The Works of Joseph Addison: The SpectatorG.P. Putnam & Company, 1854 |
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... endeavour at the same end with himself , the favor of a commander . He will , however , in his way of talk , excuse generals for not dis- posing according to men's desert , or inquiring into it for , says he , that great man who has a ...
... endeavour at the same end with himself , the favor of a commander . He will , however , in his way of talk , excuse generals for not dis- posing according to men's desert , or inquiring into it for , says he , that great man who has a ...
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... endeavour to enliven morality with wit . and to temper wit with morality , that my readers may , if pos- sible , both ways find their account in the speculation of the day . And to the end that their virtue and discretion may not be ...
... endeavour to enliven morality with wit . and to temper wit with morality , that my readers may , if pos- sible , both ways find their account in the speculation of the day . And to the end that their virtue and discretion may not be ...
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... endeavour to make an innocent if not an improving entertainment , and by that means least divert the minds of my female readers from greater tri- fles . At the same time , as I would fain give some finishing touches to those which are ...
... endeavour to make an innocent if not an improving entertainment , and by that means least divert the minds of my female readers from greater tri- fles . At the same time , as I would fain give some finishing touches to those which are ...
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... endeavour to establish ourselves an interest in Him who holds the reins of the whole creation in his hand , and moderates them after such a manner , that it is impossible for one being to break loose upon another without his knowledge ...
... endeavour to establish ourselves an interest in Him who holds the reins of the whole creation in his hand , and moderates them after such a manner , that it is impossible for one being to break loose upon another without his knowledge ...
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... endeavour to expose ; and shall consider the crime as it appears in a species , not as it is circum- stanced in an individual . I think it was Caligula , who wished the whole city of Rome had but one neck , that he might behead them at ...
... endeavour to expose ; and shall consider the crime as it appears in a species , not as it is circum- stanced in an individual . I think it was Caligula , who wished the whole city of Rome had but one neck , that he might behead them at ...
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acquainted acrostics Addison admiration Æneid anagrams ancient appear Aristotle audience Avarice beautiful behaviour Ben Jonson body Boileau called Cicero club Coan wines conversation delight discourse dress DRYDEN endeavour English entertainment epigram false wit fancy figure filled French genius gentleman give Glaphyra hand heard heart hero honour Hudibras humour ingenious insomuch Italian John Simmonds kind of wit lady laugh learned letter likewise lion Little Britain live look lover manner means mind Mohocks nation nature never night observed occasion opera Ovid paper particular passion persons piece pleased poem poet reader reason rhymes ridicule ROSCOMMON says scenes sense shew short Sir Roger soul speak Spectator stage Tatler Telephus tell thing thou thought tion told tragedy Tryphiodorus verse VIRG Virgil virtue Whig whole woman women words writing
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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...