Selections from the Writings of Joseph AddisonGinn, 1905 - 346 páginas |
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... late Mr. Addison was by no means free from this trait . So far as we may now judge , it seems to follow that Addison was one of those men , at once shy and prudent , whose very diffidence makes them incapable of unrestraint . The real ...
... late Mr. Addison was by no means free from this trait . So far as we may now judge , it seems to follow that Addison was one of those men , at once shy and prudent , whose very diffidence makes them incapable of unrestraint . The real ...
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... late to date it 1712 ; there is also to be considered the frequent practice of dating books ahead . But why vol . III should have been dated ahead or why it should have been held over to receive the list of subscribers is difficult to ...
... late to date it 1712 ; there is also to be considered the frequent practice of dating books ahead . But why vol . III should have been dated ahead or why it should have been held over to receive the list of subscribers is difficult to ...
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... late Excellent Mr. Addison . There needs no Proof to a learned Reader that this is fact , since the Sameness of Stile and Expression is a convincing Argument , that it could be wrote by no body but by that Author . " The poem is ...
... late Excellent Mr. Addison . There needs no Proof to a learned Reader that this is fact , since the Sameness of Stile and Expression is a convincing Argument , that it could be wrote by no body but by that Author . " The poem is ...
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... late Right Honourable | Joseph Addison , Esq ; | Now first published from an Original Manu- | script of Mr. Addison's , Prepared and Cor- | rected by himself . | London : | Printed for T. Osborne , in Gray's Inn . | M.DCC.XXXIX ...
... late Right Honourable | Joseph Addison , Esq ; | Now first published from an Original Manu- | script of Mr. Addison's , Prepared and Cor- | rected by himself . | London : | Printed for T. Osborne , in Gray's Inn . | M.DCC.XXXIX ...
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... late o'er pale Britannia past , Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And , pleas'd th ' Almighty's orders to perform , Rides in the whirl - wind , and directs the storm . But see the haughty houshold - troops advance ! The ...
... late o'er pale Britannia past , Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And , pleas'd th ' Almighty's orders to perform , Rides in the whirl - wind , and directs the storm . But see the haughty houshold - troops advance ! The ...
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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.