Selections from the Writings of Joseph AddisonGinn, 1905 - 346 páginas |
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... consider not what they are doing , or what they are suffering ; we wish only to know what they have to say . Cato is a being above our solicitude ; a man of whom the gods take care , and whom we leave to their care with heedless ...
... consider not what they are doing , or what they are suffering ; we wish only to know what they have to say . Cato is a being above our solicitude ; a man of whom the gods take care , and whom we leave to their care with heedless ...
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... Consider'd . | London : Printed , and Sold by J. Morphew near | Stationers Hall . 1708. ( Bodl .; B. M. * ; T. C. D. ) [ 1709. ] Phædra | And | Hippolitus . | A | Tragedy . | As it is Acted at the Queen's Theatre | In The | Hay - Market ...
... Consider'd . | London : Printed , and Sold by J. Morphew near | Stationers Hall . 1708. ( Bodl .; B. M. * ; T. C. D. ) [ 1709. ] Phædra | And | Hippolitus . | A | Tragedy . | As it is Acted at the Queen's Theatre | In The | Hay - Market ...
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... consider every Pedant ) when I dis- covered in him some little touches of the Coxcomb , which I had not before observed . Being very full of the figure which he makes in the Republick of Letters , and wonderfully satisfied with his ...
... consider every Pedant ) when I dis- covered in him some little touches of the Coxcomb , which I had not before observed . Being very full of the figure which he makes in the Republick of Letters , and wonderfully satisfied with his ...
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... consider how much I have seen , read and heard , I begin to blame my own taciturnity ; and since I have neither time nor inclination to communicate the fulness of my heart in speech , I am resolved to do it in writing , and to print my ...
... consider how much I have seen , read and heard , I begin to blame my own taciturnity ; and since I have neither time nor inclination to communicate the fulness of my heart in speech , I am resolved to do it in writing , and to print my ...
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... consider the Poets after the Conjurers , I shall give you a taste of the Italian from the first lines of his preface . Eccoti , benigno Lettore ; un Parto di poche Sere , che se ben nato di Notte , non è però aborto di Tenebre , mà si ...
... consider the Poets after the Conjurers , I shall give you a taste of the Italian from the first lines of his preface . Eccoti , benigno Lettore ; un Parto di poche Sere , che se ben nato di Notte , non è però aborto di Tenebre , mà si ...
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Addison admire Æneid appear Author Battle of Almanza beautiful Biog body Cæsar called Cato chap character Club Coffee-house death Dict discourse Dryden's edition England English Essay Eudoxus friend Sir ROGER Gentleman give hand head hear heard Hilpa honour imagination John Dunton Joseph Addison Juba kind King Knight Lady learned letter lives London look Lord manner Marcia mind Mohocks Motto Muscovy nature never observed occasion Opera paper particular pass passion person play pleased pleasure poem Poets Portius Prince printed publick published Queen Anne Reader reign Richard Steele says scene seems Shalum shew side sight Sir ANDREW Sir Richard Baker soul speak Spect Spectator Steele surprized Syphax Tatler tell thing thou thought told town Tragedy verse Virg Virgil vols Westminster Abbey Whig whole words writing ΙΟ
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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 58 - Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species...