Selections from the Works of Joseph AddisonH. Holt, 1906 - 360 pages |
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... person without depressing another , " and in that sentence , Steele unconsciously foretold his own fate . He has been used so often as the foil for Addison's personal and literary virtues , that to compare the two writers seems an ...
... person without depressing another , " and in that sentence , Steele unconsciously foretold his own fate . He has been used so often as the foil for Addison's personal and literary virtues , that to compare the two writers seems an ...
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... person , when his body is mixed with the common mass of matter , and his soul retired into the world of spirits . Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind , which are delivered down from generation to gen- eration ...
... person , when his body is mixed with the common mass of matter , and his soul retired into the world of spirits . Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind , which are delivered down from generation to gen- eration ...
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... person of taste ; the substance of its papers so often consisting in the statement of improbable circum- stances , unnatural characters , and topics of conver- sation , which no longer concern any one living , and their language too ...
... person of taste ; the substance of its papers so often consisting in the statement of improbable circum- stances , unnatural characters , and topics of conver- sation , which no longer concern any one living , and their language too ...
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... persons to whom we join ourselves can stand an examination , and bear the scrutiny , when they mend upon our acquaint- ance with them , when they discover new beauties the more we search into their characters , our love will naturally ...
... persons to whom we join ourselves can stand an examination , and bear the scrutiny , when they mend upon our acquaint- ance with them , when they discover new beauties the more we search into their characters , our love will naturally ...
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... person , an upholsterer , who seemed a man of more than ordinary application to business . He was a very early riser , and was often 5 abroad two or three hours before any of his neigh- bours . He had a particular carefulness in the ...
... person , an upholsterer , who seemed a man of more than ordinary application to business . He was a very early riser , and was often 5 abroad two or three hours before any of his neigh- bours . He had a particular carefulness in the ...
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Page 206 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Page 81 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow...
Page 170 - ... them into the tide and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Page 331 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age, what would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?
Page 211 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 185 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar...
Page 258 - The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 156 - ... than blemish his good qualities. As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side : and every now and then inquires how...
Page xviii - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Page 251 - They that go down to the sea in ships, That do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, And his wonders in the deep. For he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind, Which lifteth up the waves thereof.