AddisonHarper & Brothers, 1886 - 182 pagina's |
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... literature and society of his country . In one generation after another , men representing oppos- ing elements of rank , class , interest , and taste , have agreed in acknowledging Addison's extraordinary merits . " Who- 66 ever wishes ...
... literature and society of his country . In one generation after another , men representing oppos- ing elements of rank , class , interest , and taste , have agreed in acknowledging Addison's extraordinary merits . " Who- 66 ever wishes ...
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... literature as the order of Providence should successively produce them . And after all , with this Gothic and monkish educa- tion ( for such it is the groundwork ) , we may put in our claim to as ample and early a share in all the ...
... literature as the order of Providence should successively produce them . And after all , with this Gothic and monkish educa- tion ( for such it is the groundwork ) , we may put in our claim to as ample and early a share in all the ...
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... literature which have illuminated the modern world as any other nation in Europe . We think one main cause of this improve- ment was our not despising the patrimony of knowledge which was left us by our forefathers . " All this is , in ...
... literature which have illuminated the modern world as any other nation in Europe . We think one main cause of this improve- ment was our not despising the patrimony of knowledge which was left us by our forefathers . " All this is , in ...
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... literature . It is his praise to have ac- complished his task under conditions far more difficult than any that his predecessors had experienced . What they had done was to give instinctive and characteristic expression to the floating ...
... literature . It is his praise to have ac- complished his task under conditions far more difficult than any that his predecessors had experienced . What they had done was to give instinctive and characteristic expression to the floating ...
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... literature . Before them English prose had been em- ployed , no doubt , with music and majesty by many writers ; but the style of these is scarcely representative ; they had used the language for their own elevated purposes , without ...
... literature . Before them English prose had been em- ployed , no doubt , with music and majesty by many writers ; but the style of these is scarcely representative ; they had used the language for their own elevated purposes , without ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 65 - 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 past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
Pagina 128 - While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise— Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying all abroad?
Pagina 120 - 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.
Pagina 75 - To Dr. Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age.
Pagina 182 - 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 coffeehouses.
Pagina 3 - Shalum, just finished for the next day's Spectator, in his hand. Such a mark of national respect was due to the unsullied statesman, to the accomplished scholar, to the master of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners. It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule without abusing it, who, without inflicting a wound, effected a great social reform, and who reconciled wit and virtue, after a long and disastrous separation, during which...
Pagina 3 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Pagina 152 - Can I forget the dismal night that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave? How silent did his old companions tread, By midnight lamps, the mansions of the dead, Through breathing statues, then unheeded things, Through rows of warriors and through walks of kings...
Pagina 64 - And taught the dreadful 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 past — Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Pagina 172 - It is not uncommon for those who have grown wise by the labour of others to add a little of their own, and overlook their masters. Addison is now despised by some who perhaps would never have seen his defects but by the lights which he afforded them.