The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Bind 2Vernor and Hood; John Walker; Cuthell and Martin; W.J. and J. Richardson; Longman and Rees; R. Lea; and J. and A. Arch. ; T. Maiden, printer, Sherbourn-Lane, 1804 |
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Side 53
... Adam could not laugh before the fall . Laughter , while it lasts , slackens and unbraces the mind , weakens the faculties , and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul : and thus far it may be looked ...
... Adam could not laugh before the fall . Laughter , while it lasts , slackens and unbraces the mind , weakens the faculties , and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul : and thus far it may be looked ...
Side 91
... Adam is not Æneas , nor Eve , Helen . I shall therefore examine it by the rules of epic poetry , and see whether it fall short of the Iliad or Eneid , in the beauties which are essential to that king of writing . The first thing to be ...
... Adam is not Æneas , nor Eve , Helen . I shall therefore examine it by the rules of epic poetry , and see whether it fall short of the Iliad or Eneid , in the beauties which are essential to that king of writing . The first thing to be ...
Side 103
... Adam and Eve , before the fall , are a different species from that of mankind , who are descended from them ; and none but a poet of the most un- bounded invention , and the most exquisite judg ment , could have filled their ...
... Adam and Eve , before the fall , are a different species from that of mankind , who are descended from them ; and none but a poet of the most un- bounded invention , and the most exquisite judg ment , could have filled their ...
Side 107
... Adam and Eve : · Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons , the fairest of her daughters Eve . It is plain , that in the former of these passages according to the natural syntax , the divine persons mentioned in the first line ...
... Adam and Eve : · Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons , the fairest of her daughters Eve . It is plain , that in the former of these passages according to the natural syntax , the divine persons mentioned in the first line ...
Side 108
... Adam- The greatest masters in composition knew very well , that many an elegant phrase becomes improper for a poet or an orator , when it has been debased by common use . For this reason the works of ancient authors , which are written ...
... Adam- The greatest masters in composition knew very well , that many an elegant phrase becomes improper for a poet or an orator , when it has been debased by common use . For this reason the works of ancient authors , which are written ...
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