Select Essays of Addison: Together with Macaulay's Essay on Addison's Life and Writings

Joseph Addison

Allyn and Bacon, 1892 - 320 pagina's

Inhoudsopgave

• The Spectator introduces himself to the reader: 5
• Will Honeycombs dislike of pedantry leads the Spectator to mor: 14
• Sir Rogers treatment of his servants: 22
• Ghosts and haunted houses: 29
• Sir Roger as: 38
• with Sir Roger he visits: 45
• Sir Roger tells a story of his boyhood which leads the Spectator: 52
• Sir Roger and the gypsies: 59
• The Spectator sees reasons why he had better return to town: 61
• Sir Roger visits Westminster Abbey: 67
• Sir Roger and the Spectator go by water to the Vauxhall Gardens: 75
• The Spectator imagines himself described by an antiquarian of: 84
• 1: 86
• The Spectator defends the raised price: 92
• Artifices of the dramatic poets: 101
• dramatic critics: 108
• Overcrowding of the learned professions: 118
• On country manners: 126
• The false rumor: 134
• The vision of public credit: 141
• The Tory foxhunter: 149
• Marraton and Yaratilda: 154
• The golden scales: 163
• Hilpa and Shalum: 171
• Thoughts in Westminster Abbey: 177
• Eagerness for news ridiculed: 184
• Ghost stories: 190
• A cheerful piety recommended: 197
• The Tatler explains whom he means by the expression dead: 206
• On immortality: 213
• Trust in God: 220
• A thought in sickness: 226
• 17: 304
• NOTES TO THE SELECT ESSAYS OF ADDISON: 306
• 84: 307

Populaire passages

Pagina 313 - 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...

Pagina 157 - Mirza, habitations worth contending for ? Does life appear miserable that gives thee opportunities of earning such a reward ? Is death to be feared that will convey thee to so happy an existence ? Think not man was made in vain, who has such an eternity reserved for him.

Pagina 218 - HOW are thy servants blest, O Lord, How sure is their defence ! Eternal wisdom is their guide, Their help, omnipotence.

Pagina 218 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The Moon takes up the wondrous tale; And nightly, to the listening Earth, Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets, in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.

Pagina 14 - 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 mind, as it is generally very innocent in itself, so it renders his conversation highly agreeable, and more delightful than the same degree of sense and virtue would appear in their common and ordinary colours.

Pagina xviii - Whether this might proceed from a law-suit which was then depending in the family, or my father's being a justice of the peace, I cannot determine; for I am not so vain as to think it presaged any dignity that I should arrive at in my future life, though that was the interpretation which the neighborhood put upon it.

Pagina 208 - 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.

Pagina xix - In short, wherever I see a cluster of people, I always mix with them, though I never open my lips but in my own club. Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator...

Pagina 155 - I observed some with scimitars in their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trapdoors 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 in 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 seest anything thou dost not comprehend." Upon looking up, "What mean...

Pagina 194 - IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy, would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.

Bibliografische gegevens

• Titel: Select Essays of Addison: Together with Macaulay's Essay on Addison's Life and Writings
• Auteur: Joseph Addison
• Redacteur: Samuel Thurber
• Uitgever: Allyn and Bacon, 1892
• Oorspronkelijk uit: Harvard University
• Gedigitaliseerd: 21 feb 2006
• Lengte: 320 pagina's