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Author : Thomas Babington Macaulay
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ISBN 13 : 9781528448086
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Essay on Addison (Classic Reprint) written by Thomas Babington Macaulay and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Addison
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483013162
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Select Essays of Addison written by Joseph Addison and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Select Essays of Addison: Together With Macaulay's Essay on Addison's Life and Writings Having found the presence of a mass of explanatory notes an Obstacle to my endeavor to interest my pupils in their English reading, I have essayed to suggest a better method of procedure by preparing texts in such a manner as rather to call for research than to make research needless by giving its results. A note that tells at once what is wanted forestalls the teacher. I would co-operate with the teacher by aiding him to set the pupils at work. Accordingly I have Offered no notes whatever on passages easily explained by reference to dictionaries and encyclopedias, except perchance to give a warning that such research Should not be omitted. Only when I have found the way of research a little dark or crooked have I hinted at the path to be pursued. The notes in this volume, therefore, are distinctly meant to send the learner away from the little books in his little desk to the larger and more abundant books of the school library, and to the public and other libraries to which he may have access. I have myself found it a joy to conquer these small difficulties: this joy I would share with my pupils. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Thomas Babington Macaulay
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334516900
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (169 download)
Download or read book Macaulay's Essay on Addison (Classic Reprint) written by Thomas Babington Macaulay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-04 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Macaulay's Essay on Addison IN this famous Essay a great English man Of letters gives us his help towards the study of one of his predecessors. He places at our service his wonderful memory, his power of marshalling facts and details in array, his skill in story-telling, his own never-failing interest in the story he has to tell. The Essay is well worth reading because it was Macaulay that wrote it. It is also worthy Of study because it is about Addison - the dear parson in the tye-wig, as Thackeray called him, because, without assuming the dress Of a clergyman, he became, in his gentle humorous way, a preacher Of morals to his age - one of the most loveable characters among literary men, and one of the greatest writers Of English prose. Again, it deserves to be studied because it tells us so much about a most interesting period, the age Of Queen Anne, the age Of the famous London coffee-houses, when English politics and English literature were more closely connected than they have ever been before or since. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Thomas Babington Macaulay
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267651535
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Macaulay's Essay on Addison written by Thomas Babington Macaulay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Macaulay's Essay on Addison: Edited With Introduction and Notes The poems, plays, essays, and stories in these small volumes are treated, first of all, as works of literature, which were written to be read and enjoyed, not to be parsed and scanned and pulled to pieces. A short life of the author is given, and a portrait, in order to help the student to know the real person who wrote the book. The introduction tells what it is about, and how it was written, and where the author got the idea, and what it means. The notes at the foot of the page are simply to give the sense of the hard words so that the student can read straight on without turning to a dictionary. The other notes, at the end of the book, explain difficulties and allusions and fine points. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Lord Macaulay
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ISBN 13 : 9781330844137
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (441 download)
Download or read book Selections From Addison's Papers in the Spectator written by Lord Macaulay and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Selections From Addison's Papers in the Spectator: Essay on Addison Pallida mors quo pulsat pede paupentm tabernas Regumque turret, O beate Sexti! Vita summa brevis spem nos vetat inchoate longam. Jam, te premet nox, fabulaque manes, Et domus exilis Plutonia. Hon. Od. i. 4. 13. With equal foot, rich friend, impartial Fate Knocks at the cottage, and the palace gate: Life's span forbids thee to extend thy cares, And stretch thy hopes beyond thy years: Night soon will seize, and you must quickly go To storied ghosts, and Pluto's house below. Creech. When I am in a serious humor, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Author : Joseph Addison
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781396716850
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (168 download)
Download or read book Selected Essays of Joseph Addison (Classic Reprint) written by Joseph Addison and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Selected Essays of Joseph Addison And Spectator in the formation of the English N ovel', it can scarcely be denied that to those periodicals is due the Eighteenth Century Essay. Indeed, one might almost write Modem English Essay, since (making due allowance for increased complexities of life and larger fields of discussion) neither in the com pressed dogmata vitae of Bacon, nor in the utterances, leisurely or courtly, of Cowley and Temple, do we find anything so nearly corresponding to the existing journalistic middle article as many of the later papers in the Tatler of 1709-11. From the outset, Captain Steele, the Editor of that Letter of Intelli gence, had proclaimed his intention of observing upon the Mariners of the Pleasurable as well as the Busie Part of Mankind but it was not until his eighteenth number had been reached that the note of a new method was definitely struck. This was in a contributed paragraph on the Distress (of the N ews Writers, whose lamentable fate it was, in default of fresh advices from France 'or Holland, to have to manufacture their own material to sing the furious troops in battle join'd, when there was no battle to abandon sieges never begun; and to raise the hymn. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Thomas Babington Macaulay
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483187320
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Macaulay's Essay on Addison written by Thomas Babington Macaulay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Macaulay's Essay on Addison: Edited and Annotated IN the preparation of the following introductory matter an effort has been made to present only that which will be available and useful to the average student. Critical analyses and discussions have been studiously avoided. Generally the introduction to a work of this class is carefully skipped by students, and sometimes, no doubt, wisely. Yet there is a certain kind and amount of introductory work which needs to be done 1n order to prepare the way for the proper study of any author, and it is hoped that the following pages will not altogether fail to meet this necessity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : J. H. Fowler
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ISBN 13 : 9780267797110
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (971 download)
Download or read book Essays From Addison written by J. H. Fowler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essays From Addison: Selected and Edited, With Introductions, Notes, Glossary, Etc XVIII. -xix. Commend me to this dear preacher without orders - this parson in the tye-wig (thackeray). With the account Of Eugenius in no. XIX. Compare a charming paper by Goldsmith on The Man in Black (citizen of the World, no. XX. One of the series of essays in which Addison called the attention Of his age to the greatness of Paradise Lost. Literary criticism, it must be remembered, was mainly (in spite of noble exceptions, such as Dryden's Prefaces) of the most pedantic sort: works of art were judged by their conformity to rules framed in accordance with a narrow and unintelligent study of the ancient critics. Addison's judgments, though some may now seem Obvious and others wrong, were in advance of his time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : James George Frazer
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267435548
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Essays of Joseph Addison, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by James George Frazer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essays of Joseph Addison, Vol. 2 of 2 Sooner than violate his neutrality to the two bundles of hay, I shall not presume to determine; but only take notice of the conduct of our own species in the same perplexity. When a man has a mind to venture his money in a lottery, every figure of it appears equally alluring, and as likely to succeed as any of its fellows. They all of them have the same pretensions to good luck, stand upon the same foot of competition, and no manner of reason can be given why a man should prefer one to the other before the lottery is drawn. In this case therefore caprice very often acts in the place of reason, and forms to itself some groundless imaginary motive, where real and sub stantial ones are wanting. I know a well-meaning man that is very well pleased to risk his good fortune upon the number 1711, because it is the year of our Lord. I am acquainted with a tacker that would give a good deal for the number On the contrary I have been told of a certain zealous Dissenter, who, being a great enemy to Popery, and believing that bad men are the most fortunate in this world, will lay two to one on the number 666 against any other number, because, says he, it is the number Of the Beast. Several would prefer the number before any other, as it is the number of the pounds in the great prize. In short, some are pleased to find their own age in their number; some that they have got a number which makes a pretty appearance in the ciphers and others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Thomas Babington Macaulay
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780364054772
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (547 download)
Download or read book The Life and Writings of Addison written by Thomas Babington Macaulay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life and Writings of Addison: With Notes and Appendix NO one can read Macaulay's Essays without being struck by his fascinating ease of style, his vast eru dition and prodigious memory. So strong was his memory that he seldom forgot anything that he either read or heard; he had therefore vast stores of know ledge from which to illustrate his meaning, enforce his argument, and delight his reader. Some of his illustrations and allusions, however, are rather abstruse and not easily understood by all readers. The cursory reader indeed is often carried away by the style of his author and is content to run on from page to page without understanding every allusion: to such a reader this edition may or may not be useful. To the painstaking student, who has the time, the inclination, and the library at command to do for him self the work that has been done by the editor, this little book will be worse than useless; and the editor assures all such students that they cannot do better than work out their difficulties in their own way. But to the careful reader that has only a limited supply of books and not very much time to spare on abstruse allusions, this annotated edition will perhaps prove helpful and be more or less welcome. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Joseph Addison
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ISBN 13 : 9780332988504
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (885 download)
Download or read book Selected Essays of Joseph Addison written by Joseph Addison and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-16 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Selected Essays of Joseph Addison: With an Introduction IN this oft - quoted line, Mr. Pope, with his own admirable terseness, has summed up the character of his great contemporary Joseph Addison. For Mr. Addison seems to have had by nature that most excel lent gift, au even and' cheerful temper. One thinks of him as wearing a certain calm dignity and decorum always. Courteous, urbane, with no angularities of character, throughout a long and busy life he seldom gave'offence to any one and when he did give Offence he offered his enemy no point of attack. And he had a good luck to match his good temper. Pensions and places he seemed to get without seeking, and to keep when everybody else' lost them I believe Mr. Addi son might be king if he chose, said Swift once, with a twinge of envy. The truth is, however, that Addison's good luck, like most good luck, was no mere accident, but the result of uniform good sense and good humor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Thomas Babington Macaulay
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331634778
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison (Classic Reprint) written by Thomas Babington Macaulay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison Owing to the fact that two well-edited books of Macaulay's Essays have already appeared in this series, each containing information and suggestions common to all of his essays, it does not seem necessary that any part of that same matter should be repeated in this vol ume. A further reason for brevity in introduction is that the two essays here chosen swell the size of the book beyond that of most of the other numbers of the series. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Joseph Addison
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ISBN 13 : 9781330656921
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (569 download)
Download or read book The Works of Joseph Addison, Vol. 2 of 5 written by Joseph Addison and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of Joseph Addison, Vol. 2 of 5: Including the Whole Contents of Bp, Hurd's Edition, With Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; And Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works Shortly before Addison died he arranged that his friend Thomas Tickell should publish his works, and in 1721 a collected edition appeared in four quarto volumes, with a letter of dedication from Addison to Craggs. This letter shows that Tickell's edition may be regarded as the final authority for everything contained in it, but a few works usually attributed to Addison were omitted, presumably in accordance with Addison's instructions. The plan of the present edition has been to reprint in the first two volumes Tickell's text of everything which he includes (except the Essays), and to collate all the earlier editions of each work so far as they could be found. Other works which appear to be genuine have been reprinted from the original editions, and collated with the important reissues. Works which appear to be spurious or very doubtful are printed in an appendix to the third volume. To each work there has been prefixed a note in two parts: the first states which text has been reprinted and which editions have been collated, the second deals very briefly with its bibliography. A detailed introduction and commentary and a general bibliography will be found in the third volume, which also contains Addison's Correspondence. A few misprints in Tickell's text have been corrected. The changes are marked by square brackets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Huber Gray Buehler
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ISBN 13 : 9780483261334
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Macaulay's Life of Johnson and Essay on Addison Edited (Classic Reprint) written by Huber Gray Buehler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Macaulay's Life of Johnson and Essay on Addison Edited About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Thomas Babington Macaulay
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ISBN 13 : 9780666682659
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (826 download)
Download or read book Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison written by Thomas Babington Macaulay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison: Edited for School Use This edition of Macaulay's essays follows the authori tative text, of which Longmans, Green, and Co. Are the publishers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : James George Frazer
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ISBN 13 : 9780484896269
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Essays of Joseph Addison, Vol. 1 of 2 written by James George Frazer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-21 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essays of Joseph Addison, Vol. 1 of 2: Chosen and Edited With a Preface and a Few Notes Having undertaken to edit these essays, in which Sir Roger de Coverley plays a leading part, I naturally formed a wish to visit the old knight's pleasant seat in Worcester shire, where the Spectator passed the month of July with him in rural retirement more than two hundred years ago. I was the more desirous of doing so, because my researches into the history of the Spectator Club had led me to believe, that on the dissolution of the club many of the papers relating to it had been sent for safe-keeping to Captain Sentry, Sir Roger's heir, and that some of them at least were still preserved in the muniment room at Coverley Hall. Accordingly I wrote to inquire of the present owner of the Hall, and received from him a very courteous letter in reply. He informed me that he had in his possession a considerable number of papers con cerning the club, that he had never himself examined them with attention, but that I should be free to do so and to publish anything of interest I might find in them, if I would pay him a visit and examine the documents on the spot, as be valued them too highly to trust them to the hazards of the post. He only stipulated, that I should not make his name public, nor drop any hint as to the part of Worcestershire in which Coverley is situated for he leads, as he told me, a very retired life on his ancestral estate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Samuel Thurber
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781527948792
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (487 download)
Download or read book Select Esays of Addison written by Samuel Thurber and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Select Esays of Addison: Together With Macaulay's Essay on Addison's Life and Writings And cumbrous sentences condensed themselves into the quick reasoning and terse easy phrases of ordinary conversation. Its tone lost the pedantry of the scholar, the brutality of the controversialist, and aimed at being unpretentious, polite, urbane. The writer aimed at teaching, but at teaching in pleasant and familiar ways he strove to make evil unreasonable and ridiculous; to shame men by wit and irony out of grossness and bad manners; to draw the world to piety and virtue by teaching piety and virtue themselves to smile. And the change of subject was as remarkable as the change of form. Letters found a new interest in the scenes and characters of the common life around them, in the chat of the coffee-house, the loungers of the Mall, the humours of the street, the pathos of the fireside. Every one has felt the change that passed in this way over our literature; but we commonly talk as if the change had been a change in the writers of the time, as if the intelligence which pro duces books had suddenly taken of itself a new form, as if men like Addison had conceived the Essay and their readers had adapted themselves to this new mode of writing. The truth lies precisely the other way. In no department of human life does the law of supply and demand operate so powerfully as in literature. Writers and readers are not two different classes of men both are products of the same social and mental conditions and the thoughts of the one will be commonly of the same order and kind as the thoughts of the other. Even in the form which a. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
