The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160H. G. Bohn, 1854 |
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第 iii 頁
... writers ; whose language and manner he caught at that time of life , as strongly as other young people gain a French accent or a genteel air . An early acquaintance with the classics is what may be called the good - breeding of poetry ...
... writers ; whose language and manner he caught at that time of life , as strongly as other young people gain a French accent or a genteel air . An early acquaintance with the classics is what may be called the good - breeding of poetry ...
第 viii 頁
... writing of which they both were concerned . The plan of the Spectator , as far as it regards t person of the author , and of the several characters pose his club , was projected in concert with Si Steele . And , because many passages in ...
... writing of which they both were concerned . The plan of the Spectator , as far as it regards t person of the author , and of the several characters pose his club , was projected in concert with Si Steele . And , because many passages in ...
第 ix 頁
... writing a play upon this subject , when he was very young at the university , and even attempted something in it there , though not a line as it now stands . The work was performed by him in his travels , and retouched in England ...
... writing a play upon this subject , when he was very young at the university , and even attempted something in it there , though not a line as it now stands . The work was performed by him in his travels , and retouched in England ...
第 x 頁
... writing of anothe the death of Socrates would have been the story . ever unpromising that subject may appear , it wou sumptuous to censure his choice , who was so fa raising the noblest plants from the most barren serves to show , that ...
... writing of anothe the death of Socrates would have been the story . ever unpromising that subject may appear , it wou sumptuous to censure his choice , who was so fa raising the noblest plants from the most barren serves to show , that ...
第 1 頁
... writing : but of such an one , it is enough to say at present , ( and I shall , surely , offend no good writer in saying it , ) " -hunc nequeo monstrare , et sentio tantùm . " No. 20. THURSDAY , MAY 26 , 1709 . Arc -THOUGH the theatre ...
... writing : but of such an one , it is enough to say at present , ( and I shall , surely , offend no good writer in saying it , ) " -hunc nequeo monstrare , et sentio tantùm . " No. 20. THURSDAY , MAY 26 , 1709 . Arc -THOUGH the theatre ...
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第 61 頁 - With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike : Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
第 272 頁 - 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 contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
第 473 頁 - Examine now, said he, this sea that is bounded with darkness at both ends, and tell me what thou discoverest in it. I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide.
第 316 頁 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
第 416 頁 - How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as Boon as it is created ? Are such abilities made for no purpose ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
第 475 頁 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.
第 474 頁 - I observed some with scimitars in their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trap-doors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped had they not been thus forced upon them. ' The genius seeing me indulge myself on this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it. Take thine eyes off the bridge, said he, and tell me if thou yet seest any thing thou dost not comprehend.
第 474 頁 - I directed my sight as I was ordered, and {whether or no the good Genius strengthened it with any supernatural force, or dissipated part of the mist that was before too thick for the eye to penetrate) I saw the valley opening at the...
第 270 頁 - When I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable.
第 472 頁 - I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.