Selections from the Writings of Joseph AddisonGinn, 1905 - 346 pages |
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... admired at the time as a model of classic elegance , and popular for political reasons , it nowadays seems very dull . In 1714 the Spectator1 was revived for a few months . Addi- son's subsequent writings are generally similar in ...
... admired at the time as a model of classic elegance , and popular for political reasons , it nowadays seems very dull . In 1714 the Spectator1 was revived for a few months . Addi- son's subsequent writings are generally similar in ...
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... admiring attention , somewhat akin to that attracted by athletic prowess . In Addison's time , too , this peculiarly civilized amusement had a certain patriotic value now long obsolete . On the Continent England was commonly thought ...
... admiring attention , somewhat akin to that attracted by athletic prowess . In Addison's time , too , this peculiarly civilized amusement had a certain patriotic value now long obsolete . On the Continent England was commonly thought ...
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... admiration it still commanded after the lapse of seventy years : Of a work so much read , it is difficult to say anything new . About things in which the public thinks long , it commonly attains to think right ; and of " Cato " it has ...
... admiration it still commanded after the lapse of seventy years : Of a work so much read , it is difficult to say anything new . About things in which the public thinks long , it commonly attains to think right ; and of " Cato " it has ...
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... admire , And from Britannia's publick posts retire , Nor longer , her ungrateful sons to please , For their advantage sacrifice your ease ; Me into foreign realms my fate conveys , Through nations fruitful of immortal lays , Where the ...
... admire , And from Britannia's publick posts retire , Nor longer , her ungrateful sons to please , For their advantage sacrifice your ease ; Me into foreign realms my fate conveys , Through nations fruitful of immortal lays , Where the ...
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... admire , That destitute of strength derives its course From thrifty urns and an unfruitful source ; Yet sung so often in poetick lays , With scorn the Danube and the Nile surveys ; So high the deathless Muse exalts her theme ! Such was ...
... admire , That destitute of strength derives its course From thrifty urns and an unfruitful source ; Yet sung so often in poetick lays , With scorn the Danube and the Nile surveys ; So high the deathless Muse exalts her theme ! Such was ...
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Page 74 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven, to inhabit among Men; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and in CoffeeHouses.
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 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 61 - His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
Page 333 - 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 64 - He is very ready at that sort of discourse with which men usually entertain women. He has all his life dressed very well, and remembers habits as others do men. He can smile when one speaks to him, and laughs easily. He knows the history of every mode...
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 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...