Selections from the Works of Joseph AddisonH. Holt, 1906 - 360 pages |
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... thought , and there- fore they should be of value to the teacher . The original sheets of the Freeholder are rare . They are not to be found in the British Museum nor in the Bodleian ; the Yale library has the first twenty issues only ...
... thought , and there- fore they should be of value to the teacher . The original sheets of the Freeholder are rare . They are not to be found in the British Museum nor in the Bodleian ; the Yale library has the first twenty issues only ...
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... thought . too severe when in a letter to Horace Walpole he declared that Addison had not " above three or four notes in poetry , sweet enough indeed , like those of a German flute , but such as soon tire and satiate the ear with their ...
... thought . too severe when in a letter to Horace Walpole he declared that Addison had not " above three or four notes in poetry , sweet enough indeed , like those of a German flute , but such as soon tire and satiate the ear with their ...
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... thought rarely condenses in some weighty sen tence that by its sheer power seizes the mind of the reader . Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries . A marriage of love is pleasant ; a marriage of interest easy ; and a ...
... thought rarely condenses in some weighty sen tence that by its sheer power seizes the mind of the reader . Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries . A marriage of love is pleasant ; a marriage of interest easy ; and a ...
Page xix
... thought in which we al- ways find him , and the attractive countenance , if you will allow me the expression , with which he meets me upon every occasion . " 1 With all his care in writing , the contents of the essays were of supreme ...
... thought in which we al- ways find him , and the attractive countenance , if you will allow me the expression , with which he meets me upon every occasion . " 1 With all his care in writing , the contents of the essays were of supreme ...
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... thoughts and actions . The mod- ern realist tells his story , and leaves the reader to infer the moral , if indeed ... thought of his times . We admire a reformer on the condition that he leaves us alone , but sets in order the house ...
... thoughts and actions . The mod- ern realist tells his story , and leaves the reader to infer the moral , if indeed ... thought of his times . We admire a reformer on the condition that he leaves us alone , but sets in order the house ...
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Page 212 - 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 172 - ... 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 337 - 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 217 - 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 189 - 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 264 - 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 158 - ... 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 219 - The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful...
Page 257 - 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.