Word: addison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impressive oratorios, the best known among them being The Messiah, Samson, Judas Maccabaeus. Lately, led by the University of Gottingen, Germans have resurrected some of the operas their countryman used to compose, sometimes in a fortnight's time, for production at the Haymarket Theatre, in the London of Addison and Steele, Alexander Pope and George I, the music-loving Hanoverian...
...Fourth Reader was quite grown up, with more Bible selections and excerpts from Bacon, Addison, Milton, Shakespeare and an anonymous story about the woman who, by generously sharing her last smoked herring, rediscovered her long-lost...
...present reviewer had obeyed the impulse to do his stint after reading only the first part of the book, he would have damned the product utterly; he would indeed have sentenced Mr. Joad to spend his days and his nights with the study of Addison. More persistent reading of The Citizen of the World papers and less credulous perusal of the Hearst papers might have guided this critic of our national failings toward complete triumph. In such a volume as this, the only excuse for its being is found either in clever irony or in scintillating wit. Mr. Joad rarely...
...will never penetrate. There are houses where a copy of the Mercury has never been seen; where mint juleps are still to be obtained, but where, on the other hand, the residents have felt not call to assassinate their paster. There may be found the works of Joseph Addison, a social critic who wrote as a gentleman for other gentlemen, and who will be read is such dark corners long after Mr. Mencken has jostled past St. Peter and gone to inspect the boobs of Paradise...
...James Thayer Addison S. T. M. of the Episcopal Theological School, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 8:45 o'clock this morning...