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... believe that the Tatler came to an end because the editor was gravelled for lack of matter . Swift ill - naturedly expressed no surprise , charged Steele with laziness , and de- clared that the last Tatlers had been " cruel dull and dry ...
... believe that the Tatler came to an end because the editor was gravelled for lack of matter . Swift ill - naturedly expressed no surprise , charged Steele with laziness , and de- clared that the last Tatlers had been " cruel dull and dry ...
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... believe that the new paper would excel the old , and no writer had as yet appeared who could seriously rival the felicitous combination of Addison and Steele . Their contributions were of nearly equal extent ; out of five hundred and ...
... believe that the new paper would excel the old , and no writer had as yet appeared who could seriously rival the felicitous combination of Addison and Steele . Their contributions were of nearly equal extent ; out of five hundred and ...
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... believe and take for granted , nor to find talk and discourse , but to weigh and con- sider . Some books are to be tasted , others to be swallowed , and some few to be chewed and digested : that is some books are to be read only in ...
... believe and take for granted , nor to find talk and discourse , but to weigh and con- sider . Some books are to be tasted , others to be swallowed , and some few to be chewed and digested : that is some books are to be read only in ...
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... in me so early is a hard question . I believe I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such 1 Odes , III . xxix . 41 . chimes of verse as have never since left ringing there 6 ENGLISH ESSAYS .
... in me so early is a hard question . I believe I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such 1 Odes , III . xxix . 41 . chimes of verse as have never since left ringing there 6 ENGLISH ESSAYS .
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... believe in a future state of life , a place for the rewards of good men and for the punishment of the haters of virtue , how few of heroes and famous men crowd in among the last ! How few crowned heads wear the crowns of immortal ...
... believe in a future state of life , a place for the rewards of good men and for the punishment of the haters of virtue , how few of heroes and famous men crowd in among the last ! How few crowned heads wear the crowns of immortal ...
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Page 3 - Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man ; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit ; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtile ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend...
Page 3 - Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Page 3 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. That is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 29 - With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike : Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 41 - 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.
Page 75 - I here fetched a deep sigh. Alas, said I, man was made in vain ! how is he given away to misery and mortality ! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death ! The genius being moved with compassion towards me, bade me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. Look no more...
Page 40 - ... a gentleman of Worcestershire, of ancient descent, a baronet, his name Sir Roger de Coverley. His great-grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance which is called after him. All who know that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger. He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world, only as he thinks the world is in the wrong.
Page 234 - Then I told how for seven long years, in hope sometimes, sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n ; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty, and denial meant in maidens — when suddenly, turning to Alice, the soul of the first Alice looked out at her eyes with such a reality of re-presentment, that I became in doubt which of them stood there before me, or whose that bright hair was...
Page 74 - ... is the vale of misery, and the tide of water that thou seest is part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other? What thou seest...
Page 211 - The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be : The Devil grew well, the devil a monk was he...