Selections from the Writings of Joseph AddisonGinn, 1905 - 346 pages |
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Page xlii
... beautiful in our language . In this Thackeray , than whom no English writer was ever more thoroughly a man of his time , deliberately endeavored to express himself in Addisonian manner . The result is full of charm ; yet in every page ...
... beautiful in our language . In this Thackeray , than whom no English writer was ever more thoroughly a man of his time , deliberately endeavored to express himself in Addisonian manner . The result is full of charm ; yet in every page ...
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... having interpreted it . They will look with contempt upon the most beautiful Poems that have been composed by any of their 30 Contemporaries ; but will lock themselves up in their studies 40 THE TATLER The same subject, continued.
... having interpreted it . They will look with contempt upon the most beautiful Poems that have been composed by any of their 30 Contemporaries ; but will lock themselves up in their studies 40 THE TATLER The same subject, continued.
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... lives in Soho - Square . It is said , he keeps himself a Bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful Widow of the next County to him . Before this disappointment , Sir ROGER was what you call 60 THE SPECTATOR.
... lives in Soho - Square . It is said , he keeps himself a Bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful Widow of the next County to him . Before this disappointment , Sir ROGER was what you call 60 THE SPECTATOR.
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... beautiful pieces in human nature , I shall endeavour to point out all those Imperfections that are the blemishes , as well as those Virtues which are the embellishments of the Sex . In the mean while I hope these my gentle readers , who ...
... beautiful pieces in human nature , I shall endeavour to point out all those Imperfections that are the blemishes , as well as those Virtues which are the embellishments of the Sex . In the mean while I hope these my gentle readers , who ...
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... beautiful festoons of sea - weed , shells , and coral . 20 25 But to return to our subject . I have left the repository of our English Kings for the contemplation of another day , when I shall find my mind disposed for so serious an ...
... beautiful festoons of sea - weed , shells , and coral . 20 25 But to return to our subject . I have left the repository of our English Kings for the contemplation of another day , when I shall find my mind disposed for so serious an ...
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Page xviii - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 167 - 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 part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason...
Page 173 - A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Page 25 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 26 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Page 329 - cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer, "why I could act as well as he myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Page 61 - But being ill-used by the above-mentioned widow, he was very serious for a year and a half ; and though, his temper being naturally jovial, he at last got over it, he grew careless of himself, and never dressed afterwards. He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that were in fashion at the time of his repulse...
Page 169 - Look no more, said he, on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it.
Page 58 - Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species...
Page 80 - ... though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy, and can therefore take a view of nature in her deep and solemn scenes with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones.