Select Esays of Addison: Together with Macaulay's Essay on Addison's Life and WritingsAllyn and Bacon, 1894 - 320 страници |
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Addison admirers Æneid afterwards Ambrose Philips appeared beautiful called church consider conversation Coverley critics dæmon death delight discourse endeavor England English entertained essays friend Sir Roger genius gentleman Georgic give hand head hear heard heart Hilpa History honor house of Bourbon humor Iliad Isaac Bickerstaff kind king Knight lady Lancelot Addison learning letter lion literary live look Lord mankind manner master means mind morning nature never observed occasion paper particular party passed person pleased pleasure poet political Pope reader reason reign ridicule Roger de Coverley says Shalum side Sir Andrew Sir Richard Baker Sir Roger soul Spanish monarchy Spectator Steele Tatler tell thing thou thought Tickell tion Tirzah told took Tories town verses virtue Voltaire walk Whig Whig party whole words writers young
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Страница 319 - Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Страница 88 - Wisdom crieth without ; she uttereth her voice in the streets : she crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates : in the city she uttereth her words, saying, How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity ? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Страница 224 - 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 224 - HOW are thy servants blest, O Lord, How sure is their defence ! Eternal wisdom is their guide, Their help, omnipotence.
Страница 319 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise ; Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Страница 221 - 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.
Страница 32 - ... the country for that purpose, to instruct them rightly in the tunes of the Psalms; upon which they now very much value themselves, and indeed outdo most of the country churches that I have ever heard. As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself...
Страница 78 - Knowing that you was my old master's good friend, I could not forbear sending you the melancholy news of his death, which has afflicted the whole country, as well as his poor servants, who loved him, I may say, better than we did our lives. I am afraid he caught his death the last county-sessions, where he would go to see justice done to a poor widow woman, and her fatherless children, that had been wronged by a neighbouring gentleman ; for you know, sir, my good master was always the poor man's...
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 222 - When in the slippery paths of youth, With heedless steps, I ran ; Thine arm, unseen, conveyed me safe, And led me up to man.