Selections from the Writings of Joseph AddisonGinn, 1905 - 346 páginas |
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... Queen Anne , came chiefly from political parties who needed professional literary advocates . Such a public career as Addison's would have been possible under no other circumstances . As the author of some promising verse , he received ...
... Queen Anne , came chiefly from political parties who needed professional literary advocates . Such a public career as Addison's would have been possible under no other circumstances . As the author of some promising verse , he received ...
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... Queen Anne's time would have been little more conscious of its cant than we are of the affec- tionate insincerity involved in the prefatory address to every letter we write . The British cant which pervades The Cam- paign , indeed ...
... Queen Anne's time would have been little more conscious of its cant than we are of the affec- tionate insincerity involved in the prefatory address to every letter we write . The British cant which pervades The Cam- paign , indeed ...
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... Queen . The Tatler , in short , represents periodical literature in almost the earliest stage of evolution . It was differentiated from other literature by the fact of its periodicity . Otherwise , at least for a while , it remained ...
... Queen . The Tatler , in short , represents periodical literature in almost the earliest stage of evolution . It was differentiated from other literature by the fact of its periodicity . Otherwise , at least for a while , it remained ...
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... Queen Anne were born in the reign of King Charles II . The very name of that sovereign suggests the state of fashion- able morals which surrounded Addison's youth . Quite to understand the Restoration , however , and understanding of ...
... Queen Anne were born in the reign of King Charles II . The very name of that sovereign suggests the state of fashion- able morals which surrounded Addison's youth . Quite to understand the Restoration , however , and understanding of ...
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... Queen Anne will teach you more about him than months of elaborate , detailed study . You will grow to know him as peo- ple knew John Leech thirty years ago , as more lately we ourselves knew George du Maurier . You may not be xxxviii ...
... Queen Anne will teach you more about him than months of elaborate , detailed study . You will grow to know him as peo- ple knew John Leech thirty years ago , as more lately we ourselves knew George du Maurier . You may not be xxxviii ...
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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 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...
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 173 - A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
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 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...