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... Characters of Lætitia and Daphne .... Art of improving Beauty ............ HUGHES 34. Success of the Spectators with ... Character at the Coffee - houses - Eu- bulus .... 50. Remarks on the English , by the Indian Kings ........ ADDISON ...
... Characters of Lætitia and Daphne .... Art of improving Beauty ............ HUGHES 34. Success of the Spectators with ... Character at the Coffee - houses - Eu- bulus .... 50. Remarks on the English , by the Indian Kings ........ ADDISON ...
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... character he was to preserve , with great felicity of humour . The second , by Steele , delineates the characters of the Club , or the dramatis persona of the work , the principal of whom is Sir Roger de Coverley . Dr. John- son's ...
... character he was to preserve , with great felicity of humour . The second , by Steele , delineates the characters of the Club , or the dramatis persona of the work , the principal of whom is Sir Roger de Coverley . Dr. John- son's ...
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... character of Sir Roger de Coverley ; I am inclined to suppose , that the learned biographer had forgotten some things relating to that gentleman . " He seems to think that Addison had formed an idea of Sir Roger which he never exhibited ...
... character of Sir Roger de Coverley ; I am inclined to suppose , that the learned biographer had forgotten some things relating to that gentleman . " He seems to think that Addison had formed an idea of Sir Roger which he never exhibited ...
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... character so fully , that every reader finds himself intimately ac- quainted with it . Considering what is done , one cannot doubt the author's ability to have sup- ported the character through a much greater variety of conversations ...
... character so fully , that every reader finds himself intimately ac- quainted with it . Considering what is done , one cannot doubt the author's ability to have sup- ported the character through a much greater variety of conversations ...
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... character of Sir Roger de Coverley in the general ; but it has not been attended to by ei- ther of these critics , that Sir Roger was not the creature of Addison's , but of Steele's fancy ; and it is not easy to discover why all writers ...
... character of Sir Roger de Coverley in the general ; but it has not been attended to by ei- ther of these critics , that Sir Roger was not the creature of Addison's , but of Steele's fancy ; and it is not easy to discover why all writers ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquaint acrostics Addison admiration Æneid agreeable appear APRIL April 17 Aristotle audience beauty behaviour Ben Jonson Bouts-Rimés called character club coffee-house conversation delight Delphos discourse diversion dress endeavour English entertainment eyes false Falstaff favour French frequently genius gentleman George Etheridge give graces heart hero honour Hudibras humble servant humour innu insomuch Italian kind kings lady Lætitia language laugh letter lion live look lover manner means merit merry mind mirth mistress nature neral never observed occasion opera OVID paper particular passion periwig person Pict play playhouse pleased poem poet Porus present racter reader reason rhymes ridicule Roger de Coverley ROSCOMMON SALMONEUS says scenes sense Sir Roger speak Spectator stage Tatler tell thing thought tion told tragedy verse VIRG whole woman women word writing young
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Seite xciv - ... town and country ; a great lover of mankind ; but there is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour, that he is rather beloved than esteemed. 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 xxix - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Seite 159 - Worship th' immortal gods. I AM always very well pleased with a country Sundav, 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,...
Seite lxxxvii - 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 238 - For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Seite xcv - His notions of trade are noble and generous, and (as every rich man has usually some sly way of jesting which would make no great figure were he not a rich man) he calls the sea the British Common. He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms, for true power is to be got by arts and industry. He will often argue, that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation, — and if another,...
Seite 161 - This authority of the Knight, though exerted in that odd manner which accompanies him in all circumstances of life, has a very good effect upon the parish, who are not polite enough to see any thing ridiculous in his behaviour.
Seite xcii - However, this humour creates him no enemies, for he does nothing with sourness or obstinacy, and his being unconfined to modes and forms makes him but the readier and more capable to please and oblige all who know him.
Seite 160 - He has often told me, that at his coming to his estate, he found his parishioners very irregular: and that in order to make them kneel, and join in the responses, he gave every one of them a hassock and a Common Prayer Book ; and at the same time employed an itinerant...
Seite 160 - Sometimes he will be lengthening out a verse in the singing psalms, half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it ; sometimes when he is pleased with the matter of his devotion, he pronounces