The Life of Joseph Addison, المجلد 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843 - 256 من الصفحات |
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... humour , combined with fancy and an indescribable grace , - in the other parts of literature he was rather the judicious and discriminating follower of the best clas- sical models , than the inventor of any new style of excellence ; and ...
... humour , combined with fancy and an indescribable grace , - in the other parts of literature he was rather the judicious and discriminating follower of the best clas- sical models , than the inventor of any new style of excellence ; and ...
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... English poets ; but " justice demands , " says our author , that " The noble Montague " should not be left unsung , " For wit , for humour and for judgment famed , " and who be- sides addressing lord Dorset , " In numbers such as.
... English poets ; but " justice demands , " says our author , that " The noble Montague " should not be left unsung , " For wit , for humour and for judgment famed , " and who be- sides addressing lord Dorset , " In numbers such as.
الصفحة 63
... humour which , though unquestionably native to the mind of Addison , is nowhere perceptible in his vernacular poetry , discloses itself very happily in several of his Latin pieces . It tinges several pas- sages of his mock - heroic ...
... humour which , though unquestionably native to the mind of Addison , is nowhere perceptible in his vernacular poetry , discloses itself very happily in several of his Latin pieces . It tinges several pas- sages of his mock - heroic ...
الصفحة 68
... Humour is grown so uni- versal that it is got among ye Poets who are ev'ry day publishing Lives of Saints and Legends in Rhime . My Imperfect Acquaintance with ye French tongue makes me incapable of learning any particular News of this ...
... Humour is grown so uni- versal that it is got among ye Poets who are ev'ry day publishing Lives of Saints and Legends in Rhime . My Imperfect Acquaintance with ye French tongue makes me incapable of learning any particular News of this ...
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... Humour'd the Genius of the place , and only made use of so much art as is necessary to Help and regulate Nature without reforming her too much . The cascades seem to break through the Clefts and cracks of Rocks that are cover'd over ...
... Humour'd the Genius of the place , and only made use of so much art as is necessary to Help and regulate Nature without reforming her too much . The cascades seem to break through the Clefts and cracks of Rocks that are cover'd over ...
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Abraham Stanyan acquaintance Addison afterwards ancient appears army battle of Blenheim BISHOP HOUGH Blois celebrated character classical Congreve conversation cou'd court Dear Sir doubtless Dryden duchess of Marlborough DUKE OF SOMERSET EARL OF MANCHESTER EARL OF WHARTON England English esteem father favour France French friendship Gallway Geneva genius Georgics give Godolphin Grace hear Holland hope Humble Servant humour Ireland Italy JOSEPH ADDISON kind King L'ship Latin learned letter Lisbon literary lord Halifax LORD SOMERS lordship Majesty Marlborough Milston Muse nature occasion Ovid Oxford parliament patron person piece poem poet poetical poetry political present prince probably queen received reign remarks Rome says secretary shou'd Steele Stepney Papers Swift taste thought Tickell Papers tions TONSON town translation travels verse Wharton whig WORTLEY MONTAGU wou'd writer WYCHE ye honour ye world
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الصفحة 172 - 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...
الصفحة 119 - For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, poetic fields encompass me around, and still I seem to tread on classic ground...
الصفحة 120 - With all the gifts that heav'n and earth impart, The smiles of nature, and the charms of art, While proud oppression in her valleys reigns, And tyranny usurps her happy plains...
الصفحة 38 - Long had our dull fore-fathers slept supine, Nor felt the raptures of the tuneful Nine; Till Chaucer first, a merry bard, arose, And many a story told in rhyme and prose. But age has rusted what the poet writ, Worn out his language, and obscur'd his wit: In vain he jests in his unpolish'd strain, And tries to make his readers laugh in vain.
الصفحة 58 - am called,' he said, ' an enemy of the Church. But I will never ' do it any other injury than keeping Mr Addison out of it.
الصفحة 217 - Quails popule& moerens Philomela sub umbra Amissos queritur foetus, quos durus arator Observans nido implumes detraxit ; at ilia Flet noctem, ramoque sedens miserabile carmen Integral, et moestis late loca questibus implet.
الصفحة 215 - I have news brought me of a nest which has abundance of little eggs, streaked with red and blue veins, that, by the description they give me, must make a very beautiful figure on a string. My neighbours are very much divided in their opinions upon them : some say they are a skylark's...
الصفحة 177 - To Dr. Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age.
الصفحة 180 - above all men in that talent called humour, and enjoyed it in such perfection, that I have often reflected, after a night ' spent with him apart from all the world, that I had...
الصفحة 50 - It is certain that this Chancellor was a most excellent lawyer, very learned in all polite literature, a superior pen, master of a handsome style, and of easy conversation; but he is said to make too much haste to be rich, as his predecessor, and most in place in this age did, to a more prodigious excess than was ever known.