The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection ; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works, Volume 1Lippincott, 1883 |
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Page xix
... thousands of breakfast tables . Swift boasted that he was never known to steal a hint : and he certainly owed as little to his predecessors as any modern writer . Yet we can- not help suspecting that he borrowed , perhaps unconsciously ...
... thousands of breakfast tables . Swift boasted that he was never known to steal a hint : and he certainly owed as little to his predecessors as any modern writer . Yet we can- not help suspecting that he borrowed , perhaps unconsciously ...
Page xx
... thousands and tens of thousands , all as well turned , as smooth , and as like each other as the blocks which have passed through Mr. Brunell's mill , in the dockyard at Portsmouth . Ben's heroic couplets resemble blocks rudely hewn out ...
... thousands and tens of thousands , all as well turned , as smooth , and as like each other as the blocks which have passed through Mr. Brunell's mill , in the dockyard at Portsmouth . Ben's heroic couplets resemble blocks rudely hewn out ...
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... thousand gentlemen at least , And each man mounted on his capering beast ; Into the Danube they were pushed by shoals . " Where to procure better verses the treasurer did not know . He understood how to negotiate a loan , or remit a ...
... thousand gentlemen at least , And each man mounted on his capering beast ; Into the Danube they were pushed by shoals . " Where to procure better verses the treasurer did not know . He understood how to negotiate a loan , or remit a ...
Page xxxvi
... thousands to flight by his single prowess , and dyeing the Boyne with Irish blood . Nay , so estimable a writer as John Philips , the author of the " Splendid Shil- ling , " represented Marlborough as having won the battle of Blenheim ...
... thousands to flight by his single prowess , and dyeing the Boyne with Irish blood . Nay , so estimable a writer as John Philips , the author of the " Splendid Shil- ling , " represented Marlborough as having won the battle of Blenheim ...
Page xl
... thousand tables before ten . A speech made on the Monday is read on the Wednesday by multitudes in Antrim and Aber- deenshire . The orator , by the help of the short - hand writer , has to a great extent superseded the pamphleteer . It ...
... thousand tables before ten . A speech made on the Monday is read on the Wednesday by multitudes in Antrim and Aber- deenshire . The orator , by the help of the short - hand writer , has to a great extent superseded the pamphleteer . It ...
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ABIGAL Addison admire Æneid appear arms beauty behold blood Boileau BUTLER Cæsar Cato Cato's charms COACHMAN conjurer dear death DECIUS dost thou drum English ev'ry eyes fame FANTOME fate father fear friends GARDENER genius give gods grace GRIDELINE grief hand hast hear heart heaven honour Jove JUBA KING LADY Lancelot Addison Latin live look Lord Lord Halifax lov'd LUCIA LUCIUS maid MARCIA MARCUS Marlborough mighty muse never numbers Numidian nymph o'er Ovid passion Pentheus pleasure poem poet Pope PORTIUS praise prince Prithee QUEEN rage rise Roman Rome Rosamond SCENE SEMPRONIUS shade shine SIR GEORGE Sir Richard Steele SIR TRUSTY soul speak Spectator Steele story sword SYPHAX Tatler tears tell thee thing thought thousand thunder Tickell TINSEL tories turn VELLUM verse Virgil virtue Voltaire whig Whilst words wou'd writing young youth
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Page 199 - Though in the paths of death I tread, With gloomy horrors overspread, My steadfast heart shall fear no ill, For Thou, O Lord, art with me still : Thy friendly crook shall give me aid, And guide me through the dreadful shade.
Page 411 - Rome fall a moment ere her time ? No, let us draw her term of freedom out In its full length, and spin it to the last, So shall we gain still one day's liberty: And let me perish, but, in Cato's judgment, A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Page 203 - What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball ; What though no real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found; In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.
Page 199 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 204 - How are thy Servants blest |"OW are Thy servants blest, O Lord ! How sure is their defence ! Eternal wisdom is their guide, Their help Omnipotence.
Page 454 - ... there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works) he must delight in virtue; And that which he delights in must be happy. But when ! or where ! — This world was made for Caesar.
Page 203 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page lv - The plan of the Spectator must be allowed to be both original and eminently happy. Every valuable essay in the series may be read with pleasure separately ; yet the five or six hundred essays form a whole, and a whole which has the interest of a novel. It must be remembered, too, that at that time no novel, giving a lively and powerful picture of the common life and manners of England, had appeared. Richardson was working as a compositor. Fielding was robbing birds
Page lv - We have not the least doubt that if Addison had written a novel on an extensive plan, it would have been superior to any that we possess. As it is, he is entitled to be considered not only as the greatest of the English essayists, but as the forerunner of the greatest English novelists.
Page xix - He is taller, by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court ; which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders.