The Works of Joseph Addison: The SpectatorG.P. Putnam & Company, 1854 |
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... learned world is very much divided upon Milton as to this point , I hope they will excuse me if I appear particular in any of my opinions , and incline to those who judge the most advantageously of the author . It is requisite that the ...
... learned world is very much divided upon Milton as to this point , I hope they will excuse me if I appear particular in any of my opinions , and incline to those who judge the most advantageously of the author . It is requisite that the ...
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... , the copiousness of his phrases , and the running of his verses into one another . Elisions . He learned this secret from the Italian poets . - H . L. No. 291. SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 2 . Ubi plura nitent No. 285. ] 55 SPECTATOR . 55.
... , the copiousness of his phrases , and the running of his verses into one another . Elisions . He learned this secret from the Italian poets . - H . L. No. 291. SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 2 . Ubi plura nitent No. 285. ] 55 SPECTATOR . 55.
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... 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 critic , " when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning . It is in criticism ...
... 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 critic , " when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning . It is in criticism ...
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... learned the art of dis- tinguishing between words and things , and of ranging his thoughts , and setting them in proper lights , whatever notions he may have , will lose himself in confusion and obscurity . I might further observe ...
... learned the art of dis- tinguishing between words and things , and of ranging his thoughts , and setting them in proper lights , whatever notions he may have , will lose himself in confusion and obscurity . I might further observe ...
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... learned call technical words , or terms of art . It is one of the great beauties of poetry , to make hard things intelligible , and to deliver what is abstruse of itself in such easy language as may be understood by ordinary readers ...
... learned call technical words , or terms of art . It is one of the great beauties of poetry , to make hard things intelligible , and to deliver what is abstruse of itself in such easy language as may be understood by ordinary readers ...
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Page 394 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 455 - I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth : my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt shew me the path of life : in thy presence is fulness of joy ; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Page 437 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. Then said I, "Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
Page 102 - Awake, My fairest, my espoused, my latest found, Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight ! Awake : the morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tended plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Page 69 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 68 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Page 645 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Page 419 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys ; Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise : n.
Page 102 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 487 - Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet ; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.