Selections from the Works of Joseph AddisonH. Holt, 1906 - 360 páginas |
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... called it , a " black wound . " Modern criticism has shown beyond ca- vil that Pope by his jealousy and malice is disquali- fied as a witness against Addison . No man of either party was so beloved . When the Whigs went down in ...
... called it , a " black wound . " Modern criticism has shown beyond ca- vil that Pope by his jealousy and malice is disquali- fied as a witness against Addison . No man of either party was so beloved . When the Whigs went down in ...
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... called in question . To use his favourite method of allegory , Satire is too frequently the child of Envy and Malevolence ; with Addison it was the offspring of Good Sense and Kindliness . There are two distinct moods in satire , the ...
... called in question . To use his favourite method of allegory , Satire is too frequently the child of Envy and Malevolence ; with Addison it was the offspring of Good Sense and Kindliness . There are two distinct moods in satire , the ...
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... called over the list of his 20 brethren . In the same manner , to remove effect- ually several worthless men who stand possessed of great honours , I have made frequent draughts of dead men out of the vicious part of the nobility , and ...
... called over the list of his 20 brethren . In the same manner , to remove effect- ually several worthless men who stand possessed of great honours , I have made frequent draughts of dead men out of the vicious part of the nobility , and ...
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... called into my memory the bags full of wind , which Homer tells us his hero received as a present from Æolus . The great heaps of gold , 10 on either side the throne , now appeared to be only heaps of paper , or little piles of notched ...
... called into my memory the bags full of wind , which Homer tells us his hero received as a present from Æolus . The great heaps of gold , 10 on either side the throne , now appeared to be only heaps of paper , or little piles of notched ...
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... right judgment of those who are the actors on it . There is another set of men that I must likewise lay a claim to , whom I have lately called the blanks of society , as being altogether unfurnished with ideas , THE SPECTATOR . 59.
... right judgment of those who are the actors on it . There is another set of men that I must likewise lay a claim to , whom I have lately called the blanks of society , as being altogether unfurnished with ideas , THE SPECTATOR . 59.
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Página 212 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Página 172 - ... them into the tide and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Página 337 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age, what would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?
Página 217 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Página 189 - 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...
Página 264 - The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. 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.
Página 158 - ... than blemish his good qualities. As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side : and every now and then inquires how...
Página xviii - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Página 219 - The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful...
Página 257 - They that go down to the sea in ships, That do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, And his wonders in the deep. For he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind, Which lifteth up the waves thereof.