The Works of Joseph Addison: The SpectatorG.P. Putnam & Company, 1854 |
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... whole soul that remembers , understands , wills , or imagines . Our manner of considering the memory , understanding , will , imagination , and the like fac- " But what chiefly entitles the name of Addison to xiv SPECTATOR .
... whole soul that remembers , understands , wills , or imagines . Our manner of considering the memory , understanding , will , imagination , and the like fac- " But what chiefly entitles the name of Addison to xiv SPECTATOR .
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... consider how much I have seen , read , and heard , I begin to blame my own taciturnity ; and since I have neither time nor inclination to communicate the fulness of my heart in speech , I am resolved to do it in writing , and to print ...
... consider how much I have seen , read , and heard , I begin to blame my own taciturnity ; and since I have neither time nor inclination to communicate the fulness of my heart in speech , I am resolved to do it in writing , and to print ...
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... consider the poets after the conjurers , I shall give you a taste of the Italian , from the first lines of his preface : Eccoti , 1 In modern times , the new river has actually been used both at Covent Garden and in a suburban theatre ...
... consider the poets after the conjurers , I shall give you a taste of the Italian , from the first lines of his preface : Eccoti , 1 In modern times , the new river has actually been used both at Covent Garden and in a suburban theatre ...
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... consider myself , with some confusion , as a person that had brought a disaster upon the family . The lady , however , recov- ering herself , after a little space , said to her husband , with a sigh , ' My dear , misfortunes never come ...
... consider myself , with some confusion , as a person that had brought a disaster upon the family . The lady , however , recov- ering herself , after a little space , said to her husband , with a sigh , ' My dear , misfortunes never come ...
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... consider as my good brothers and allies , I mean the fraternity of Spectators , who live in the world without having any thing do in it ; and either by the affluence of their fortunes , or laziness of their dis- positions , have no ...
... consider as my good brothers and allies , I mean the fraternity of Spectators , who live in the world without having any thing do in it ; and either by the affluence of their fortunes , or laziness of their dis- positions , have no ...
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Page 82 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow...
Page 1 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Page 287 - ROGER'S family, because it consists of sober and staid persons; for as the knight is the best master in the world, he seldom changes his servants; and as he is beloved by all about him, his servants never care for leaving him. By this means his domestics are all in years, and grown old with their master. You would take his valet...
Page 382 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them; every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants.
Page 204 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung by some blind crowder with no rougher voice than rude style, which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?
Page 379 - Genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions with which I approached him. He lifted me from the ground, and taking me by the hand, 'Mirza,' said he, 'I have heard thee in thy soliloquies; follow me.
Page 301 - But can we believe a thinking being, that is in a perpetual progress of improvements, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness, wisdom, and power, must perish at her first setting out, and in the very beginning of her inquiries ?1 A man, considered in his present state, seems only sent into the world to propagate his kind.
Page 6 - Cocoa-tree, and in the theatres both of Drury-lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stockjobbers at Jonathan's.
Page 7 - I never espoused any party with violence, and am resolved to observe an exact neutrality between the Whigs and Tories, unless I shall be forced to declare myself by the hostilities of either side. In short, I have acted in all the parts of my life as a looker-on, which is the character I intend to preserve in this paper.
Page 7 - Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species...