Macaulay's Essay on AddisonGinn, 1898 - 130 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xii
... Commons as member for Calne . At For the next seventeen years literature held only a second place in his thoughts . His speeches on the Reform Bill in 1831 placed him at once in the front rank of parliamentary orators , and contributed ...
... Commons as member for Calne . At For the next seventeen years literature held only a second place in his thoughts . His speeches on the Reform Bill in 1831 placed him at once in the front rank of parliamentary orators , and contributed ...
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... Commons . At this time Addison seemed inclined to devote him- 15 self to poetry . He published a translation of part of the fourth Georgic , ' Lines to King William , ' and other per- formances of equal value ; that is to say , of no ...
... Commons . At this time Addison seemed inclined to devote him- 15 self to poetry . He published a translation of part of the fourth Georgic , ' Lines to King William , ' and other per- formances of equal value ; that is to say , of no ...
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... Commons . At such a conjuncture , it was natu- ral that literary and oratorical talents should rise in value . There was danger that a government which neglected such talents might be subverted by them . It was , there- fore , a ...
... Commons . At such a conjuncture , it was natu- ral that literary and oratorical talents should rise in value . There was danger that a government which neglected such talents might be subverted by them . It was , there- fore , a ...
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... Commons , and , 20 though his peers had dismissed the impeachment , had , as it seemed , little chance of ever again filling high office . The Epistle , written at such a time , is one among many proofs that there was no mixture of ...
... Commons , and , 20 though his peers had dismissed the impeachment , had , as it seemed , little chance of ever again filling high office . The Epistle , written at such a time , is one among many proofs that there was no mixture of ...
الصفحة 40
... Commons in which Tories of the most perverse class had the ascendency . The elections were favorable to the Whigs . The coalition which had been tacitly and gradu- ally formed was now openly avowed . The Great Seal was given to Cowper ...
... Commons in which Tories of the most perverse class had the ascendency . The elections were favorable to the Whigs . The coalition which had been tacitly and gradu- ally formed was now openly avowed . The Great Seal was given to Cowper ...
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الصفحة 121 - Peace to all such! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please. And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yev with jealous eyes.
الصفحة 47 - Spectators were equalled in their own kind, we should be inclined to guess that it must have been by the lost comedies of Menander. In wit, properly so called, Addison was not inferior to Cowley or Butler. No single ode of Cowley contains so many happy analogies as are crowded into the lines to Sir Godfrey Kneller ; and we would undertake to collect from the Spectators as great a number of ingenious illustrations as can be found in Hudibras.
الصفحة 110 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer, Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike ; Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
الصفحة 98 - A brighter wash ; to curl their waving hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs ; Nay oft, in dreams, invention we bestow, To change a flounce, or add a furbelow.
الصفحة x - The first rule of all writing — that rule to which every other is subordinate — is that the words used by the writer shall be such as most fully and precisely convey his meaning to the great body of his readers. All considerations about the purity and dignity of style ought to bend to this consideration.
الصفحة 92 - Such a mark of national respect was due to the unsullied 10 statesman, to the accomplished scholar, to the master of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners. It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule without abusing it; who, without inflicting a wound, effected a 1 5 great social reform ; and who reconciled wit and virtue, after a long and disastrous separation, during which wit had been led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism.
الصفحة 47 - I fared like a distressed prince, who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid; I was undone by my auxiliary; when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.
الصفحة 5 - He is taller, by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court ; which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders.
الصفحة 41 - Steele had known Addison from childhood. They had been together at the Charter House and at Oxford ; but circumstances had then, for a time, separated them widely. Steele had left college without taking a degree, had been disinherited by a rich relation, had led a vagrant life, had served in the army, had tried to find the philosopher's stone, and had written a religious treatise and several comedies. He was one of those people whom it is impossible either to hate or to respect.
الصفحة 38 - Pope was forced to own that there was a charm in Addison's talk which could be found nowhere else. Swift, when burning with animosity against the Whigs, could not but confess to Stella that, after all, he had never known any associate so agreeable as Addison. Steele, an excellent judge of lively conversation, said that the conversation of Addison was at once the most polite and the most mirthful that could be imagined...