Select Essays of Addison: Together with Macaulay's Essay on Addison's Life and WritingsAllyn and Bacon, 1893 - 320 páginas |
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... turn to find information about men and things . To make the little text - book self- sufficing is to make it false to the facts of real life , for the real books of the world are bound together by infi- nite links of mutual explanation ...
... turn to find information about men and things . To make the little text - book self- sufficing is to make it false to the facts of real life , for the real books of the world are bound together by infi- nite links of mutual explanation ...
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... 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 of ind books is a little too ( just ) for the age he lives in ; he has ...
... 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 of ind books is a little too ( just ) for the age he lives in ; he has ...
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... turns , and revolu- tions in a game of ombre . When he has gone thus far , he has shown you the whole circle of his accomplishments , his parts are drained , and he is disabled from any farther con- versation . What are these but rank ...
... turns , and revolu- tions in a game of ombre . When he has gone thus far , he has shown you the whole circle of his accomplishments , his parts are drained , and he is disabled from any farther con- versation . What are these but rank ...
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... turn to his own advantage , though they are of little use to the owner . The worst kind of pedants among learned men , are such as are naturally endowed with a very small share of common sense , and have read a great number of books ...
... turn to his own advantage , though they are of little use to the owner . The worst kind of pedants among learned men , are such as are naturally endowed with a very small share of common sense , and have read a great number of books ...
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... turning to her says , ' I am very glad to observe Sir Roger pauses upon this subject , and seems resolved to deliver all his sentiments upon the matter when he pleases to speak . ' They both kept their countenances , and after I had sat ...
... turning to her says , ' I am very glad to observe Sir Roger pauses upon this subject , and seems resolved to deliver all his sentiments upon the matter when he pleases to speak . ' They both kept their countenances , and after I had sat ...
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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