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, Том 1G.P. Putnam & Company, 1853 |
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... natural that literary and oratori- cal talents should rise in value . There was danger that a government which neglected such talents might be subverted by them . It was , therefore , a profound and enlightened policy which led Montagu ...
... natural that literary and oratori- cal talents should rise in value . There was danger that a government which neglected such talents might be subverted by them . It was , therefore , a profound and enlightened policy which led Montagu ...
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... nature ; but , strange to say , their existence was a secret even to artists and antiquaries . Though situated within a few hours ' journey of a great capital , where Salvator had not long before painted , and where Vico was then ...
... nature ; but , strange to say , their existence was a secret even to artists and antiquaries . Though situated within a few hours ' journey of a great capital , where Salvator had not long before painted , and where Vico was then ...
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... nature nor those of art could so occupy his attention as to prevent him from noticing , though cursorily , the abuses of the government and the misery of the people . The great kingdom which had just descended to Philip V. was in a ...
... nature nor those of art could so occupy his attention as to prevent him from noticing , though cursorily , the abuses of the government and the misery of the people . The great kingdom which had just descended to Philip V. was in a ...
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... nature made his wit and eloquence useless in debate . He once rose , but could not overcome his diffidence , and ever after remained silent . Nobody can think it strange that a great writer should fail as a speaker . But many , probably ...
... nature made his wit and eloquence useless in debate . He once rose , but could not overcome his diffidence , and ever after remained silent . Nobody can think it strange that a great writer should fail as a speaker . But many , probably ...
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... nature , we must ascribe another fault which generally arises from a very different cause . became a little too fond of seeing himself surrounded by a small circle of admirers , to whom he was as a king or rather as a god . All these ...
... nature , we must ascribe another fault which generally arises from a very different cause . became a little too fond of seeing himself surrounded by a small circle of admirers , to whom he was as a king or rather as a god . All these ...
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ABIGAL Addison admire Æneid appear arms beauty behold better 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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Страница 195 - 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 Though in a bare and rugged way, Through devious lonely wilds I stray.
Страница 380 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Страница 128 - ... for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Страница 448 - Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass ? The wide, th' unbounded prospect lies before me; But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it.
Страница 448 - ... 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.
Страница liii - 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
Страница 199 - 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 368 - The numerous and violent claps of the whig party on the one side of the theatre, were echoed back by the tories on the other; while the author sweated behind the scenes with concern to find their applause proceeding more from the hand than the head.
Страница 183 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Страница 200 - Think, O my soul, devoutly think, How, with affrighted eyes, Thou saw'st the wide extended deep In all its horrors rise ! Confusion dwelt in every face, And fear in every heart: When waves on waves, and gulfs on gulfs, O'ercame the pilot's art.