The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160H. G. Bohn, 1854 - 8 Seiten |
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... one of the best authors since the Augustan age , in the two uni- versities and the greatest part of Europe , before he was talked of as a poet in town . There is not , perhaps , any harder task than to tame the natural wildness of wit.
... one of the best authors since the Augustan age , in the two uni- versities and the greatest part of Europe , before he was talked of as a poet in town . There is not , perhaps , any harder task than to tame the natural wildness of wit.
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... poets abound in forced conceits and affected phrases ; and even those who are said to come the nearest to exactness ... poet , among the civilities he showed Mr. Addison on that occa- sion , affirmed , that he would not have written ...
... poets abound in forced conceits and affected phrases ; and even those who are said to come the nearest to exactness ... poet , among the civilities he showed Mr. Addison on that occa- sion , affirmed , that he would not have written ...
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... poetic fires ! Slow comes the verse that real woe inspires : Grief unaffected suits but ill with art , Or flowing numbers with a bleeding heart . Can I forget the dismal night , that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave ! How ...
... poetic fires ! Slow comes the verse that real woe inspires : Grief unaffected suits but ill with art , Or flowing numbers with a bleeding heart . Can I forget the dismal night , that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave ! How ...
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... poets . As it is , I expect an offspring fit for the habitation of city , town , or country ; creatures that are docile and tractable in whatever we put them to . To convince men of the necessity of taking this method , let any one ...
... poets . As it is , I expect an offspring fit for the habitation of city , town , or country ; creatures that are docile and tractable in whatever we put them to . To convince men of the necessity of taking this method , let any one ...
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... poet was at the head of them , who , observing Homer and Virgil at the table , was going to sit down himself , had not the latter whispered him , That what- ever pretence he might otherwise have had , he forfeited his claim to it by ...
... poet was at the head of them , who , observing Homer and Virgil at the table , was going to sit down himself , had not the latter whispered him , That what- ever pretence he might otherwise have had , he forfeited his claim to it by ...
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Seite 63 - But neither breath of Morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds ; nor rising sun On this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew ; nor fragrance, after showers ; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent Night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet.
Seite 63 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Seite 502 - I observed some with scimitars in their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trapdoors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped had they not been thus forced upon them. ' The genius seeing me indulge myself in this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it : " Take thine eyes off the bridge," said he, " and tell me if thou yet seest anything thou dost not comprehend." Upon looking up,
Seite 501 - Examine now, said he, this sea that is bounded with darkness at both ends, and tell me what thou discoverest in it. I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide.
Seite 228 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Seite 43 - O'er other creatures : yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best : All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanced, and like folly shows...
Seite 159 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Seite 503 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.
Seite 446 - I AM always very well pleased with a country Sunday, and think, if keeping holy the seventh day were only a human institution, it would be the best method that could have been thought of for the polishing and civilizing of mankind. It is certain the country people would soon degenerate into a kind of savages and barbarians, were there not such frequent returns of a stated time, in which the whole village meet together with their best faces, and in their cleanliest habits, to converse with one another...
Seite 259 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep: All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Beth day and night.