The Life of Joseph AddisonCarey and Hart, 1846 - 279 стор. |
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... spirit , and a vivacity , which give a very agreeable idea of the author , and throws a charm even over so uninviting a theme as the domestic treasons , murders , and civil wars of fierce and ignorant barbarians . The description of the ...
... spirit , and a vivacity , which give a very agreeable idea of the author , and throws a charm even over so uninviting a theme as the domestic treasons , murders , and civil wars of fierce and ignorant barbarians . The description of the ...
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... spirit ; and even at the present day it might be difficult to point out any piece in our language containing the same amount of accurate information respecting the Barbary Jews , as this now neglected and nearly forgotten work . There ...
... spirit ; and even at the present day it might be difficult to point out any piece in our language containing the same amount of accurate information respecting the Barbary Jews , as this now neglected and nearly forgotten work . There ...
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... spirit of Addison at any time overlooked the encouragement to political partizanship afforded by this state of things ; yet in the earlier productions of his muse , it was to the attainment of reputation as the poet and the scholar that ...
... spirit of Addison at any time overlooked the encouragement to political partizanship afforded by this state of things ; yet in the earlier productions of his muse , it was to the attainment of reputation as the poet and the scholar that ...
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... spirit of literary patronage which , with its causes , has been already adverted to , that it tempted the poets to an injudicious choice of themes . Extraordinary as it may at first sight appear , facts will bear out the assertion ...
... spirit of literary patronage which , with its causes , has been already adverted to , that it tempted the poets to an injudicious choice of themes . Extraordinary as it may at first sight appear , facts will bear out the assertion ...
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... spirit and elegance as they had been ridiculed for half a century . " On this passage , which perhaps deserved some reprehension for the abjectness of spirit which it unwarily imputed to a man of wit and genius whose after career ...
... spirit and elegance as they had been ridiculed for half a century . " On this passage , which perhaps deserved some reprehension for the abjectness of spirit which it unwarily imputed to a man of wit and genius whose after career ...
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Сторінка 108 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia...
Сторінка 79 - For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, poetic fields encompass me around, and still I seem to tread on classic ground...
Сторінка 112 - The time in which he lived had reason to lament his obstinacy of silence, 'for he was,' says Steele, 'above all men in that talent called humour, and enjoyed it in such perfection that I have often reflected, after a night spent with him apart from all the world, that I had had the pleasure of conversing with an intimate acquaintance of Terence and Catullus, who had all their wit and nature, heightened with humour more exquisite and delightful than any other man ever possessed.
Сторінка 57 - The king has humoured the genius of the place, and only made use of so much art as is necessary to help and regulate nature without reforming her too much.
Сторінка 201 - One would have thought it impossible for this kind of poetry, to have subsisted without fawns and satyrs, wood-nymphs and water-nymphs, with all the tribe of rural deities. But we see he has given a new life, and a more natural beauty to this way of writing, by substituting in the place of...
Сторінка 210 - Philips seemed to have been encouraged to abuse me in coffee-houses, and conversations: and Gildon wrote a thing about Wycherley, in which he had abused both me and my relations very grossly. Lord Warwick himself told me one day, that it was in vain for me to endeavour to be well with Mr. Addison; that his jealous temper would never admit of a settled friendship between us; and, to convince me of what he had said, assured me, that Addison had encouraged Gildon to publish those scandals, and had given...
Сторінка 170 - Mr. Addison and I are different as black and white, and I believe our friendship will go off, by this damned business of party: he cannot bear seeing me fall in so with this ministry ; but I love him still as well as ever, though we seldom meet.
Сторінка 274 - For, after a long and manly, but vain, struggle with his distemper, he dismissed his physicians, and with them all hopes of life. But with his hopes of life he dismissed not his concern for the living, but sent for a youth nearly related and finely accomplished, yet not above being the better for good impressions from a dying friend.
Сторінка 186 - ignorance of the moderns, the scribblers of the age, the decay of poetry/ are the topics of detraction with which he makes his entrance into the world : but how much more noble is the fame that is built on candour and ingenuity, according to those beautiful lines of Sir John Denham, in his poem on Fletcher's works...
Сторінка 171 - tis often very pretty. Yesterday it was made of a noble hint I gave him long ago for his Tatlers, about an Indian supposed to write his travels into England. I repent he ever had it. I intended to have written a book on that subject. I believe he has spent it all in one paper, and all the under hints there are mine too ; but I never see him or Addison.