AddisonMacmillan, 1919 - 197 pagina's |
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Pagina 1
... moral twist which distorted a nature by no means devoid of noble instincts . Johnson was fortunate in the companionship of perhaps the best biographer who ever lived . But of the real life and character of Addison scarcely any ...
... moral twist which distorted a nature by no means devoid of noble instincts . Johnson was fortunate in the companionship of perhaps the best biographer who ever lived . But of the real life and character of Addison scarcely any ...
Pagina 3
... morals , taste , and breeding , are operations of which the credit , though it is certainly to be ascribed to particular individuals , is generally absorbed by society itself . Macaulay's eulogy is as just as it is eloquent , but the ...
... morals , taste , and breeding , are operations of which the credit , though it is certainly to be ascribed to particular individuals , is generally absorbed by society itself . Macaulay's eulogy is as just as it is eloquent , but the ...
Pagina 6
... morality and discipline , and we thought they were susceptible of amend- ment without altering the ground . We thought they were capable of receiving and meliorating and , above all , of pre- serving the accessories of science and ...
... morality and discipline , and we thought they were susceptible of amend- ment without altering the ground . We thought they were capable of receiving and meliorating and , above all , of pre- serving the accessories of science and ...
Pagina 11
... moral system , the consequence of which was to encourage the powerful in the indulgence of every selfish instinct . As the Puritans had oppressed the country with a system of inhuman religion and transcendental morality , so now , in ...
... moral system , the consequence of which was to encourage the powerful in the indulgence of every selfish instinct . As the Puritans had oppressed the country with a system of inhuman religion and transcendental morality , so now , in ...
Pagina 15
... moral world , where it has no business , from which it must needs fall headlong ; as dizzy and incapable of making a stand as a Swedenborgian bad spirit that has wandered un- awares into his sphere of Good Men or Angels . But in its own ...
... moral world , where it has no business , from which it must needs fall headlong ; as dizzy and incapable of making a stand as a Swedenborgian bad spirit that has wandered un- awares into his sphere of Good Men or Angels . But in its own ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 129 - I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream...
Pagina 192 - 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 coffee-houses.
Pagina 143 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease...
Pagina 128 - Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.
Pagina 134 - 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 177 - He is now in his fifty-sixth year, cheerful, gay, and hearty; keeps a good house both in town and country; a great lover of mankind; but there is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour, that he is rather beloved than esteemed. His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
Pagina 78 - To Dr. Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age.
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 94 - I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
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...