Essays from AddisonMacmillan Company, 1907 - 112 頁 |
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第 xiv 頁
... critic upon the popular estimation of a living artist's work . XIV.-XV. Steele had contributed the first sketch of Sir Roger de Coverley to the Spectator ( No. 2 ) . But Addison so developed the sketch that he must be looked upon as the ...
... critic upon the popular estimation of a living artist's work . XIV.-XV. Steele had contributed the first sketch of Sir Roger de Coverley to the Spectator ( No. 2 ) . But Addison so developed the sketch that he must be looked upon as the ...
第 xv 頁
... critics . Addison's judgments , though some may now seem obvious and others wrong , were in advance of his time . XXI . This delightfully humorous description of the defects of English oratory brings the eighteenth century very close to ...
... critics . Addison's judgments , though some may now seem obvious and others wrong , were in advance of his time . XXI . This delightfully humorous description of the defects of English oratory brings the eighteenth century very close to ...
第 xvi 頁
... critic ; a name which the present generation is scarcely willing to allow him . His criticism is condemned as tentative or experimental , rather than scientific ; and he is considered as deciding by taste rather than by principles . 66 ...
... critic ; a name which the present generation is scarcely willing to allow him . His criticism is condemned as tentative or experimental , rather than scientific ; and he is considered as deciding by taste rather than by principles . 66 ...
第 80 頁
... critics , but also with the ancient and modern who have written in either of the learned languages . Above all , I would have them well versed in the Greek and Latin poets , without which a man very often fancies that he understands a ...
... critics , but also with the ancient and modern who have written in either of the learned languages . Above all , I would have them well versed in the Greek and Latin poets , without which a man very often fancies that he understands a ...
第 81 頁
... critic who has not shown , even in the style of his criticisms , that he was a master of all the elegance and delicacy of his native tongue . The truth of it is , there is nothing more absurd than for a man to set up for a critic ...
... critic who has not shown , even in the style of his criticisms , that he was a master of all the elegance and delicacy of his native tongue . The truth of it is , there is nothing more absurd than for a man to set up for a critic ...
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第 68 頁 - The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life ; consider it attentively. Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which, added to those that were entire, made up the number about an hundred.
第 67 頁 - Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to another, " Surely," said I, " man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
第 68 頁 - But tell me further, said he, what thou discoverest on it. 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...
第 82 頁 - Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow ; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
第 60 頁 - 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.
第 78 頁 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
第 70 頁 - I could discover nothing in it: but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
第 61 頁 - I was yesterday very much surprised to hear my old friend, in the midst of the service, calling out to one John Matthews to mind what he was about, and not disturb the congregation. This John Matthews it seems is remarkable for being an idle fellow, and at that time was kicking his heels for his diversion.
第 57 頁 - I have observed in several of my papers that my friend Sir Roger, amidst all his good qualities, is something of a humorist ; and that his virtues, as well as imperfections, are, as it were, tinged by a certain extravagance which makes them particularly his, and distinguishes them from those of other men. This cast of...
第 67 頁 - man is but a shadow and life a dream.' Whilst I was thus musing, I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me, where I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a musical instrument in his hand.