The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 1G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Anthologies |
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... King's College , Oxford . He was the author of the tragedy " Cato , " " Travels in Italy , " and of many famous contributions to the Spectator and Tatler , of which Richard Steele was editor . Addison's style is simple , clear , and ...
... King's College , Oxford . He was the author of the tragedy " Cato , " " Travels in Italy , " and of many famous contributions to the Spectator and Tatler , of which Richard Steele was editor . Addison's style is simple , clear , and ...
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... subject . I have left the repository of our English kings for the contemplation of another day , when I shall find my mind disposed for so serious an amusement . I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark ADDISON II.
... subject . I have left the repository of our English kings for the contemplation of another day , when I shall find my mind disposed for so serious an amusement . I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark ADDISON II.
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... kings lying by those who deposed them , when I consider rival wits placed side by side , or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes , I reflect with sorrow and as- tonishment on the little competitions ...
... kings lying by those who deposed them , when I consider rival wits placed side by side , or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes , I reflect with sorrow and as- tonishment on the little competitions ...
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... King James I. That learned monarch was himself a tolerable punster , and made very few bishops or privy- counselors that had not some time or other signalized them- selves by a clinch , or a conundrum . It was therefore in this age that ...
... King James I. That learned monarch was himself a tolerable punster , and made very few bishops or privy- counselors that had not some time or other signalized them- selves by a clinch , or a conundrum . It was therefore in this age that ...
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... King of the happy ones sublime Has flung the chain he forged , has shamed and bound me ! · Woe , woe ! to - day's woe and the coming morrow's I cover with one groan . And where is found me A limit to these sorrows ? And yet what word do ...
... King of the happy ones sublime Has flung the chain he forged , has shamed and bound me ! · Woe , woe ! to - day's woe and the coming morrow's I cover with one groan . And where is found me A limit to these sorrows ? And yet what word do ...
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