The Works of Joseph Addison: The Tatler. The GuardianPutnam, 1854 |
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... greatest honour , and have placed him at the head of those , whom we call our polite writers . I know that many readers prefer Dr. Swift's prose to his : —but whatever other merit the Dean's writings may have ( and they have , certainly ...
... greatest honour , and have placed him at the head of those , whom we call our polite writers . I know that many readers prefer Dr. Swift's prose to his : —but whatever other merit the Dean's writings may have ( and they have , certainly ...
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... greatest captains have been glad to come off with a drawn battle . Where prince Eugene has slain his thousands , Boyer has slain his ten thousands . This gentleman can indeed be never enough commended for his courage and intrepidity ...
... greatest captains have been glad to come off with a drawn battle . Where prince Eugene has slain his thousands , Boyer has slain his ten thousands . This gentleman can indeed be never enough commended for his courage and intrepidity ...
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... greatest statesman our country has produced , was particularly famous for dealing in whales ; insomuch , that in five months time ( for I had the curiosity to examine his letters on that occasion ) he brought three into the mouth of the ...
... greatest statesman our country has produced , was particularly famous for dealing in whales ; insomuch , that in five months time ( for I had the curiosity to examine his letters on that occasion ) he brought three into the mouth of the ...
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... greatest modesty . He has very much of the gentleman , with a lively colour , and flush of health in his aspect . His whole person is finely turned , and speaks him a man of quality which are qualifications that , I think , ought by no ...
... greatest modesty . He has very much of the gentleman , with a lively colour , and flush of health in his aspect . His whole person is finely turned , and speaks him a man of quality which are qualifications that , I think , ought by no ...
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... greatest difficulty was how to reduce the nose ; which I do not find was accomplished till about the middle of Henry the Seventh's reign , or rather the beginning of that of Henry the Eighth . ' But while our ancestors were thus taken ...
... greatest difficulty was how to reduce the nose ; which I do not find was accomplished till about the middle of Henry the Seventh's reign , or rather the beginning of that of Henry the Eighth . ' But while our ancestors were thus taken ...
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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...