Selections from the Writings of Joseph AddisonGinn, 1905 - 346 pages |
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... way , be sure you never take snuff , when you write . -Smith . Why so , Sir ? - Bays . Why , it spoil'd me once , egad , one of the sparkishest plays in all England . " > V against him . I have , since the INTRODUCTION XV.
... way , be sure you never take snuff , when you write . -Smith . Why so , Sir ? - Bays . Why , it spoil'd me once , egad , one of the sparkishest plays in all England . " > V against him . I have , since the INTRODUCTION XV.
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... never precisely civil . At best it is the habit of confidential chat , not of soci- ety . That Addison even in his own time was what he remains in tradition , far more of a personage than one might have expected from his rank , seems ...
... never precisely civil . At best it is the habit of confidential chat , not of soci- ety . That Addison even in his own time was what he remains in tradition , far more of a personage than one might have expected from his rank , seems ...
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... never have been the sort of good fellow with whom everybody feels instantly at ease . Such a temperament often gives rise to misunderstanding . Particularly when a shy man happens to be successful , he is often supposed to be far more ...
... never have been the sort of good fellow with whom everybody feels instantly at ease . Such a temperament often gives rise to misunderstanding . Particularly when a shy man happens to be successful , he is often supposed to be far more ...
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Joseph Addison Barrett Wendell, Chester Noyes Greenough. I never answer'd , I was not in debt : · · Peace to all such ! but were there One whose fires True Genius kindles , and fair Fame inspires , Blest with each Talent and each Art to ...
Joseph Addison Barrett Wendell, Chester Noyes Greenough. I never answer'd , I was not in debt : · · Peace to all such ! but were there One whose fires True Genius kindles , and fair Fame inspires , Blest with each Talent and each Art to ...
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... never read any but Dr. Trapp's.2 — 66 Ay , " said he , " that is a curious piece indeed ! " I then acquainted him with the discovery made by Mr. Warburton3 of the Eleusinian mysteries couched in his sixth book . " What mysteries ...
... never read any but Dr. Trapp's.2 — 66 Ay , " said he , " that is a curious piece indeed ! " I then acquainted him with the discovery made by Mr. Warburton3 of the Eleusinian mysteries couched in his sixth book . " What mysteries ...
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Page xviii - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 167 - Cast thy eyes eastward, said he, and tell me what thou seest. I see, said I, a huge valley, and a prodigious tide of water rolling through it. The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale of misery ; and the tide of water that thou seest, is part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason...
Page 173 - A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Page 25 - 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 26 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Page 329 - cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer, "why I could act as well as he myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Page 61 - But being ill-used by the above-mentioned widow, he was very serious for a year and a half ; and though, his temper being naturally jovial, he at last got over it, he grew careless of himself, and never dressed afterwards. He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that were in fashion at the time of his repulse...
Page 169 - Look no more, said he, on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it.
Page 58 - Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species...
Page 80 - ... though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy, and can therefore take a view of nature in her deep and solemn scenes with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones.