Selections from the Writings of Joseph AddisonGinn, 1905 - 346 |
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Strona xii
... public service , he was granted by the Crown , in 1699 , a pension of £ 300 , on which he might travel , to supplement his learned attainments by experience of the world . He remained abroad for some four years , chiefly in France and ...
... public service , he was granted by the Crown , in 1699 , a pension of £ 300 , on which he might travel , to supplement his learned attainments by experience of the world . He remained abroad for some four years , chiefly in France and ...
Strona xiii
... public life in 1718 , he was granted a retiring pension of £ 1600 . So far as is known , too , he performed his public duties faithfully and well . 1 In All the while he remained a man of letters . In 1705 he published an account of his ...
... public life in 1718 , he was granted a retiring pension of £ 1600 . So far as is known , too , he performed his public duties faithfully and well . 1 In All the while he remained a man of letters . In 1705 he published an account of his ...
Strona xx
... public et les hommes de lettres en Angleterre au dix - huitième siècle , may be found detailed accounts of the general circumstances of English literature during Addison's career . The gist of these is that until the Spectator began to ...
... public et les hommes de lettres en Angleterre au dix - huitième siècle , may be found detailed accounts of the general circumstances of English literature during Addison's career . The gist of these is that until the Spectator began to ...
Strona xxi
... public career as Addison's would have been possible under no other circumstances . As the author of some promising verse , he received a travelling pension of £ 300 . His later writings brought him public offices of which the emoluments ...
... public career as Addison's would have been possible under no other circumstances . As the author of some promising verse , he received a travelling pension of £ 300 . His later writings brought him public offices of which the emoluments ...
Strona xxxvii
... public career to look after as well as his private morals , he was really incapable of such abandonment of himself to his art as must underlie any lasting artistic achievement . As an imaginary Spectator , on the other hand , he was ...
... public career to look after as well as his private morals , he was really incapable of such abandonment of himself to his art as must underlie any lasting artistic achievement . As an imaginary Spectator , on the other hand , he was ...
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Strona 26 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
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