Select Essays of Addison: Together with Macaulay's Essay on Addison's Life and WritingsAllyn and Bacon, 1893 - 320 páginas |
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... never " o'ersteps the modesty of nature , " nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth . His figures ... never deviates from his track to snatch a grace ; he seeks no ambitious ornaments and tries no hazardous innovations ...
... never " o'ersteps the modesty of nature , " nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth . His figures ... never deviates from his track to snatch a grace ; he seeks no ambitious ornaments and tries no hazardous innovations ...
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... never rapid and he never stagnates . His sentences have neither studied amplitude nor affected brevity ; his periods , though not diligently rounded , are voluble and easy . Whoever wishes to attain an English style , familiar but not ...
... never rapid and he never stagnates . His sentences have neither studied amplitude nor affected brevity ; his periods , though not diligently rounded , are voluble and easy . Whoever wishes to attain an English style , familiar but not ...
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... never open my lips but in my own club . Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind , than as one of the species , by which means I have made myself a speculative statesman , soldier , merchant , and ar- tisan , without ...
... never open my lips but in my own club . Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind , than as one of the species , by which means I have made myself a speculative statesman , soldier , merchant , and ar- tisan , without ...
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... 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 , which , in his merry humors , he tells us , has been in and out twelve times since he first wore it ...
... 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 , which , in his merry humors , he tells us , has been in and out twelve times since he first wore it ...
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... never over - bearing , though accustomed to command men in the utmost degree below him ; nor ever too obsequi- ous , from an habit of obeying men highly above him . But , that our society may not appear a set of humorists , unacquainted ...
... never over - bearing , though accustomed to command men in the utmost degree below him ; nor ever too obsequi- ous , from an habit of obeying men highly above him . But , that our society may not appear a set of humorists , unacquainted ...
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acquainted Acts of Parliament Addison Æneid afterwards Ambrose Philips appeared audience beautiful called church coffee-house consider conversation court Coverley critics dæmon death delight discourse dress endeavor enemies English entertained essays fancy Freeport friend Sir Roger genius gentleman give hand head hear heard heart Hilpa honest honor humor Isaac Bickerstaff kind king Knight lady learned letter lion live look mankind manner master mind morning nature never observed occasion ordinary paper particular party passed passion person pleased pleasure poet Pope reader reason republic of letters Roger de Coverley Roger hearing servants Shalum short side Sir Andrew Sir Richard Baker soul Spanish monarchy Spectator take notice Tatler tell thing thou thought tion Tirzah told Tory town Virgil virtue walk Westminster Abbey Whig whole widow Wimble words writing young