Selections from Addison's Papers in the Spectator: Essay on "Addison,"Estes and Lauriat, 1879 - 235 стор. |
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... writers of rhetoric have treated of punning with very great respect , and divided the several kinds of it into hard names , that are reck- oned among the figures of speech , and recommended as ornaments in discourse . I remember a ...
... writers of rhetoric have treated of punning with very great respect , and divided the several kinds of it into hard names , that are reck- oned among the figures of speech , and recommended as ornaments in discourse . I remember a ...
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... writing , were destitute of all rules and arts of criticism ; and for that reason , though they excel later writers in greatness of genius , they fall short of them in accuracy and correctness . The moderns cannot reach their beauties ...
... writing , were destitute of all rules and arts of criticism ; and for that reason , though they excel later writers in greatness of genius , they fall short of them in accuracy and correctness . The moderns cannot reach their beauties ...
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... writers have the least opportu- nity of knowing the truth , they are in the best dispo- sition to tell it . It is therefore the privilege of posterity to adjust the characters of illustrious persons , and to set mat- ters right between ...
... writers have the least opportu- nity of knowing the truth , they are in the best dispo- sition to tell it . It is therefore the privilege of posterity to adjust the characters of illustrious persons , and to set mat- ters right between ...
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... writers . who endeavored to detract from the works of this author ; but as nothing of this nature is come down to us , we cannot guess at any objections that could be made to his paper . If we consider his style with that indulgence ...
... writers . who endeavored to detract from the works of this author ; but as nothing of this nature is come down to us , we cannot guess at any objections that could be made to his paper . If we consider his style with that indulgence ...
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... writing , and in all the solemn offices of our religion . As in the instances I have given we have epito- mized many of our particular words to the detriment of our tongue , so on other occasions we have drawn . two words into one ...
... writing , and in all the solemn offices of our religion . As in the instances I have given we have epito- mized many of our particular words to the detriment of our tongue , so on other occasions we have drawn . two words into one ...
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Сторінка 34 - As I was walking with him last night, he asked me how I liked the good man whom I have just now mentioned ? and without staying for my answer told me. that he was afraid of being insulted with Latin and Greek at his own table ; for which reason he desired a particular friend of his at the university to find him out a clergyman rather of plain sense than much learning, of a good aspect, a clear voice, a sociable temper, and, if possible, a man that understood a little of back-gammon.
Сторінка 47 - I ascended the high hills of 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.
Сторінка 51 - What mean, said I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches. These, said the Genius, are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life.
Сторінка 52 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them; every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants.
Сторінка 52 - ... of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats ; but the genius told me there was no passage to them, except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge.
Сторінка 115 - Knowing that you was my old master's good friend, I could not forbear sending you the melancholy news of his death, which has afflicted the whole country, as well as his poor servants, who loved him, I may say, better than we did our lives. I am afraid he caught his death the last...
Сторінка 35 - I think never happened above once or twice at most, they appeal to me. At his first settling with me, I made him a present of all the good sermons which have been printed in English, and only begged of him that every Sunday he would pronounce one of them in the pulpit. Accordingly he has digested them into such a series, that they follow one another naturally, and make a continued system of practical divinity.
Сторінка 33 - This humanity and good nature engages everybody to him; so that when he is pleasant upon any of them, all his family are in good humour, and none so much as the person whom he diverts himself with: on the contrary, if he coughs, or betrays any infirmity of old age, it is easy for a stander-by to observe a secret concern in the looks of all his servants.
Сторінка 6 - ... who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed a whole 5 afternoon in the churchyard, the cloisters, and the church, amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else...
Сторінка 117 - He was buried, according to his own directions, among the family of the Coverleys, on the left hand of his father, Sir Arthur. The coffin was carried by six of his tenants, and the pall held up by six of the quorum : the whole parish followed the corpse with heavy hearts, and in their mourning suits, the men in frieze, and the women in riding-hoods.