A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper ; Consisting of Biographical Sketches of the Authors, Selections from Their Works, with Notes, Explanatory, Illustrative, and Directing to the Best Editions and to Various Criticisms...E. C. and J. Biddle, 1859 - 762 pages |
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... Tatler , ( note ) .. 375 Lines addressed to Addison ....... 432 Spectator 375 Guardian 376 JONATHAN SWIFT .... 433 On Shakspeare 377 Wood's Half - Pence .. 434 Bickerstaff's learning Fencing 378 Country Hospitality .. 435 On the Use of ...
... Tatler , ( note ) .. 375 Lines addressed to Addison ....... 432 Spectator 375 Guardian 376 JONATHAN SWIFT .... 433 On Shakspeare 377 Wood's Half - Pence .. 434 Bickerstaff's learning Fencing 378 Country Hospitality .. 435 On the Use of ...
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... Tatler , in which Addison has ridiculed , with infinite humor , the propensity of Sir John towards the marvellous . 2 In printing these extracts from Mandeville , the edition of J. O. Halliwell , London , 1839 , pub- lished from a ...
... Tatler , in which Addison has ridiculed , with infinite humor , the propensity of Sir John towards the marvellous . 2 In printing these extracts from Mandeville , the edition of J. O. Halliwell , London , 1839 , pub- lished from a ...
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... Tatler . " When the sixth number of this appeared , Addison knew that the author was his friend Sir Richard Steele , from a critical remark which he had privately made to him alone , and he therefore immediately took a very active part ...
... Tatler . " When the sixth number of this appeared , Addison knew that the author was his friend Sir Richard Steele , from a critical remark which he had privately made to him alone , and he therefore immediately took a very active part ...
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... Tatler , No. 93 . I do not know whether to call the following letter a satire upon coquettes , or a representation of their several fantastical accom- plishments , or what other title to give it ; but , as it is , I shall com- inunicate ...
... Tatler , No. 93 . I do not know whether to call the following letter a satire upon coquettes , or a representation of their several fantastical accom- plishments , or what other title to give it ; but , as it is , I shall com- inunicate ...
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... hand ! But what avail her unexhausted stores , Her blooming mountains and her sunny shores , Essays on the Tatler , Guardian , and Spectator , vol . 1. p . 315 . With all the gifts that heaven and earth impart , 894 [ GEORGE I. ADDISON .
... hand ! But what avail her unexhausted stores , Her blooming mountains and her sunny shores , Essays on the Tatler , Guardian , and Spectator , vol . 1. p . 315 . With all the gifts that heaven and earth impart , 894 [ GEORGE I. ADDISON .
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Page 597 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Page 213 - We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Page 598 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign' d, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?
Page 164 - 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.
Page 664 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 593 - Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes: Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm: Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That hush'd in grim repose expects his evening prey.
Page 247 - That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed...
Page 598 - Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th...
Page 394 - I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be...
Page 266 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...