The Works of Joseph Addison: The SpectatorG. P. Putnam & Company, 1854 |
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... Adam is not Æneas , nor Eve , Helen . I shall therefore examine it by the rules of epic poetry , and ' see whether it falls short of the Iliad or Æneid , in the beauties which are essential to that kind of writing . The first thing to ...
... Adam is not Æneas , nor Eve , Helen . I shall therefore examine it by the rules of epic poetry , and ' see whether it falls short of the Iliad or Æneid , in the beauties which are essential to that kind of writing . The first thing to ...
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... Adam and Eve , before the fall , are a different species from that of mankind , who are descended from them ; and none but a poet of the most unbounded invention , and the most exquisite judgment , could have filled their conversation ...
... Adam and Eve , before the fall , are a different species from that of mankind , who are descended from them ; and none but a poet of the most unbounded invention , and the most exquisite judgment , could have filled their conversation ...
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... Adam and Eve : Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons , the fairest of her daughters Eve . It is plain , that in the former of these passages , according to the natural syntax , the divine persons mentioned in the first line ...
... Adam and Eve : Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons , the fairest of her daughters Eve . It is plain , that in the former of these passages , according to the natural syntax , the divine persons mentioned in the first line ...
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... Adam The great masters in composition know very well that many an elegant phrase becomes improper for a poet or an orator , when it has been debased by common use . For this reason the works of ancient authors , which are written in ...
... Adam The great masters in composition know very well that many an elegant phrase becomes improper for a poet or an orator , when it has been debased by common use . For this reason the works of ancient authors , which are written in ...
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... Adam and Eve sinking from a state of innocence and happiness , into the most abject condition of sin and sorrow . The most taking tragedies among the ancients were built on this last sort of implex fable , particularly the tragedy of ...
... Adam and Eve sinking from a state of innocence and happiness , into the most abject condition of sin and sorrow . The most taking tragedies among the ancients were built on this last sort of implex fable , particularly the tragedy of ...
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action Adam Adam and Eve Addison admired Æneas Æneid agreeable allegory ancient angels appear Aristotle beautiful behold character chearfulness circumstances colours consider conversation creation critics death delight described discourse discover divine DRYDEN earth endeavoured entertainment Enville fable fallen angels fame fancy filled give happy head heart heaven Homer ideas Iliad imagination infernal Jupiter kind ladies language likewise live look mankind manner Menippus Milton mind Mohocks morality nature never night noble observed occasion Ovid paper Paradise Lost particular passage passions perfection persons pleased pleasure poem poet poetry proper raise reader reason received represented ROSCOMMON Satan says secret sentiments shew sight Sir Roger soul Spectator speech spirit sublime take notice Tatler tells Thammuz thee thing thou thought tion told verse VIRG Virgil virtue whole words writing
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Página 440 - I die: * remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: * lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, "Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Página 649 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Página 447 - Repeats the story of her birth; 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. What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball; What though no real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found; In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.
Página 70 - 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 132 - Man-like, but different sex; so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the world seem'd now Mean, or in her summ'd up...
Página 154 - And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
Página 145 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Página 72 - Where joy for ever dwells! Hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time.
Página 326 - The pleasures of the imagination, taken in their full extent, are not so gross as those of sense, nor so refined as those of the understanding.
Página 324 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the same time it is very much straitened, and confined in its operations, to the number, bulk,...