Select Essays of Addison: Together with Macaulay's Essay on Addison's Life and WritingsAllyn and Bacon, 1892 - 320 стор. |
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Addison Æneid afterwards Ambrose Philips appeared beautiful called consider conversation Coverley dæmon death delight discourse edition Encyclo endeavor England English essays fox-hunter friend Sir Roger genius gentleman Georgic give hand head hear heard heart Hilpa History honor house of Bourbon humor Iliad Isaac Bickerstaff kind king Knight lady Lancelot Addison learned letter lion literary live look Lord Macaulay's mankind manner master means mind morning nature never observed occasion paper particular party passed person pleased pleasure poet political Pope pupils reader reason reign ridicule Roger de Coverley says servants Shalum side Sir Andrew Sir Richard Baker soul Spanish monarchy Spectator Steele Sunderland Tatler tell thing thou thought Tickell tion Tirzah told Tories town verses virtue Voltaire walk Whig Whig party whole words writing young
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Сторінка 317 - Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Сторінка 317 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise ; Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Сторінка 222 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The Moon takes up the wondrous tale; And nightly, to the listening Earth, Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets, in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Сторінка 2 - Whether this might proceed from a law-suit which was then depending in the family, or my father's being a justice of the peace, I cannot determine; for I am not so vain as to think it presaged any dignity that I should arrive at in my future life, though that was the interpretation which the neighborhood put upon it.
Сторінка 159 - I observed some with scimitars in their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trapdoors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped had they not been thus forced upon them. The genius seeing me indulge myself in this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it. " Take thine eyes off the bridge," said he, " and tell me if thou seest anything thou dost not comprehend." Upon looking up, "What mean...
Сторінка 198 - IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy, would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.
Сторінка 220 - When in the slippery paths of youth, With heedless steps, I ran ; Thine arm, unseen, conveyed me safe, And led me up to man.
Сторінка xix - What he attempted, he performed : he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ;* he is 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 coarse, and elegant but not ostentations, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Сторінка 17 - HAVING often received an invitation from my friend Sir Roger de Coverley, to pass away a month with him in the country, I last week accompanied him thither, and am settled with him for some time at his countryhouse, where I intend to form several of my ensuing speculations. Sir Roger, who is very well acquainted with my humour, lets me rise and go to bed when I please, dine at his own table or in my chamber as I think fit, sit still and say nothing without bidding me be merry. When the gentlemen...
Сторінка 31 - I AM always very well pleased with a country Sunday ; and think, if keeping holy the seventh day were only a human institution, it would be the best method that could have been thought of for the polishing and civilizing of mankind.