Select Essays of Addison: Together with Macaulay's Essay on Addison's Life and WritingsAllyn and Bacon, 1893 - 320 страници |
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... consider how much I have seen , read , and heard , I begin to blame my own taciturnity ; and since I have neither time . nor inclination to communicate the fulness of my heart in speech , I am resolved to do it in writing , and to print ...
... consider how much I have seen , read , and heard , I begin to blame my own taciturnity ; and since I have neither time . nor inclination to communicate the fulness of my heart in speech , I am resolved to do it in writing , and to print ...
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... consider , with a great deal of concern , how so good an heart and such busy hands were wholly employed in trifles ; that so much humanity should be so little beneficial to others , and so much industry so little advantageous to himself ...
... consider , with a great deal of concern , how so good an heart and such busy hands were wholly employed in trifles ; that so much humanity should be so little beneficial to others , and so much industry so little advantageous to himself ...
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... consider the force of dress , and how the persons of one age differ from those of another merely by that only . One may observe , also , that the general fashion of one age has been followed by one particular set of people in another ...
... consider the force of dress , and how the persons of one age differ from those of another merely by that only . One may observe , also , that the general fashion of one age has been followed by one particular set of people in another ...
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... consider as a kind of natural prayer to that Being who supplies the wants of his whole creation , and who , in the beautiful language of the Psalms , feedeth the young ravens that call upon him . I like this retirement the better ...
... consider as a kind of natural prayer to that Being who supplies the wants of his whole creation , and who , in the beautiful language of the Psalms , feedeth the young ravens that call upon him . I like this retirement the better ...
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... consider the subject of witchcraft . When I hear the relations that are made from all parts of the world , not only from Norway and Lap- land , from the East and West Indies , but from every par- ticular nation in Europe , I cannot ...
... consider the subject of witchcraft . When I hear the relations that are made from all parts of the world , not only from Norway and Lap- land , from the East and West Indies , but from every par- ticular nation in Europe , I cannot ...
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Страница 224 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The Moon takes up the wondrous tale; And nightly, to the listening 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.
Страница 50 - The court was sat before Sir Roger came ; but notwithstanding all the justices had taken their places upon the bench, they made room for the old Knight at the head of them; who for his reputation in the country took occasion to whisper in the judge's ear, " That he was glad his lordship had met with so much good weather in his circuit.
Страница 2 - Whether this might proceed from a law-suit which was then depending in the family, or my father's being a justice of the peace, I cannot determine; for I am not so vain as to think it presaged any dignity that I should arrive at in my future life, though that was the interpretation which the neighborhood put upon it.
Страница 161 - I observed some with scimitars in their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trapdoors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped had they not been thus forced upon them. The genius seeing me indulge myself in this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it. " Take thine eyes off the bridge," said he, " and tell me if thou seest anything thou dost not comprehend." Upon looking up, "What mean...
Страница 18 - My chief companion, when Sir Roger is diverting himself in the woods or the fields, is a very venerable man who is ever with Sir Roger, and has lived at his house in the nature of a chaplain above thirty years. This gentleman is a person of good sense and some learning, of a very regular life and obliging conversation...
Страница 102 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Страница 200 - IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy, would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.
Страница xix - What he attempted, he performed : he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ;* he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude nor affected brevity; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentations, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Страница 17 - HAVING often received an invitation from my friend Sir Roger de Coverley, to pass away a month with him in the country, I last week accompanied him thither, and am settled with him for some time at his countryhouse, where I intend to form several of my ensuing speculations. Sir Roger, who is very well acquainted with my humour, lets me rise and go to bed when I please, dine at his own table or in my chamber as I think fit, sit still and say nothing without bidding me be merry. When the gentlemen...
Страница 31 - I AM always very well pleased with a country Sunday ; and think, if keeping holy the seventh day were only a human institution, it would be the best method that could have been thought of for the polishing and civilizing of mankind.