Joseph Addison frasi celebri
“La domenica pulisce tutta la ruggine della settimana.”
112
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
The Spectator
dal Guardian del 1713; citato in Ian Watt, Le origini del romanzo borghese
“Niente si può mettere bene in musica che non sia privo di senso.”
18
Nothing is capable of being well set to music, that is not nonsense.
The Spectator
dallo Spectator; citato in Ian Watt, Le origini del romanzo borghese
The Spectator
Joseph Addison: Frasi in inglese
No. 465, Ode (23 August 1712).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
No. 117 (14 July 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
“Young men soon give and soon forget affronts;
Old age is slow in both.”
Joseph Addison libro Cato
Act II, scene v.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
“We are always doing something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.”
No. 587 (20 August 1714).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
Samuel Johnson in The Rambler, no. 50 (8 September 1750); many of Johnson's remarks have been attributed to Addison
Misattributed
No. 1 (1 March 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
“Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow,
And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!”
Joseph Addison libro Cato
Act II, scene i.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
“Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.”
No. 1 (1 March 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
“Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.”
Joseph Addison libro Cato
Act V, scene i.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
“For ever singing as they shine,
The hand that made us is divine.”
Ode.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Joseph Addison libro Cato
Act V, scene i.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
No. 117.
The Guardian (1713)
“Talk not of love: thou never knew'st its force.”
Joseph Addison libro Cato
Act III, scene ii.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
“Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul:
I think the Romans call it Stoicism.”
Joseph Addison libro Cato
Act I, scene iv.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.”
No. 215 (6 November 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
No. 166 (10 September 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
Joseph Addison libro Cato
Act III, scene i.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
No. 249 (15 December 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
Widely quoted as an Addison maxim this is actually by the American clergyman George Washington Burnap (1802-1859), published in Burnap's The Sphere and Duties of Woman : A Course of Lectures (1848), Lecture IV.
Misattributed
Joseph Addison libro Cato
Act I, scene i.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
“Tis not in mortals to command success,
But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.”
Joseph Addison libro Cato
Act I, scene ii.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
" The Life and Teachings of Thoth Hermes Trismegistus http://magdelene.net/Thoth%20Hermes%20Trismegistus.htm", in The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928) by the Canadian occultist Manly Hall; a few quotation websites credit this to Addison. <br class="br">Misattributed
“I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.”
Joseph Addison libro Cato
Act IV, scene iii.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
