The Spectator [by J. Addison and others] with sketches of the lives of the authors, and explanatory notes. 12 vols. [in 6]., Bände 1-21853 |
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... are known and appear inter- esting respecting the principal writers , are here subjoined , and the names of the authors them- selves are placed before their respective papers . SKETCHES OF THE LIVES OF THE AUTHORS . SIR RICHARD vi PREFACE .
... are known and appear inter- esting respecting the principal writers , are here subjoined , and the names of the authors them- selves are placed before their respective papers . SKETCHES OF THE LIVES OF THE AUTHORS . SIR RICHARD vi PREFACE .
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... writer of periodical essays , the name of Steele is entitled to the first place . Papers on a plan somewhat similar ... writers for the thea- tre are excepted ( says Johnson , ) England had no masters of common life , no writers had yet ...
... writer of periodical essays , the name of Steele is entitled to the first place . Papers on a plan somewhat similar ... writers for the thea- tre are excepted ( says Johnson , ) England had no masters of common life , no writers had yet ...
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... writers , of which we are by no means certain , we must allow that he had the merit of highly improving a plan which before was imperfectly sketched . But the merit of Steele is not confined to the mere planning of the periodical works ...
... writers , of which we are by no means certain , we must allow that he had the merit of highly improving a plan which before was imperfectly sketched . But the merit of Steele is not confined to the mere planning of the periodical works ...
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... writers of the Spectator , but also by Pope and Dr. Berkley , afterwards the celebrated Bishop of Cloyne . This work was conducted upon the same general principles , and with the same ele- gance of taste , as the former , " till some ...
... writers of the Spectator , but also by Pope and Dr. Berkley , afterwards the celebrated Bishop of Cloyne . This work was conducted upon the same general principles , and with the same ele- gance of taste , as the former , " till some ...
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... writer , as a man , and as a Christian , the merit of Mr. Addison can not be too highly ex- tolled . His style has been always esteemed a model of excellence by men of taste . His humour has a charm which can not be described ; his ...
... writer , as a man , and as a Christian , the merit of Mr. Addison can not be too highly ex- tolled . His style has been always esteemed a model of excellence by men of taste . His humour has a charm which can not be described ; his ...
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Seite 242 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Seite 155 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Seite 180 - Manlike, but different sex, so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the World, seem'd now Mean, or in her summ'd up...
Seite 258 - ROGER'S family, because it consists of sober and staid persons; for as the knight is the best master in the world, he seldom changes his servants; and as he is beloved by all about him, his servants never care for leaving him. By this means his domestics are all in years, and grown old with their master. You would take his valet...
Seite 262 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Seite 181 - Yet innocence and virgin modesty, Her virtue, and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won, Not obvious, not obtrusive, but...
Seite 30 - Tree, and in the theatres both of Drury Lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stock-jobbers at Jonathan's.
Seite 260 - At his first settling with me I made him a present of all the good sermons which have been printed in English, and only begged of him that every Sunday he would pronounce one of them in the pulpit. Accordingly he has digested them into such a series that they follow one another naturally, and make a continued system of practical divinity.
Seite 34 - ... both in 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 152 - ... and enemies, priests and soldiers, monks and prebendaries, were crumbled amongst one another, and blended together in the same common mass ; how beauty, strength, and youth, with old age, weakness, and deformity, lay undistinguished in the same promiscuous heap of matter.