The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160H. G. Bohn, 1854 - 8 стор. |
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Сторінка iii
... writers ; whose language and manner he caught at that time of life , as strongly as other young people gain a French accent or a genteel air . An early acquaintance with the classics is what may be called the good - breeding of poetry ...
... writers ; whose language and manner he caught at that time of life , as strongly as other young people gain a French accent or a genteel air . An early acquaintance with the classics is what may be called the good - breeding of poetry ...
Сторінка vi
... writers themselves , this is the surest way of coming at their sense : a compendious and engaging kind of criticism , which con- vinces at first sight , and shows the vanity of conjectures made by antiquaries at a distance . If the ...
... writers themselves , this is the surest way of coming at their sense : a compendious and engaging kind of criticism , which con- vinces at first sight , and shows the vanity of conjectures made by antiquaries at a distance . If the ...
Сторінка viii
... writing of which they both were concerned . - The plan of the Spectator , as far as it regards the feigned person of the author , and of the several characters that com- pose his club , was projected in concert with Sir Richard Steele ...
... writing of which they both were concerned . - The plan of the Spectator , as far as it regards the feigned person of the author , and of the several characters that com- pose his club , was projected in concert with Sir Richard Steele ...
Сторінка ix
... writing a play upon this subject , when he was very young at the university , and even attempted something in it there , though not a line as it now stands . The work was performed by him in his travels , and retouched in England ...
... writing a play upon this subject , when he was very young at the university , and even attempted something in it there , though not a line as it now stands . The work was performed by him in his travels , and retouched in England ...
Сторінка x
... writing of another tragedy , the death of Socrates would have been the story . And , how- ever unpromising that subject may appear , it would be pre- sumptuous to censure his choice , who was so famous for raising the noblest plants ...
... writing of another tragedy , the death of Socrates would have been the story . And , how- ever unpromising that subject may appear , it would be pre- sumptuous to censure his choice , who was so famous for raising the noblest plants ...
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Сторінка 63 - 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.
Сторінка 63 - 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
Сторінка 502 - 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 yet seest anything thou dost not comprehend." Upon looking up,
Сторінка 501 - Examine now, said he, this sea that is bounded with darkness at both ends, and tell me what thou discoverest in it. I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide.
Сторінка 228 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Сторінка 43 - 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...
Сторінка 159 - 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 Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Сторінка 503 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.
Сторінка 446 - 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. It is certain the country people would soon degenerate into a kind of savages and barbarians, were there not such frequent returns of a stated time, in which the whole village meet together with their best faces, and in their cleanliest habits, to converse with one another...
Сторінка 259 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep: All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Beth day and night.