Selections from Addison's Papers in the Spectator: Essay on "Addison,"Estes and Lauriat, 1879 - 235 pages |
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... raised in every quarter of that ancient fabric . Some of them were covered with such extravagant epitaphs , that if it were possible for the dead person to be acquainted with them , he would blush at the praises which his friends have ...
... raised in every quarter of that ancient fabric . Some of them were covered with such extravagant epitaphs , that if it were possible for the dead person to be acquainted with them , he would blush at the praises which his friends have ...
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... English kings for the contemplation of another day , when I shall find my mind disposed for so serious an amusement . I know that entertain- ments of this nature are apt to raise dark and 8 [ No. 26 . VISIT TO WESTMINSTER ABBEY .
... English kings for the contemplation of another day , when I shall find my mind disposed for so serious an amusement . I know that entertain- ments of this nature are apt to raise dark and 8 [ No. 26 . VISIT TO WESTMINSTER ABBEY .
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... raise dark and dis- mal thoughts in timorous minds , and gloomy imag- inations ; but for my own part , though I am always serious , I do not know what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view of nature , in her deep and ...
... raise dark and dis- mal thoughts in timorous minds , and gloomy imag- inations ; but for my own part , though I am always serious , I do not know what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view of nature , in her deep and ...
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... raise the mind to poetry , painting , music , or other more noble arts , it often breaks out in puns and quibbles . Aristotle , in the eleventh chapter of his book of rhetoric , describes two or three kinds of puns , which he calls ...
... raise the mind to poetry , painting , music , or other more noble arts , it often breaks out in puns and quibbles . Aristotle , in the eleventh chapter of his book of rhetoric , describes two or three kinds of puns , which he calls ...
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... raising estates for their own families , by bringing into their country whatever is wanting , and carrying out of it whatever is superfluous . Nature seems to have taken a particular care to disseminate her blessings among the different ...
... raising estates for their own families , by bringing into their country whatever is wanting , and carrying out of it whatever is superfluous . Nature seems to have taken a particular care to disseminate her blessings among the different ...
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Page 34 - As I was walking with him last night, he asked me how I liked the good man whom I have just now mentioned ? and without staying for my answer told me. that he was afraid of being insulted with Latin and Greek at his own table ; for which reason he desired a particular friend of his at the university to find him out a clergyman rather of plain sense than much learning, of a good aspect, a clear voice, a sociable temper, and, if possible, a man that understood a little of back-gammon.
Page 47 - I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, ' Surely,' said I, ' man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Page 51 - What mean, said I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches. These, said the Genius, are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life.
Page 52 - 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 52 - ... of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats ; but the genius told me there was no passage to them, except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge.
Page 115 - Knowing that you was my old master's good friend, I could not forbear sending you the melancholy news of his death, which has afflicted the whole country, as well as his poor servants, who loved him, I may say, better than we did our lives. I am afraid he caught his death the last...
Page 35 - I think never happened above once or twice at most, they appeal to me. At his first settling with me, I made him a present of all the good sermons which have been printed in English, and only begged of him that every Sunday he would pronounce one of them in the pulpit. Accordingly he has digested them into such a series, that they follow one another naturally, and make a continued system of practical divinity.
Page 33 - This humanity and good nature engages everybody to him; so that when he is pleasant upon any of them, all his family are in good humour, and none so much as the person whom he diverts himself with: on the contrary, if he coughs, or betrays any infirmity of old age, it is easy for a stander-by to observe a secret concern in the looks of all his servants.
Page 6 - ... who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed a whole 5 afternoon in the churchyard, the cloisters, and the church, amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else...
Page 117 - He was buried, according to his own directions, among the family of the Coverleys, on the left hand of his father, Sir Arthur. The coffin was carried by six of his tenants, and the pall held up by six of the quorum : the whole parish followed the corpse with heavy hearts, and in their mourning suits, the men in frieze, and the women in riding-hoods.