Selections from the Writings of Joseph AddisonGinn, 1905 - 346 Seiten |
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... . Swift's Journal to Stella , 1 Jan. , 1710-1711 ; Spence's Anecdotes , ed . 1820 , pp . 199 , 286 ; Tatler , ed . Nichols , London , 1797 , IV , 300 . with burgundy and champagne.1 The one thing which seems clear xvi INTRODUCTION.
... . Swift's Journal to Stella , 1 Jan. , 1710-1711 ; Spence's Anecdotes , ed . 1820 , pp . 199 , 286 ; Tatler , ed . Nichols , London , 1797 , IV , 300 . with burgundy and champagne.1 The one thing which seems clear xvi INTRODUCTION.
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... thing which seems clear is that Addison was constitutionally self - contained . What- ever his merits , he could never have been the sort of good fellow with whom everybody feels instantly at ease . Such a temperament often gives rise ...
... thing which seems clear is that Addison was constitutionally self - contained . What- ever his merits , he could never have been the sort of good fellow with whom everybody feels instantly at ease . Such a temperament often gives rise ...
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... thing , indeed , it has helped to maintain the aristocratic isolation of the great English universities : secondly , it per- sistently cultivates and develops a fastidious sense of literary form . A modern writer of Latin verse is not ...
... thing , indeed , it has helped to maintain the aristocratic isolation of the great English universities : secondly , it per- sistently cultivates and develops a fastidious sense of literary form . A modern writer of Latin verse is not ...
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... things which most engaged his attention were consequently things which Roman poets had written about . Take , for example , the following passage : 1 We saw the lake Benacus in our way , which the Italians now call Lago di Garda : it ...
... things which most engaged his attention were consequently things which Roman poets had written about . Take , for example , the following passage : 1 We saw the lake Benacus in our way , which the Italians now call Lago di Garda : it ...
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... thing right , they believe that they ought to assert it true ; and if an assertion be right , the truth of it seems to follow . Meanwhile they never think of inquiring whether a comparison of the assertion with observable facts will ...
... thing right , they believe that they ought to assert it true ; and if an assertion be right , the truth of it seems to follow . Meanwhile they never think of inquiring whether a comparison of the assertion with observable facts will ...
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Seite 60 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven, to inhabit among Men; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and in CoffeeHouses.
Seite 153 - 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...
Seite 159 - A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Seite 11 - 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.
Seite 47 - His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
Seite 319 - 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.
Seite 50 - He is very ready at that sort of discourse with which men usually entertain women. He has all his life dressed very well, and remembers habits as others do men. He can smile when one speaks to him, and laughs easily. He knows the history of every mode...
Seite 12 - 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.
Seite 47 - 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...
Seite 155 - 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.