Essays on Milton and AddisonBenj. H. Sanborn & Company, 1902 - 315 pages |
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... Spectator , which may well be chosen from those mentioned by Ma- caulay in his essay on Addison . V. G. O. Trevelyan . BIBLIOGRAPHY . BIOGRAPHICAL . Life of Macaulay . 2 vols . ( E. M. L. ) J. C. Morrison . Life of Macaulay . Dictionary ...
... Spectator , which may well be chosen from those mentioned by Ma- caulay in his essay on Addison . V. G. O. Trevelyan . BIBLIOGRAPHY . BIOGRAPHICAL . Life of Macaulay . 2 vols . ( E. M. L. ) J. C. Morrison . Life of Macaulay . Dictionary ...
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... Spectator and the Guard- ian traces of the influence , in part salutary and in part pernicious , which the mind of Boileau had on the mind of Addison . 15 34. While Addison was at Paris , an event took place which made that capital a ...
... Spectator and the Guard- ian traces of the influence , in part salutary and in part pernicious , which the mind of Boileau had on the mind of Addison . 15 34. While Addison was at Paris , an event took place which made that capital a ...
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... Spectator . After some days of discomfort and danger , Addison was glad to land at Savona , and to make his way , over mountains where no road had yet been hewn out by art , to the city of Genoa . 15 36. At Genoa , still ruled by her ...
... Spectator . After some days of discomfort and danger , Addison was glad to land at Savona , and to make his way , over mountains where no road had yet been hewn out by art , to the city of Genoa . 15 36. At Genoa , still ruled by her ...
Page 174
... Spectator's dialogue with the politician who is so 10 zealous for the honor of Lady Q - p - t - s , are excellent specimens of this innocent mischief . 65. Such were Addison's talents for conversa- tion . But his rare gifts were not ...
... Spectator's dialogue with the politician who is so 10 zealous for the honor of Lady Q - p - t - s , are excellent specimens of this innocent mischief . 65. Such were Addison's talents for conversa- tion . But his rare gifts were not ...
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... Spectators were equalled in their own kind , we should be inclined to guess that it must have been by the lost comedies of Menander . 82. In wit , properly so called , Addison was THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ADDISON . 187.
... Spectators were equalled in their own kind , we should be inclined to guess that it must have been by the lost comedies of Menander . 82. In wit , properly so called , Addison was THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ADDISON . 187.
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Page 79 - Puritan was made up of two different men ; the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker, but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Page 289 - 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...
Page 81 - Such we believe to have been the character of the Puritans. We perceive the absurdity of their manners. We dislike the sullen gloom of their domestic habits. We acknowledge that the tone of their minds was often injured by straining after things too high for mortal reach ; and we know that, in spite of their hatred of popery, they too often fell into the worst vices of that bad system, intolerance and extravagant austerity, that they had their anchorites and their crusades, their Dunstans and their...
Page 93 - But there are a few characters which have stood the closest scrutiny and the severest tests, which have been tried in the furnace and have proved pure, which have been weighed in the balance and have not been found wanting, which have been declared sterling by the general consent of mankind, and which are visibly stamped with the image and superscription of the Most High. These great men we trust that we know how to prize; and of these was Milton.
Page 80 - These fanatics brought to civil and military affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of purpose which some writers have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal, but which were in fact the necessary effects of it. The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost its terrors and pleasure its charms. They had their smiles and their tears, their raptures...
Page 63 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
Page 78 - ... themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged, on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined before heaven and earth were created to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should...
Page 88 - ... be emancipated from the dominion of prejudice as well as from that of Charles. He knew that those who, with the best intentions, overlooked these schemes of reform, and contented themselves with pulling down the King and imprisoning the...
Page 77 - The difference between the greatest and the meanest of mankind seemed to vanish, when compared with the boundless interval which separated the whole race from Him on whom their own eyes were constantly fixed.
Page 78 - On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt; for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.