The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works, Band 4Putnam, 1854 |
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... verse in Virgil is worth all the clinquant or tinsel of Tasso . 2 1 Rinaldo , an opera , planned by Aaron Hill : versified by G. Rossi , set by Handel . Walsh got £ 1,500 by printing it.-G. 2 A Malherbe , à Ratan préférer Théophile Et ...
... verse in Virgil is worth all the clinquant or tinsel of Tasso . 2 1 Rinaldo , an opera , planned by Aaron Hill : versified by G. Rossi , set by Handel . Walsh got £ 1,500 by printing it.-G. 2 A Malherbe , à Ratan préférer Théophile Et ...
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... verses out of his poem of Vandyke . The heedless lover does not know Whose eyes they are that wound him so ; But , confounded with thy art , Inquires her name that has his heart . I pronounced these words with such a languishing air ...
... verses out of his poem of Vandyke . The heedless lover does not know Whose eyes they are that wound him so ; But , confounded with thy art , Inquires her name that has his heart . I pronounced these words with such a languishing air ...
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... verse together every night . I remember , upon my inquiring after lodgings in Ormond - street , the landlord , to recommend that quarter of the town , told me , there was at that time a very good club in it he also told me , upon ...
... verse together every night . I remember , upon my inquiring after lodgings in Ormond - street , the landlord , to recommend that quarter of the town , told me , there was at that time a very good club in it he also told me , upon ...
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... verses for their toasting glasses were written by Garth , and the portraits of all its members painted by Kneller , who was himself one of their num- ber ; hence all portraits of the same dimensions are at this time known by the name of ...
... verses for their toasting glasses were written by Garth , and the portraits of all its members painted by Kneller , who was himself one of their num- ber ; hence all portraits of the same dimensions are at this time known by the name of ...
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... verse in old Hesiod , which is almost word for word the same with his third line in the following passage . -Nor think , though men were none , That Heav'n would want spectators , God want praise : Millions of spiritual creatures walk ...
... verse in old Hesiod , which is almost word for word the same with his third line in the following passage . -Nor think , though men were none , That Heav'n would want spectators , God want praise : Millions of spiritual creatures walk ...
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acquainted acrostic Addison admiration Alcibiades anagrams ancient appear Aristotle audience beautiful behaviour Ben Jonson body Boileau called character Cicero club consider conversation Daily Courant delight discourse dress DRYDEN endeavour English entertainment father forbear French genius gentleman give hand heard heart hero honour Hudibras humour insomuch Italian kind kings lady laugh learned letter likewise lion Little Britain live look lover mankind manner means mind Mohocks nation nature never observed occasion opera ordinary OVID paper particular passion person pleased pleasure poem poet racter reader reason rhymes ridicule ROSCOMMON Sappho satire says scenes sense shew short Sir Roger Socrates soul speak species Spectator stage Tatler tell temper Theodosius thing thou thought tion told tragedy Tryphiodorus verse VIRG Virgil virtue Whig whole woman women words writing
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Seite 382 - ... fountains, or resting on beds of flowers: and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments. — Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats; but the genius told me there was no passage to them, except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge. —
Seite 48 - Shine not in vain ; nor think, though men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise : Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Seite 83 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Seite 12 - It is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him.
Seite 381 - I could discover nothing in it; but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Seite 379 - The genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions with which I approached him. He lifted me from the ground, and taking me by the hand, Mirza, said he, I have heard thee in thy soliloquies ; follow me.
Seite 381 - I observed some with scimitars in their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trap-doors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped, had they not been thus forced upon them. "The genius, seeing me indulge myself in this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it. ' Take thine eyes off the bridge,' said he, ' and tell me if thou yet seest anything thou dost not comprehend.' Upon looking up,...
Seite 2 - 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 220 - The stout Earl of Northumberland, A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer's days to take; The chiefest harts in Chevy-Chase To kill and bear away.
Seite 13 - ... 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...