Selections from Addison's Papers Contributed to the SpectatorClarendon Press, 1875 - 528 pages |
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... easy assurance , and his little airs of superiority . Yet of one or two of his letters the dialect is not so far antiquated but that we can still relish their racy flavour ; b of these the reader will find one or two specimens.
... easy assurance , and his little airs of superiority . Yet of one or two of his letters the dialect is not so far antiquated but that we can still relish their racy flavour ; b of these the reader will find one or two specimens.
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Joseph Addison Thomas Arnold. of these the reader will find one or two specimens in the present selection . ' The plan of the Spectator , so far as it regards the feigned person of the author , and of the several characters that compose ...
Joseph Addison Thomas Arnold. of these the reader will find one or two specimens in the present selection . ' The plan of the Spectator , so far as it regards the feigned person of the author , and of the several characters that compose ...
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... reader on the whole by its own merits , it will be vain to think of overcoming his repugnance to it by an elaborate argument . No one can feel a more unfeigned reluctance than the present editor to disturb the method and form in which ...
... reader on the whole by its own merits , it will be vain to think of overcoming his repugnance to it by an elaborate argument . No one can feel a more unfeigned reluctance than the present editor to disturb the method and form in which ...
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... reader's mind to the reverential observance of the following day . To the Fifth Part I have assigned a selection from those very numerous papers on manners , which , in the Spectator , as pre- viously in the Tatler , were the fruit of ...
... reader's mind to the reverential observance of the following day . To the Fifth Part I have assigned a selection from those very numerous papers on manners , which , in the Spectator , as pre- viously in the Tatler , were the fruit of ...
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... reader to learn that , whereas he claims that by taking the readings in brackets at the foot of his page , ' the text becomes throughout that of the Spectator as it first came wet from the press to English breakfast - tables , ' a ...
... reader to learn that , whereas he claims that by taking the readings in brackets at the foot of his page , ' the text becomes throughout that of the Spectator as it first came wet from the press to English breakfast - tables , ' a ...
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Page 210 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 467 - When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise.
Page 466 - 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 469 - Th' unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an almighty hand. 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...
Page 392 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus...
Page 347 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Page 86 - 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.
Page 27 - Change, the whole parish politics being generally discussed in that place either after sermon or before the bell rings. My friend Sir Roger, being a good churchman, has beautified the inside of his church with several texts of his own choosing; he has likewise given a handsome pulpit-cloth, and railed in the communion table at his own expense.
Page 5 - ... house both in town and country; a great lover of mankind; but there is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour, that he is rather beloved than esteemed. His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company. When he comes into a house he calls the servants by their names, and talks all the way up stairs to a visit.
Page 368 - 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!