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It is indeed very possible, that the Persons we laugh at may in the main of their Characters be much wiser Men than our selves; but if they would have us laugh at them, they must fall short of us in t...
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Joseph Addison (1672-1719), British author. The Spectator, No. 47 (1711).
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When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? my Mind is divided between the two opposite Opinions; or rather (to speak my Thoughts freely) I beli...
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Joseph Addison (1672-1719), British author. The Spectator, No. 117 (1711).
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''Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.''
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Joseph Addison (1672-1719), British author. The Spectator, No. 35 (1711).
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The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence. In a word, Good Breeding shows it self most, where to an ordinary Ey...
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Joseph Addison (1672-1719), British author. The Spectator, No. 119 (1711).
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Since I am upon this Subject, I must observe that our English Poets have succeeded much better in the Stile, than in the Sentiments of their Tragedies. Their Language is very often noble and sonorous,...
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Joseph Addison (1672-1719), British author. The Spectator, No. 39 (1711).
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Ordinary People ... are so used to be dazled [sic] with Riches, that they pay as much Deference to the Understanding of a Man of an Estate, as of a Man of Learning; and are very hardly brought to rega...
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Joseph Addison (1672-1719), British author. The Spectator, No. 112 (1711).
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I should prefer a Woman that is agreeable in my own Eye, and not deformed in that of the World, to a celebrated Beauty. If you marry one remarkably beautiful, you must have a violent Passion for her, ...
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Joseph Addison (1672-1719), British author. The Spectator, No. 261 (1711).
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Nature seems to have taken a particular Care to disseminate her Blessings among the different Regions of the World, with an Eye to this mutual Intercourse and Traffick among Mankind, that the Natives ...
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Joseph Addison (1672-1719), British author. The Spectator, No. 69 (1711).
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But there is nothing which delights and terrifies our English Theatre so much as a Ghost, especially when he appears in a bloody Shirt. A Spectre has very often saved a Play, though he has done nothin...
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Joseph Addison (1672-1719), British author. The Spectator, No. 44 (1711).
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''It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belong to his Neighbour.''
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Joseph Addison (1672-1719), British author. The Spectator, No. 131 (1711).
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The Campaign, A Poem, To His Grace
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While crowds of princes your deserts proclaim,
Proud in their number to enrol your name;
While emperors to you commit their cause,
And Anna's praises crown the vast applause;
Accept, great leader, what the Muse recites,
That in ambitious verse attempts your fights.
Fir'd and transported with a theme so new,
Ten thousand wonders opening to my view
Shine forth at once; sieges and storms appear,
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