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, Volumen1G.P. Putnam & Company, 1853 |
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... give you . Manners and customs he passes by as though they had no bearing upon the subject ; and leaves you to deal with proper names as if every body could be his own biographical dictionary . Still his notes are not without their ...
... give you . Manners and customs he passes by as though they had no bearing upon the subject ; and leaves you to deal with proper names as if every body could be his own biographical dictionary . Still his notes are not without their ...
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... give offence neither to his patrons in England , nor to those among whom he resided . Whatever his motives may have been , he turned his back on the most august and affecting ceremony which is known among men , and posted along the ...
... give offence neither to his patrons in England , nor to those among whom he resided . Whatever his motives may have been , he turned his back on the most august and affecting ceremony which is known among men , and posted along the ...
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... give deep disgust to the victorious general and his friends . Godolphin was not a reading man . Whatever time he could spare from business he was in the habit of spending at Newmarket or at the B card - table . But he was not absolutely ...
... give deep disgust to the victorious general and his friends . Godolphin was not a reading man . Whatever time he could spare from business he was in the habit of spending at Newmarket or at the B card - table . But he was not absolutely ...
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... give place to their opponents . At the close of 1707 the tories who still remained in office strove to rally , with Harley at their head . But the attempt , though favored by the queen , who had always been a tory at heart , and who had ...
... give place to their opponents . At the close of 1707 the tories who still remained in office strove to rally , with Harley at their head . But the attempt , though favored by the queen , who had always been a tory at heart , and who had ...
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... give it his assistance . The effect of that assistance cannot be better described than in Steele's own words . " I fared , ” he said , “ like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbor to his aid . I was undone by my auxiliary ...
... give it his assistance . The effect of that assistance cannot be better described than in Steele's own words . " I fared , ” he said , “ like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbor to his aid . I was undone by my auxiliary ...
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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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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.