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... ADDISON . Expertness and dexterity require more corporeal than mental power exerted in minor arts and amusements : one is expert at throwing the quoit ; dexterous in the management of horses ; O'er bar and shelf the watery path they ...
... ADDISON . Expertness and dexterity require more corporeal than mental power exerted in minor arts and amusements : one is expert at throwing the quoit ; dexterous in the management of horses ; O'er bar and shelf the watery path they ...
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... ADDISON . Of this description of wit Mr. Addison has given us the most admirable specimens in his writings , who knew best how to explain what wit and humour was , and to illustrate it by his practice . Humour may likewise display ...
... ADDISON . Of this description of wit Mr. Addison has given us the most admirable specimens in his writings , who knew best how to explain what wit and humour was , and to illustrate it by his practice . Humour may likewise display ...
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... ADDISON . Wit is mostly displayed in aptness of expression and illustration ; When I broke loose from that great body of writers , who have employed their wit and parts in propagating vice and irreligion , I did not question but I ...
... ADDISON . Wit is mostly displayed in aptness of expression and illustration ; When I broke loose from that great body of writers , who have employed their wit and parts in propagating vice and irreligion , I did not question but I ...
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... ADDISON . Con- ceptions are the fruit of the imagination ; It is natu- ral for the imaginations of men who lead their lives in too solitary a manner to prey upon themselves , and form from their own conceptions beings and things which ...
... ADDISON . Con- ceptions are the fruit of the imagination ; It is natu- ral for the imaginations of men who lead their lives in too solitary a manner to prey upon themselves , and form from their own conceptions beings and things which ...
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... ADDISON . The reason is that which flows out of the nature of the thing ; ' If it be natural , ought we not rather to conclude that there is some ground or reason for those fears , and that nature hath not planted them in us to no ...
... ADDISON . The reason is that which flows out of the nature of the thing ; ' If it be natural , ought we not rather to conclude that there is some ground or reason for those fears , and that nature hath not planted them in us to no ...
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according action ADDISON affections applied authority bad sense BLAIR body BURKE cause cerned character Christian Cicero circumstances comes common commonly compounded comprehends conduct CUMBERLAND degree denotes desire disposition distinction divine DRYDEN duty employed epithets evil exertion expresses favor fear feeling former French frequently German give Greek habits happy heart Hebrew hence HUDIBRAS human idea implies individual JENYNS JOHNSON judgement Latin latter less likewise low German manner marks marriage means ment MILTON mind mode nature ness never nexion nifies object offender one's opinion opposed ourselves pain participle particular passions perly Pisistratus pleasure POPE principles produce racter regard religion render respects Saxon sentiment SHAKSPEARE signifies literally society sometimes soul SOUTH speak species spects spirit STEELE superior supposed temper THOMSON tion Titus Manlius Torquatus uncon vice vidual violence virtue wish word
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Page 283 - To men of other minds my fancy flies, Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land, And sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore...
Page 174 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page 320 - But happy they, the happiest of their kind, Whom gentler stars unite, and in one fate Their hearts, their fortunes, and their beings blend. 'Tis not the coarser tie of human laws, Unnatural oft, and foreign to the mind, That binds their peace ; but harmony itself, Attuning all their passions into love . Where friendship...
Page 92 - Ye noble few ! who here unbending stand Beneath life's pressure, yet bear up awhile, And what your bounded view, which only saw A little part, deem'd Evil, is no more ; The storms of Wintry Time will quickly pass, And one unbounded Spring encircle all.
Page 15 - If by a more noble and more adequate conception, that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just...
Page 208 - But when contending chiefs blockade the throne, Contracting regal power to stretch their own ; When I behold a factious band agree To call it freedom when themselves are free ; Each wanton judge new penal statutes draw, Laws grind the poor^ and rich men rule the law...
Page 68 - His house was known to all the vagrant train ; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain.
Page 75 - Labour, and penury, the racks of pain, Disease, and sorrow's weeping train, And death, sad refuge from the storms of fate!
Page 23 - Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.
Page 348 - Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates! (How my heart trembles while my tongue relates!) The day when thou, imperial Troy! must bend, And see thy warriors fall, thy glories end.