Isaac Bickerstaff , a mock astrologer , who had lately been invented by Swift to torment an astrologic charlatan named Partridge . In his first Tatler , Mr. Bickerstaff promised to divide his papers into five parts , as ...
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Página xviii - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Página 167 - 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 173 - A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Página 25 - 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 26 - 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 329 - 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 61 - 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 169 - 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.
Página 58 - Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species...
Página 80 - ... though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy, and can therefore take a view of nature in her deep and solemn scenes with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones.