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... lives a burden to the earth , but a good book is the precious life- blood of a master spirit , embalmed and treasured upon purpose to a life beyond life . ” 2 992 Addison's style , then , charms rather than im- presses the reader . It ...
... lives a burden to the earth , but a good book is the precious life- blood of a master spirit , embalmed and treasured upon purpose to a life beyond life . ” 2 992 Addison's style , then , charms rather than im- presses the reader . It ...
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... lives . Consider , that after all the pains you may be at , you can never arrive in point of learning to the perfection of a school boy . " • Addison certainly believed that he was giving to women a better position in society . In Clara ...
... lives . Consider , that after all the pains you may be at , you can never arrive in point of learning to the perfection of a school boy . " • Addison certainly believed that he was giving to women a better position in society . In Clara ...
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... live . in the latter ages of the world , to make observa- ( 1 ) Spectator , No. 69 ; Freeholder , No. 47 ; Spectator , No. 454 . ( 2 ) Tatler , No. 165 . ( 3 ) Le Public et les hommes de Lettres en Angleterre au Dix - huitième Siècle ...
... live . in the latter ages of the world , to make observa- ( 1 ) Spectator , No. 69 ; Freeholder , No. 47 ; Spectator , No. 454 . ( 2 ) Tatler , No. 165 . ( 3 ) Le Public et les hommes de Lettres en Angleterre au Dix - huitième Siècle ...
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... live and move , and have a being , for Addison could gain for them what the modern realist cannot always win for the children of his brain - the love and admiration of every reader . ( 1 ) On English and on Continental literature the ...
... live and move , and have a being , for Addison could gain for them what the modern realist cannot always win for the children of his brain - the love and admiration of every reader . ( 1 ) On English and on Continental literature the ...
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... Lives of the Poets . 1805. N. Drake . Essays , Biographical , Critical , and Histori- cal , illustrative of the Tatler , Spectator , and Guar- dian , three volumes . London , John Sharpe . 1820. J. Spence . Anecdotes , Observations ...
... Lives of the Poets . 1805. N. Drake . Essays , Biographical , Critical , and Histori- cal , illustrative of the Tatler , Spectator , and Guar- dian , three volumes . London , John Sharpe . 1820. J. Spence . Anecdotes , Observations ...
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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.