Selections from the Writings of Joseph AddisonGinn, 1905 - 346 pages |
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Page xxi
... received a travelling pension of £ 300 . His later writings brought him public offices of which the emoluments fairly amounted to a fortune . While in this respect , too , his career was probably the most successful of his time , it was ...
... received a travelling pension of £ 300 . His later writings brought him public offices of which the emoluments fairly amounted to a fortune . While in this respect , too , his career was probably the most successful of his time , it was ...
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... receiving that list , vol . III was held over until it was too late to date it 1712 ; there is also to be considered the frequent practice of dating books ahead . But why vol . III should have been dated ahead or why it should have been ...
... receiving that list , vol . III was held over until it was too late to date it 1712 ; there is also to be considered the frequent practice of dating books ahead . But why vol . III should have been dated ahead or why it should have been ...
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... received from the several members of the learned world . He has a greater esteem for Aldus and Elzevir , than for Virgil and Horace . If you talk of Herodotus , he breaks out into a Panegyrick upon Harry Stephens . He thinks he gives ...
... received from the several members of the learned world . He has a greater esteem for Aldus and Elzevir , than for Virgil and Horace . If you talk of Herodotus , he breaks out into a Panegyrick upon Harry Stephens . He thinks he gives ...
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... received , that he might avoid wrangling , I told him , that Virgil possibly had his oversights as well as another Author . Ah ! Mr. Bickerstaffe , says he , you would have another opinion of him , if you would read him in Daniel ...
... received , that he might avoid wrangling , I told him , that Virgil possibly had his oversights as well as another Author . Ah ! Mr. Bickerstaffe , says he , you would have another opinion of him , if you would read him in Daniel ...
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... receiving of the Will : but opening it , he found himself disin- herited and cut off from the possession of a fair Estate , by virtue of my being made a present to him . This put him into such a passion , that after having taken me in ...
... receiving of the Will : but opening it , he found himself disin- herited and cut off from the possession of a fair Estate , by virtue of my being made a present to him . This put him into such a passion , that after having taken me in ...
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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.