Essays of Joseph AddisonMacmillan, 1882 - 377 страници |
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... readers had adapted themselves to this new mode of writing . The truth lies precisely the other way . In no department of human life does the law of supply and demand operate so powerfully as in literature . Writers and readers are not ...
... readers had adapted themselves to this new mode of writing . The truth lies precisely the other way . In no department of human life does the law of supply and demand operate so powerfully as in literature . Writers and readers are not ...
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... readers ; he will write so as best to be read . And thus it is that if we seek a key to this great literary change of the Age of the Revolution , we must look for it not in the writers of the Revo- lution so much as in the public for ...
... readers ; he will write so as best to be read . And thus it is that if we seek a key to this great literary change of the Age of the Revolution , we must look for it not in the writers of the Revo- lution so much as in the public for ...
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... readers . In groups such as Richardson sketches for us literature finds a new world opening before it , a world not of men only but of women , of wives and daughters as well as husbands and sons , a world not of the street or the study ...
... readers . In groups such as Richardson sketches for us literature finds a new world opening before it , a world not of men only but of women , of wives and daughters as well as husbands and sons , a world not of the street or the study ...
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... readers of to - day a sense of the grace and ease of the one , and of the indefinable sunshiny charm of the other . If selection is proper in the work of any great writer , it is proper in the work of Addison . Merely to gather what is ...
... readers of to - day a sense of the grace and ease of the one , and of the indefinable sunshiny charm of the other . If selection is proper in the work of any great writer , it is proper in the work of Addison . Merely to gather what is ...
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... readers will probably grant that in passing by papers of this sort I am only taking out of their path what are hindrances in any real appre- ciation of Addison . But these are far from being the most serious obstacles to an appreciation ...
... readers will probably grant that in passing by papers of this sort I am only taking out of their path what are hindrances in any real appre- ciation of Addison . But these are far from being the most serious obstacles to an appreciation ...
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acquaintance Addison Æneid appeared asked assembly beautiful Bickerstaffe called cat-call Censor church coffee-house colours conversation court discourse dress English F. T. PALGRAVE face fair sex fancy fashion female figure FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE friend Sir Roger gave gentleman give head hear heard heart HEIR OF REDCLYFFE Hilpa honest honour humour husband insomuch JOSEPH ADDISON kind king knight ladies learned letter likewise lion live looked manner matter ment mind Mohocks morning Muscovy nature never observed occasion paper particular passed periwig person petticoat pleased political present prosecutor readers reason Rechteren religion right hand Roger de Coverley says seemed Shalum side SIR NOEL PATON Sir Richard Baker Spectator stood surprise talk Tatler tell thou thought tion Tirzah told town turn walking Whig whole widow woman women word
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Страница 379 - THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF THE BEST SONGS AND LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE.
Страница xi - 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 Coffee-houses.
Страница 12 - 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. It is certain the country people would soon degenerate into a kind of savages and barbarians, were there not such frequent returns of a stated time, in which the whole village meet together with their best faces, and in their cleanliest habits, to converse with one another...
Страница 176 - 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 yet seest anything thou dost not comprehend." Upon looking up,
Страница 173 - As I looked upon him he applied it to his lips, and began to play upon it. The sound of it was exceeding sweet, and wrought into a variety of tunes that were inexpressibly melodious, and altogether different from any thing I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise, to wear out the impressions of their last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.
Страница 376 - The inscription is answerable to the monument; for instead of celebrating the many remarkable actions he had performed in the service of his country, it acquaints us only with the manner of his death, in which it was impossible for him to reap any honour.
Страница 174 - He then led me to the highest pinnacle of the rock, and placing me on the top of it, ' 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 a part of the great tide of eternity.
Страница 3 - 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 country-house, where I intend to form several of my ensuing speculations. Sir Roger...
Страница 173 - Mirza," which I have read over with great pleasure. I intend to give it to the public when I have no other entertainment for them; and shall begin with the first vision, which I have translated word for word as follows : — " On the fifth day of the moon, which according to the custom of my forefathers...
Страница 14 - ... reprimand to the person that is absent. The chaplain has often told me, that upon a catechising day, when sir Roger has been pleased with a boy that answers well, he has ordered a bible to be given him next day for his encouragement; and sometimes accompanies it with a flitch of bacon to his mother.