The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, المجلد 11804 |
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الصفحة vi
... English poets abound in forced conceits , and affected phrases ; and even those who are said to come the nearest to exact- ness , are but too often fond of unnatural beauties , and aim at something better than perfection . If Mr ...
... English poets abound in forced conceits , and affected phrases ; and even those who are said to come the nearest to exact- ness , are but too often fond of unnatural beauties , and aim at something better than perfection . If Mr ...
الصفحة vii
... English performance made public by him , is a short copy of verses to Mr. Dryden , with a view particularly to his translations . This was soon followed by a version of the fourth Georgic of Virgil , of which Mr. Dryden makes very ho ...
... English performance made public by him , is a short copy of verses to Mr. Dryden , with a view particularly to his translations . This was soon followed by a version of the fourth Georgic of Virgil , of which Mr. Dryden makes very ho ...
الصفحة xvi
... English , in a very hasty manner , by the Editor , and one of his friends , who had the good - nature to assist him during his avocations of business . It was thought better to add these translations , such as they are , than to let the ...
... English , in a very hasty manner , by the Editor , and one of his friends , who had the good - nature to assist him during his avocations of business . It was thought better to add these translations , such as they are , than to let the ...
الصفحة 18
... English writers , in their way of thinking and expressing themselves , resemble those authors much more than the modern Italians pretend to do . And as for the poet himself , from whom the dreams of this opera are taken , I must ...
... English writers , in their way of thinking and expressing themselves , resemble those authors much more than the modern Italians pretend to do . And as for the poet himself , from whom the dreams of this opera are taken , I must ...
الصفحة 42
... English tragedy appear with that action which is capable of giving dignity to the forced thoughts , cold conceits , and unnatural expressions of an Italian opera ! In the mean time , I have related this com- bat of the lion , to shew ...
... English tragedy appear with that action which is capable of giving dignity to the forced thoughts , cold conceits , and unnatural expressions of an Italian opera ! In the mean time , I have related this com- bat of the lion , to shew ...
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الصفحة 36 - Shine not in vain ; nor think, though men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night : how often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator ? oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk...
الصفحة 159 - ... in separating carefully, one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.
الصفحة 270 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it, he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself, or sends his servants to them.
الصفحة 338 - I see multitudes of people passing over it", said I, "and a black cloud hanging on each end of it ". As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon...
الصفحة 349 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
الصفحة 196 - They closed full fast on every side, No slackness there was found; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground.
الصفحة 270 - Sometimes he will be lengthening out a verse in the singing psalms, half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it ; sometimes when he is pleased with the matter of his devotion, he pronounces
الصفحة 256 - 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.
الصفحة 391 - If I did despise the cause of my manservant, Or of my maidservant, when they contended with me : What then shall I do when God riseth up ? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him ? Did not he that made me in the womb make him ? And did not one fashion us in the womb...
الصفحة 339 - 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...