[COMPLETE] Life and Writings of Addison by T.B. Macaulay - dc
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Hi Pam,
No worries, that's why I'm here!
Other biographers and critics would do well to follow the advice in his first paragraph about not idolising their subject...
6.35-6.37, p xv fifth line second para
He was entered at Queen’s [heard King’s] College, Oxford…
Wiki says Queen’s as well, so I’m guessing it’s not a printer’s error!
No worries, that's why I'm here!
Other biographers and critics would do well to follow the advice in his first paragraph about not idolising their subject...
6.35-6.37, p xv fifth line second para
He was entered at Queen’s [heard King’s] College, Oxford…
Wiki says Queen’s as well, so I’m guessing it’s not a printer’s error!
Hi Erin,
Section 1 is ready for Spot PL:
18:08
https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/addison_01_macaulay_128kb.mp3
My best,
Pam
Section 1 is ready for Spot PL:
18:08
https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/addison_01_macaulay_128kb.mp3
My best,
Pam
"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm."
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Hi Erin,
Section 2 is ready for PL:
20:27
https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/addison_02_macaulay_128kb.mp3
My best,
Pam
Section 2 is ready for PL:
20:27
https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/addison_02_macaulay_128kb.mp3
My best,
Pam
"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm."
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Hi Pam,
Sections 1 and 2 are PL OK. Literary bun fights are as old as time itself!
Erin
Sections 1 and 2 are PL OK. Literary bun fights are as old as time itself!
Erin
Hi Erin,
Section 3 is up:
19:26
https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/addison_03_macaulay_128kb.mp3
Boileau had translated "On the Sublime" by Longinus into French and I think this meeting influenced Addison to take the literary sublime to the next level (grandeur, as when we view the pantheon.) You'll remember how Burke expanded it to encompass the safe terror we feel when looking over an alpine precipice, and how Kant elevated the sublime to our sense of the ineffable in contemplating the infinite heavens.
My best,
Pam
Section 3 is up:
19:26
https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/addison_03_macaulay_128kb.mp3
Boileau had translated "On the Sublime" by Longinus into French and I think this meeting influenced Addison to take the literary sublime to the next level (grandeur, as when we view the pantheon.) You'll remember how Burke expanded it to encompass the safe terror we feel when looking over an alpine precipice, and how Kant elevated the sublime to our sense of the ineffable in contemplating the infinite heavens.
My best,
Pam
"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm."
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Hi Pam,
Section 3 is PL OK. I hadn't thought of that, but you may very well be right!
Erin
Section 3 is PL OK. I hadn't thought of that, but you may very well be right!
Erin
Hi Erin,
Section 4 is up:
17:18
https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/addison_04_macaulay_128kb.mp3
The famous lines from "The Campaign," which Macaulay thought too familiar to quote:
"So when an Angel by Divine Command
With rising Tempests shakes a guilty Land,
Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past,
Calm and Serene he drives the furious Blast;
And pleas'd th'Almighty's Orders to perform,
Rides in the Whirl-wind, and directs the Storm."
My best,
Pam
Section 4 is up:
17:18
https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/addison_04_macaulay_128kb.mp3
The famous lines from "The Campaign," which Macaulay thought too familiar to quote:
"So when an Angel by Divine Command
With rising Tempests shakes a guilty Land,
Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past,
Calm and Serene he drives the furious Blast;
And pleas'd th'Almighty's Orders to perform,
Rides in the Whirl-wind, and directs the Storm."
My best,
Pam
"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm."
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
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- Joined: February 17th, 2015, 7:22 am
Hi Pam,
Section 4 is PL OK. Thank you for the extract!
Erin
Section 4 is PL OK. Thank you for the extract!
Erin
Hi Erin,
Section 5 is up:
19:10
https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/addison_05_macaulay_128kb.mp3
My best,
Pam
Section 5 is up:
19:10
https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/addison_05_macaulay_128kb.mp3
My best,
Pam
"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm."
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson