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Date: Saturday, March 29, 1712
"The Sixth Book, like a troubled Ocean, represents Greatness in Confusion; the seventh Affects the Imagination like the Ocean in a Calm, and fills the Mind of the Reader, without producing in it any thing like Tumult or Agitation."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: Saturday, March 29, 1712
"As Poetry delights in cloathing abstracted Ideas in Allegories and sensible Images, we find a magnificent Description of the Creation form'd after the same manner in one of the Prophets, wherein he describes the Almighty Architect as measuring the Waters in the Hollow of his Hand, meting out the...
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: Saturday, April 5, 1712
"He likewise is represented as discovering by the Light of Reason, that he and every thing about him must have been the Effect of some Being infinitely good and powerful, and that this Being had a right to his Worship and Adoration."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: Saturday, April 5, 1712
"The Impression which the Interdiction of the Tree of Life left in the Mind of our first Parent, is describ'd with great Strength and Judgment; as the Image of the several Beasts and Birds passing in review before him is very beautiful and lively."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: Saturday, April 19, 1712
"The Plan of Milton's Poem is of an infinitely greater Extent, and fills the Mind with many more astonishing Circumstances."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: Monday, April 21, 1712
"It is not to rid much Ground, or do much Mischief, that should denominate a pleasant Fellow; but that is truly Frolick which is the Play of the Mind, and consists of various and unforced Sallies of Imagination."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: Tuesday, April 22, 1712
"After this I laid Siege to four Heiresses successively, and being a handsome young Dog in those Days, quickly made a Breach in their Hearts."
preview | full record— Budgell, Eustace (1686-1737)
Date: Monday, April 28, 1712
"From hence my Thoughts took Occasion to ramble into the general Notion of Travelling, as it is now made a Part of Education."
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: Monday, April 28, 1712
"Thus he spends his time as Children do at Puppet-Shows, and with much the same Advantage, in staring and gaping at an amazing Variety of strange things: strange indeed to one who is not prepared to comprehend the Reasons and Meaning of them; whilst he should be laying the solid Foundations of Kn...
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
Date: Monday, April 28, 1712
"But how can any of these Advantages be attained by one who is a mere Stranger to the Customs and Policies of his native Country, and has not yet fixed in his Mind the first Principles of Manners and Behaviour? To endeavour it, is to build a gawdy Structure without any Foundation; or, if I may be...
preview | full record— Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729)
