Selections from the Writings of Joseph AddisonGinn, 1905 - 346 Seiten |
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... gives a technical criticism and some specimens of the score . 2 See Steele to Maynwaring , Steele's Letters , London , 1787 , II , 293 ff . , and also Steele's preface to the Tatler . On Swift's use of the name Bickerstaff and on the ...
... gives a technical criticism and some specimens of the score . 2 See Steele to Maynwaring , Steele's Letters , London , 1787 , II , 293 ff . , and also Steele's preface to the Tatler . On Swift's use of the name Bickerstaff and on the ...
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... give you this caution by the way , be sure you never take snuff , when you write . Smith . Why so , Sir ? - Bays . Why , it spoil'd me once , egad , one of the sparkishest plays in all England . ” - against him . I have , since the ...
... give you this caution by the way , be sure you never take snuff , when you write . Smith . Why so , Sir ? - Bays . Why , it spoil'd me once , egad , one of the sparkishest plays in all England . ” - against him . I have , since the ...
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... gives rise to misunderstanding . Particularly when a shy man happens to be successful , he is often supposed to be far more deliberately self - seeking than is really the case . The very diffidence which is his burden is mistaken for ...
... gives rise to misunderstanding . Particularly when a shy man happens to be successful , he is often supposed to be far more deliberately self - seeking than is really the case . The very diffidence which is his burden is mistaken for ...
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... 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 ...
... 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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... give diplomatic appointments to college professors led the British politicians of King William's time to look with marked favor on promising youths who could make fluent verses in Latin . So to Addison himself these Latin poems had ...
... give diplomatic appointments to college professors led the British politicians of King William's time to look with marked favor on promising youths who could make fluent verses in Latin . So to Addison himself these Latin poems had ...
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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 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 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 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 331 - 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 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...