Selections from the Writings of Joseph AddisonGinn, 1905 - 346 Seiten |
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... reasons , it nowadays seems very dull . In 1714 the Spectator1 was revived for a few months . Addi- son's subsequent writings are generally similar in character to those which have already been named . In August , 1716 , he was married ...
... reasons , it nowadays seems very dull . In 1714 the Spectator1 was revived for a few months . Addi- son's subsequent writings are generally similar in character to those which have already been named . In August , 1716 , he was married ...
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... reasons . In Macaulay's essay on Addison is a full account of the circumstances which conspired to make the tragedy of Cato the most brilliant success of Addison's career . This play , begun during Addison's Italian travels , was ...
... reasons . In Macaulay's essay on Addison is a full account of the circumstances which conspired to make the tragedy of Cato the most brilliant success of Addison's career . This play , begun during Addison's Italian travels , was ...
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... reason to believe that the verses were not by Frowde . ( Bodl .; B. M .; H. * ) 1712. The | Distrest Mother . | A | Tragedy . | As it is Acted at the | Theatre - Royal | in Drury - Lane . | By Her Majesty's Servants . | Writ- ten by Mr ...
... reason to believe that the verses were not by Frowde . ( Bodl .; B. M .; H. * ) 1712. The | Distrest Mother . | A | Tragedy . | As it is Acted at the | Theatre - Royal | in Drury - Lane . | By Her Majesty's Servants . | Writ- ten by Mr ...
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... reason , and by reason cool'd , In hours of peace content to be unknown , And only in the field of battel shown : To souls like these , in mutual friendship join'd , Heaven dares entrust the cause of human - kind . Britannia's graceful ...
... reason , and by reason cool'd , In hours of peace content to be unknown , And only in the field of battel shown : To souls like these , in mutual friendship join'd , Heaven dares entrust the cause of human - kind . Britannia's graceful ...
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... reason'st well ! Else whence this pleasing hope , this fond desire , This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread , and inward horror , Of falling into nought ? why shrinks the soul Back on her self , and startles at ...
... reason'st well ! Else whence this pleasing hope , this fond desire , This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread , and inward horror , Of falling into nought ? why shrinks the soul Back on her self , and startles at ...
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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.