Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art; And in a low expiring strain, Play all the comfort o'er… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is sometimes a greater judgement shewn in deviating from the rules of art, than in adhering to them; and?there ismore beauty… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The ways of heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors; Our understanding traces them in vain, Lost… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It happened very providentially, to the honor of the Christian religion, that it did not take its rise in the dark illiterate… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Those who were skillful in Anatomy among the Ancients, concluded from the outward and inward Make of an Human Body, that it… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it.… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine! — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must be showing… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
