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... able not only to im- prove them , but to point out their defects , it ought to be remembered that he wrote without those helps from combined taste and skill which they now enjoy . " It is not uncommon for those who have grown wise by ...
... able not only to im- prove them , but to point out their defects , it ought to be remembered that he wrote without those helps from combined taste and skill which they now enjoy . " It is not uncommon for those who have grown wise by ...
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... able , always easy ; and perhaps we should ac- knowledge the number of those who have form- ed themselves on the model of Addison to be greater , if , unfortunately , when we look for his style , we did not at the same time look for his ...
... able , always easy ; and perhaps we should ac- knowledge the number of those who have form- ed themselves on the model of Addison to be greater , if , unfortunately , when we look for his style , we did not at the same time look for his ...
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... are two mistakes in all the editions I have seen of Dr. Blair's Lectures . The passage in question oc eurs in No. 28 ; and No. 28 was not written by Addison . ceptionable style , or have even been able to fol- XXX HISTORICAL AND.
... are two mistakes in all the editions I have seen of Dr. Blair's Lectures . The passage in question oc eurs in No. 28 ; and No. 28 was not written by Addison . ceptionable style , or have even been able to fol- XXX HISTORICAL AND.
Сторінка xxxi
British essayists Alexander Chalmers. ceptionable style , or have even been able to fol- low their own canons . Of this Dr. Blair him- self affords a remarkable instance . Notwith- standing the long labour he had bestowed on his ...
British essayists Alexander Chalmers. ceptionable style , or have even been able to fol- low their own canons . Of this Dr. Blair him- self affords a remarkable instance . Notwith- standing the long labour he had bestowed on his ...
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... able to preserve himself from being enslaved by his auxiliary ? ” The same fact has been related by others in coarser language , and with an apparent design to depreciate a character not easily assailable in other points . That Addison ...
... able to preserve himself from being enslaved by his auxiliary ? ” The same fact has been related by others in coarser language , and with an apparent design to depreciate a character not easily assailable in other points . That Addison ...
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Сторінка xciv - ... town and country ; a great lover of mankind ; but there is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour, that he is rather beloved than esteemed. 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.
Сторінка xxix - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Сторінка 159 - Worship th' immortal gods. I AM always very well pleased with a country Sundav, 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,...
Сторінка lxxxvii - 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 238 - For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Сторінка xcv - His notions of trade are noble and generous, and (as every rich man has usually some sly way of jesting which would make no great figure were he not a rich man) he calls the sea the British Common. He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms, for true power is to be got by arts and industry. He will often argue, that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation, — and if another,...
Сторінка 161 - This authority of the Knight, though exerted in that odd manner which accompanies him in all circumstances of life, has a very good effect upon the parish, who are not polite enough to see any thing ridiculous in his behaviour.
Сторінка xcii - However, this humour creates him no enemies, for he does nothing with sourness or obstinacy, and his being unconfined to modes and forms makes him but the readier and more capable to please and oblige all who know him.
Сторінка 160 - He has often told me, that at his coming to his estate, he found his parishioners very irregular: and that in order to make them kneel, and join in the responses, he gave every one of them a hassock and a Common Prayer Book ; and at the same time employed an itinerant...
Сторінка 160 - Sometimes he will be lengthening out a verse in the singing psalms, half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it ; sometimes when he is pleased with the matter of his devotion, he pronounces