Macaulay's Essay on AddisonGinn, 1898 - 130 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xvi
... style is taking a composition tonic . It is the best remedy that can be prescribed for the diffuseness and inaccuracy of thought , loose and ineffective sentence- structure , and feeble use of words , that beset the average untrained ...
... style is taking a composition tonic . It is the best remedy that can be prescribed for the diffuseness and inaccuracy of thought , loose and ineffective sentence- structure , and feeble use of words , that beset the average untrained ...
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... style and melody ; nay , he copied their manner with admirable skill , and surpassed , we think , all their British imitators who had preceded him , Buchanan 20 and Milton alone excepted . This is high praise ; and beyond this we cannot ...
... style and melody ; nay , he copied their manner with admirable skill , and surpassed , we think , all their British imitators who had preceded him , Buchanan 20 and Milton alone excepted . This is high praise ; and beyond this we cannot ...
الصفحة 11
... style and an easy flow of numbers are com- mon to all Addison's Latin poems . Our favorite piece is the ' Battle of the Cranes and Pygmies , ' for in that piece we discern a gleam of the fancy and humor which many years later enlivened ...
... style and an easy flow of numbers are com- mon to all Addison's Latin poems . Our favorite piece is the ' Battle of the Cranes and Pygmies , ' for in that piece we discern a gleam of the fancy and humor which many years later enlivened ...
الصفحة 17
... style and rhythm , on the peace of Ryswick . The wish of the young poet's great friends was , it should seem , to employ him in the service of the Crown abroad . But an intimate knowledge of the French 15 language was a qualification ...
... style and rhythm , on the peace of Ryswick . The wish of the young poet's great friends was , it should seem , to employ him in the service of the Crown abroad . But an intimate knowledge of the French 15 language was a qualification ...
الصفحة 21
... style of Livy ? Yet is it not certain that , in the style of Livy , Pollio , whose taste had been formed on the banks of the Tiber , detected the inelegant idiom of the Po ? Has any modern scholar understood Latin better than 15 ...
... style of Livy ? Yet is it not certain that , in the style of Livy , Pollio , whose taste had been formed on the banks of the Tiber , detected the inelegant idiom of the Po ? Has any modern scholar understood Latin better than 15 ...
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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...