Selections from the Writings of Joseph AddisonGinn, 1905 - 346 Seiten |
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... Cato . Though vastly admired at the time as a model of classic elegance , and popular for political reasons , it nowadays seems very dull . In 1714 the Spectator1 was revived for a few months . Addi- son's subsequent writings are ...
... Cato . Though vastly admired at the time as a model of classic elegance , and popular for political reasons , it nowadays seems very dull . In 1714 the Spectator1 was revived for a few months . Addi- son's subsequent writings are ...
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... Cato , and recorded that though " a very sober man , " he was compelled by the nervous depression which preceded the rise of the curtain to keep up his spirits 2 1 Not everybody can have a nose . MARTIAL , Epigrams , i , 41 , 18 . 2 Cf ...
... Cato , and recorded that though " a very sober man , " he was compelled by the nervous depression which preceded the rise of the curtain to keep up his spirits 2 1 Not everybody can have a nose . MARTIAL , Epigrams , i , 41 , 18 . 2 Cf ...
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... " and " Remarks " on the Essay upon Criticism , Rape of the Lock , Dunciad , and the translation of Homer . attack on Addison in Remarks on Cato ( 1713 ) is well known . Dennis's I never answer'd , I was not in debt : INTRODUCTION xvii.
... " and " Remarks " on the Essay upon Criticism , Rape of the Lock , Dunciad , and the translation of Homer . attack on Addison in Remarks on Cato ( 1713 ) is well known . Dennis's I never answer'd , I was not in debt : INTRODUCTION xvii.
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... Cato give his little Senate laws , And sit attentive to his own applause ; While Wits and Templers ev'ry sentence raise , And wonder with a foolish face of praise . Who but must laugh , if such a man there be ? Who would not weep , if ...
... Cato give his little Senate laws , And sit attentive to his own applause ; While Wits and Templers ev'ry sentence raise , And wonder with a foolish face of praise . Who but must laugh , if such a man there be ? Who would not weep , if ...
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... Cato the most brilliant success of Addison's career . This play , begun during Addison's Italian travels , was neither completed nor produced until 1713. Dr. Johnson's criticism admirably defines the admiration it still commanded after ...
... Cato the most brilliant success of Addison's career . This play , begun during Addison's Italian travels , was neither completed nor produced until 1713. Dr. Johnson's criticism admirably defines the admiration it still commanded after ...
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Seite 74 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven, to inhabit among Men; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and in CoffeeHouses.
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 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 61 - 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 333 - 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 64 - He is very ready at that sort of discourse with which men usually entertain women. He has all his life dressed very well, and remembers habits as others do men. He can smile when one speaks to him, and laughs easily. He knows the history of every mode...
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 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...