The Works of Joseph Addison: The Tatler. The GuardianPutnam, 1854 |
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... Plutarch , who knew better the avenues of this palace , conducted him into the great hall , and placed him at the upper end of the first table . My good dæmon , that I might see the whole ceremony , conveyed me to a corner of this room ...
... Plutarch , who knew better the avenues of this palace , conducted him into the great hall , and placed him at the upper end of the first table . My good dæmon , that I might see the whole ceremony , conveyed me to a corner of this room ...
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... Plutarch in that multifarious erudition , and those occasional dis- sertations , which he has wrought into the body of his history . The life I am putting out , is that of Margery , alias John Young , commonly known by the name of Dr ...
... Plutarch in that multifarious erudition , and those occasional dis- sertations , which he has wrought into the body of his history . The life I am putting out , is that of Margery , alias John Young , commonly known by the name of Dr ...
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... Plutarch than he has Tully . If he had , he would have observed a passage in that historian , wherein he has with great delicacy distinguished between two passions which are usually complicated in human nature , and which an Not ...
... Plutarch than he has Tully . If he had , he would have observed a passage in that historian , wherein he has with great delicacy distinguished between two passions which are usually complicated in human nature , and which an Not ...
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... Plutarch , that he was vain , but not abu- sive . Let the reader believe which of them he pleases . After this he complains to the world that I call him names ; and that in my passion I said , ' He was a flea , a louse , an owl , a bat ...
... Plutarch , that he was vain , but not abu- sive . Let the reader believe which of them he pleases . After this he complains to the world that I call him names ; and that in my passion I said , ' He was a flea , a louse , an owl , a bat ...
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... Plutarch and Aulus Gellius , which he wrote to Aristotle , upon hearing that he had published those lectures he had given him in private . This letter was written in the following words , at a time when he was in the height of his ...
... Plutarch and Aulus Gellius , which he wrote to Aristotle , upon hearing that he had published those lectures he had given him in private . This letter was written in the following words , at a time when he was in the height of his ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Addison admired Æneid agreeable Ajax Apartment appeared assembly Avarice bagpipes beautiful behaviour Bickerstaffe body called character confess court creature cusation dead death delightful desired discourse dream endeavoured eyes figure French kick gave gentleman give goddess greatest hand happiness hath head heard heart heroes Homer honour human humour Iphimedia Isaac Bickerstaffe Jupiter kind King of Sweden lady learned likewise lived look mankind manner means mention mind morning multitude Muscovy nation nature never observe occasion paper particular passed passion person petticoat Plato pleased pleasure poet present proper reader reason Roman Censors says sense shades Sheer-Lane sight silence Sir Richard Steele soul stood Styx Tatler Telemachus tell temple thing thou thought tion Tiresias told took turn Ulysses upholsterer Virgil virtue walk whole woman words young
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Página 100 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Página 93 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Página 219 - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Página 100 - But neither breath of Morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds ; nor rising sun On this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew ; nor fragrance, after showers ; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent Night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet.
Página 75 - O'er other creatures. Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded : wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanced, and like folly shows.
Página 101 - Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Página 186 - He is an universal scholar, so far as the title-page of all authors; knows the manuscripts in which they were discovered, the editions through which they have passed, with the praises or censures which they have received from the several members of the learned world. He has a greater esteem for Aldus and Elzevir, than for Virgil and Horace.
Página 268 - ... life ; but for not offering to rise at the second course, I found my patron and his lady very sullen, and out of humour, though at first I did not know the reason of it. At length, when I happened to help myself to a jelly, the lady of the house (otherwise a devout woman) told me, ' That it. did not become a man of my cloth, to delight in such frivolous food :' but as I still continued to sit out the last course, I was yesterday informed by the butler, that his lordship had no further occasion...
Página 229 - If a man has pains in his head, cholics in his bowels, or spots in his clothes, he may here meet with proper cures and remedies. If a man would recover a wife or a horse that is stolen or strayed, if he wants new sermons, electuaries, asses...
Página 100 - With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew : fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild; then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...