Essays of Joseph AddisonMacmillan, 1882 - 377 pages |
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Page viii
... woman filled even a woman's part on the boards , nor could a decent woman appear in a theatre without a mask . the great uprooting of every political , social , and religious belief in the Civil Wars left this conception of literature ...
... woman filled even a woman's part on the boards , nor could a decent woman appear in a theatre without a mask . the great uprooting of every political , social , and religious belief in the Civil Wars left this conception of literature ...
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... woman . And it told as quickly on her relations to literature . It is now that , shyly and sporadically , and sometimes under odd forms , we hear of women as writers ; of the Duchess of Newcastle , of Aphra Behn , of Mrs. Hutchinson ...
... woman . And it told as quickly on her relations to literature . It is now that , shyly and sporadically , and sometimes under odd forms , we hear of women as writers ; of the Duchess of Newcastle , of Aphra Behn , of Mrs. Hutchinson ...
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... Woman on Horseback VARIOUS ESSAYS Omens Lady Orators Adventures of a Shilling Husbands and Wives Religions in Waxwork A Friend of Mankind Demurrers in Love . Sir Timothy Tittle Frozen Words . The Tall Club Advice in Love • • Thoughts in ...
... Woman on Horseback VARIOUS ESSAYS Omens Lady Orators Adventures of a Shilling Husbands and Wives Religions in Waxwork A Friend of Mankind Demurrers in Love . Sir Timothy Tittle Frozen Words . The Tall Club Advice in Love • • Thoughts in ...
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... woman applied herself to me for my charity . Her dress and figure put me in mind of the following description in Otway : In a close lane , as I pursued my journey , I spied a wrinkled hag , with age grown double , Picking dry sticks ...
... woman applied herself to me for my charity . Her dress and figure put me in mind of the following description in Otway : In a close lane , as I pursued my journey , I spied a wrinkled hag , with age grown double , Picking dry sticks ...
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... cat . I was secretly concerned to see human nature in so much wretchedness and disgrace , but at the same time could not forbear smiling to hear Sir Roger , who is a little puzzled about the old woman , advising 18 SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY .
... cat . I was secretly concerned to see human nature in so much wretchedness and disgrace , but at the same time could not forbear smiling to hear Sir Roger , who is a little puzzled about the old woman , advising 18 SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY .
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acquaintance Addison Æneid agreeable appeared asked assembly beautiful behaviour Bickerstaffe called Censor church coffee-house Coleshill Heath colours conversation discourse dress face fair sex fancy fashion fell female figure friend Sir gave gentleman give good-breeding grin head head-dress hear heard heart Hilpa humour indicted insomuch Isaac Bickerstaffe jury justice kind king ladies letter likewise live looked manner marriage matter Middle Temple mind Mohocks morning nature never night observed occasion Ovid paper particular passed periwig person petticoat pleased political present prosecutor reader reason Rechteren religion Richard Newman right hand Roger de Coverley says seemed Shalum short side sight Sir Harry Sir Roger soon Spectator squire stone weight stood surprised talk tell thou thought Tirzah told town trained bands walk Warwickshire weight Whig whole woman women word Zilpah
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Page xiii - 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.
Page 14 - 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...
Page 178 - 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,
Page 176 - 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.
Page 175 - 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.
Page 53 - PS My master desired, some weeks before he died, that a book, which comes up to you by the carrier, should be given to Sir Andrew Freeport, in his name. This letter, notwithstanding the poor butler's manner of writing it, gave us such an idea of our good old friend that upon the reading of it there was not a dry eye in the club. Sir Andrew, opening the book, found it to be a collection of acts of parliament. There was in particular the Act of Uniformity, with some passages in it marked by Sir Roger's...
Page 5 - 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...
Page 175 - 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...
Page 16 - ... 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.
Page 290 - Not to be tedious, there is scarce any emotion in the mind which does not produce a suitable agitation in the fan ; insomuch that, if I only see the fan of a disciplined lady, I know very well whether she laughs, frowns, or blushes. I have seen a fan so very angry, that it would have been dangerous for the absent lover who provoked it to have come within the wind of it ; and at other times so very languishing, that I have been glad, for the lady's sake, the lover was at a sufficient distance from...