Essays from AddisonMacmillan Company, 1907 - 112 páginas |
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Página vii
... never stilted . This fact makes him still , as in Dr. Johnson's day , the best model for most of us . It is the " middle style " that is needed in almost all human intercourse - in the writing of essays , novels , histories , sermons ...
... never stilted . This fact makes him still , as in Dr. Johnson's day , the best model for most of us . It is the " middle style " that is needed in almost all human intercourse - in the writing of essays , novels , histories , sermons ...
Página xi
... never been expressed in words before , obscurity is sometimes unavoidable . ( 2 ) The ease of Addison's manner has been mentioned : Prof. Courthope calls it " that perfection of well - bred ease which arises from a complete ...
... never been expressed in words before , obscurity is sometimes unavoidable . ( 2 ) The ease of Addison's manner has been mentioned : Prof. Courthope calls it " that perfection of well - bred ease which arises from a complete ...
Página xvi
... never have seen his defects , but by the lights which he afforded them . That he always wrote as he would think it necessary to write now , cannot be affirmed ; his instructions were such as the characters of his readers made proper ...
... never have seen his defects , but by the lights which he afforded them . That he always wrote as he would think it necessary to write now , cannot be affirmed ; his instructions were such as the characters of his readers made proper ...
Página xvii
... never ' outsteps the modesty of nature , ' nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth . His figures ... never deviates from his track to snatch a grace he seeks no ambitious ornaments and tries no hazardous innovations ...
... never ' outsteps the modesty of nature , ' nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth . His figures ... never deviates from his track to snatch a grace he seeks no ambitious ornaments and tries no hazardous innovations ...
Página xviii
... never rapid , and he never stagnates . His sentences have neither studied amplitude nor affected brevity : his periods , though not diligently rounded , are voluble and easy . Whoever wishes to attain an English style , familiar but not ...
... never rapid , and he never stagnates . His sentences have neither studied amplitude nor affected brevity : his periods , though not diligently rounded , are voluble and easy . Whoever wishes to attain an English style , familiar but not ...
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Página 68 - The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life ; consider it attentively. Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which, added to those that were entire, made up the number about an hundred.
Página 67 - Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to another, " Surely," said I, " man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Página 68 - But tell me further, said he, what thou discoverest on it. I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it. As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon...
Página 82 - Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow ; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
Página 60 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself or sends his servants to them.
Página 78 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Página 70 - I could discover nothing in it: but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Página 61 - I was yesterday very much surprised to hear my old friend, in the midst of the service, calling out to one John Matthews to mind what he was about, and not disturb the congregation. This John Matthews it seems is remarkable for being an idle fellow, and at that time was kicking his heels for his diversion.
Página 57 - I have observed in several of my papers that my friend Sir Roger, amidst all his good qualities, is something of a humorist ; and that his virtues, as well as imperfections, are, as it were, tinged by a certain extravagance which makes them particularly his, and distinguishes them from those of other men. This cast of...
Página 67 - man is but a shadow and life a dream.' Whilst I was thus musing, I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me, where I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a musical instrument in his hand.