Selections from the Writings of Joseph AddisonGinn, 1905 - 346 Seiten |
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... Tory Fox - Hunter becomes a Good Subject to King George 251 NOTES 255 Asterisks indicate the Spectator papers in which Sir Roger de Coverley appears or is mentioned . INTRODUCTION I Joseph Addison was born on May 1 , X CONTENTS.
... Tory Fox - Hunter becomes a Good Subject to King George 251 NOTES 255 Asterisks indicate the Spectator papers in which Sir Roger de Coverley appears or is mentioned . INTRODUCTION I Joseph Addison was born on May 1 , X CONTENTS.
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... appears to have been that Pope was jealous of Addison's literary success , and with characteristic malignity expressed his jealousy in these lines : Yet then did Gildon draw his venal quill ; I wish'd the man a dinner , and sate still ...
... appears to have been that Pope was jealous of Addison's literary success , and with characteristic malignity expressed his jealousy in these lines : Yet then did Gildon draw his venal quill ; I wish'd the man a dinner , and sate still ...
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... appear . Though intrinsically commonplace , by no means such as enrich world - literature , they at once throw light on the artistic temperament of their writer and indicate the sort of writing which in the times of King William and of ...
... appear . Though intrinsically commonplace , by no means such as enrich world - literature , they at once throw light on the artistic temperament of their writer and indicate the sort of writing which in the times of King William and of ...
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... appears , The rapid Adige then erects her head , And Mincio rising slowly from his bed , And last Timavus , that with eager force From nine wide mouths comes gushing to his course . His Larius is doubtless an imitation of Virgil's ...
... appears , The rapid Adige then erects her head , And Mincio rising slowly from his bed , And last Timavus , that with eager force From nine wide mouths comes gushing to his course . His Larius is doubtless an imitation of Virgil's ...
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... appear in a more compact and studied form in Addison's first considerable English poem , the Letter from Italy to the Right Honourable Charles Lord Halifax in the year MDCCI . After a politely apologetic address , he sets himself to his ...
... appear in a more compact and studied form in Addison's first considerable English poem , the Letter from Italy to the Right Honourable Charles Lord Halifax in the year MDCCI . After a politely apologetic address , he sets himself to his ...
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Seite xviii - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Seite 167 - 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 173 - A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Seite 25 - 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 26 - 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 329 - 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 61 - 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 169 - 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.
Seite 58 - Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species...
Seite 80 - ... though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy, and can therefore take a view of nature in her deep and solemn scenes with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones.