The Works of the English Poets: PrefacesH. Hughs, 1781 |
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Page 40
... hero , with all his virtues , was to fall before a tyrant . The fact is cer- tain ; the motives we must guess . Addifon was , I believe , fufficiently difpofed to bar Addi . 40 ADDISON . mean time gone to work himself, and ...
... hero , with all his virtues , was to fall before a tyrant . The fact is cer- tain ; the motives we must guess . Addifon was , I believe , fufficiently difpofed to bar Addi . 40 ADDISON . mean time gone to work himself, and ...
Page 41
... virtue . Addifon was frighted left he fhould be thought a promoter of infurrection , and the line was liquidated to Britons , attend . Now , heavily in clouds , came on the day , the great , the important day , when Addifon was to ftand ...
... virtue . Addifon was frighted left he fhould be thought a promoter of infurrection , and the line was liquidated to Britons , attend . Now , heavily in clouds , came on the day , the great , the important day , when Addifon was to ftand ...
Page 63
... virtue in the fentiments , or elegance in the language . He engaged in a nobler work , a de- fence of the Chriftian Religion , of which part was published after his death ; and he he defigned to have made a new poeti- cal verfion ...
... virtue in the fentiments , or elegance in the language . He engaged in a nobler work , a de- fence of the Chriftian Religion , of which part was published after his death ; and he he defigned to have made a new poeti- cal verfion ...
Page 76
... virtue it is a fufficient tefti- mony , that the refentment of party has tranfmitted no charge of any crime . He was not one of those who are praised only after death ; for his merit was fo fo generally acknowledged , that Swift ...
... virtue it is a fufficient tefti- mony , that the refentment of party has tranfmitted no charge of any crime . He was not one of those who are praised only after death ; for his merit was fo fo generally acknowledged , that Swift ...
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... virtue , do no more than praise it . Yet it is reasonable to believe that Addifon's profeffions and practice were at no great variance , fince , amidst that storm of faction in which most of his life was paffed , though his ftation made ...
... virtue , do no more than praise it . Yet it is reasonable to believe that Addifon's profeffions and practice were at no great variance , fince , amidst that storm of faction in which most of his life was paffed , though his ftation made ...
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Addifon afterwards againſt Arians becauſe beft Blackmore Cato caufe cenfure character compofitions confidered converfation criticiſm critick defign defire Dennis difcovered Dryden eafily Effay elegance faid fame fatire fays fecond feems feen felf fent fentiments feve fhall fhew fhewn fhort fhould fimile fince fingle firft firſt fome fometimes foon friends ftand ftile ftudies fubject fucceffion fuch fuffer fupplied fuppofed fure genius guards himſelf houſe inftruction intereft Juba Juba's kindneſs king laft laſt leaft lefs likewife lord lord chamberlain lord Halifax mafter Marcia moft moſt muft muſt nature neceffary never obferved occafion paffage paffion pafs perfon perhaps pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry Pope praife praiſe prefent preferve profe publick publiſhed purpoſe racter raiſed reader reafon ſcenes ſeems Sempronius Spectator Spence ſtage Steele Syphax Tatler thefe theſe thofe thoſe thought Tickell tion topicks tragedy tranflated uncon uſed verfes verfion verſe Whig whofe write
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Page 155 - He copies life with so much fidelity that he can be hardly said to invent : yet his exhibitions have an air so much original that it is difficult to suppose them not merely the product of imagination.
Page 82 - was particular in this writer, that when he had taken his resolution or made his plan for what he designed to write, he would walk about a room and dictate it into language with as much freedom and ease as any one could write it down, and attend to the coherence and grammar of what he dictated.
Page 90 - No greater felicity can genius attain, than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth from indecency, and wit from licentiousness; of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness; and, if I may use expressions yet more awful, of having turned many to righteousness.
Page 75 - He taught us how to live; and, oh! too high The price of knowledge, taught us how to die.
Page 156 - As a teacher of wisdom, he may be confidently followed. His religion has nothing in it enthusiastic or superstitious: he appears neither weakly credulous, nor wantonly sceptical; his morality is neither dangerously lax, nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument, are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being.
Page 149 - It is not uncommon for those who have grown wise by the labour of others to add a little of their own, and overlook their masters. Addison is now despised by some who perhaps would never have seen his defects but by the lights which he afforded them.
Page 150 - That general knowledge which now circulates in common talk was in his time rarely to be found. Men not professing learning were not ashamed of ignorance, and in the female world any acquaintance with books was distinguished only to be censured.
Page 157 - ... always equable, and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected splendour.
Page 68 - ... reign ; an act of authority violent enough, yet certainly legal, and by no means to be compared with that contempt of national right with •which, some time afterwards, by the instigation of whiggism, the commons, chosen by the people for three years, chose themselves for seven.
Page 61 - The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness ; it neither found them nor made them equal. She always remembered her own rank, and thought herself entitled to treat with very little ceremony the tutor of her son.