Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer & Idler ; and of the Various Periodical Papers Which, in Imitation of the Writings of Steele and Addison, Have Been Published Between the Close of the Eight Volume of the Spectator and the Commencement of the Year 1809, 第 1 巻J. Seeley, 1809 |
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... dated March 11th , 1709 . 4. THE FEMALE TATLER . This work was written by Mr. Thomas Baker , and commenced its circulation in 1709. It extended to many numbers , most of which are now no longer extant . Its gross personalities obtained ...
... dated March 11th , 1709 . 4. THE FEMALE TATLER . This work was written by Mr. Thomas Baker , and commenced its circulation in 1709. It extended to many numbers , most of which are now no longer extant . Its gross personalities obtained ...
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... dated August 22d , 1709 . 9. THE WHISPERER . Though this work ( to which Addison has given the epithet under- mining ) is said to have been written by Mrs. Jenny Bickerstaff , half - sister to Isaac Bickerstaff , 6 ENUMERATION OF.
... dated August 22d , 1709 . 9. THE WHISPERER . Though this work ( to which Addison has given the epithet under- mining ) is said to have been written by Mrs. Jenny Bickerstaff , half - sister to Isaac Bickerstaff , 6 ENUMERATION OF.
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... dated November 9th , 1709 , is quoted by the annotator on N ° 91 of the Tatler . It is probable that Mr. Baker , the author of the Female Tatler , contributed to its support , as an advertisement by him is subjoined to N ° 19 . 11. THE ...
... dated November 9th , 1709 , is quoted by the annotator on N ° 91 of the Tatler . It is probable that Mr. Baker , the author of the Female Tatler , contributed to its support , as an advertisement by him is subjoined to N ° 19 . 11. THE ...
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... dated January 13th , 1710 , and numbered 276 . 14. ANNOTATIONS ON THE TATLER . This publication , to which Addison alludes in N ° 229 of the Tatler , was written by William Oldisworth , under the fictitious name of Walter Wagstaff , Esq ...
... dated January 13th , 1710 , and numbered 276 . 14. ANNOTATIONS ON THE TATLER . This publication , to which Addison alludes in N ° 229 of the Tatler , was written by William Oldisworth , under the fictitious name of Walter Wagstaff , Esq ...
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... dated August 3d , 1710 , and the last July 26th , 1714. It had the merit of giving origin to the Whig - Examiner of Addison , to the Reader of Steele , and to , 18. THE MEDLEY . This paper , which was not strictly confined to politics ...
... dated August 3d , 1710 , and the last July 26th , 1714. It had the merit of giving origin to the Whig - Examiner of Addison , to the Reader of Steele , and to , 18. THE MEDLEY . This paper , which was not strictly confined to politics ...
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339 ページ - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave; and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
301 ページ - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
248 ページ - I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.
330 ページ - Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water," and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it.
132 ページ - Yet, when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd ; For love, which scarce collective man can fill ; For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill ; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat...
367 ページ - DISORDERS of intellect,' answered Imlac, ' happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.
332 ページ - This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords.
167 ページ - I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful.
338 ページ - ... author, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great...
368 ページ - He who has nothing external that can divert him must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive himself what he is not ; for who is pleased with what he is? He then expatiates in boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he should most desire, amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion.