FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   588   589   590   591   592   593   594   595   596   597   598   599   600   601   602   603   604   605   606   607   608   609   610   611   612  
613   614   615   616   617   618   619   620   621   622   623   624   625   626   627   628   629   630   631   632   633   634   635   636   637   >>   >|  
ven in the original Lapp, and in a rendering of Scheffers Latin less conventionally polished than that published by the Spectator, which is Ambrose Philipss translation of a translation. In the Oxford translation there were six stanzas of this kind: With brightest beams let the Sun shine On Orra Moor. Could I be sure That from the top o' th' lofty Pine I Orra Moor might see, I to his highest Bough would climb, And with industrious Labour try Thence to descry My Mistress if that there she be. Could I but know amidst what Flowers Or in what Shade she stays, The gaudy Bowers, With all their verdant Pride, Their Blossoms and their Sprays, Which make my Mistress disappear; And her in envious Darkness hide, I from the Roots and Beds of Earth would tear. In the same chapter another song is given of which there is a version in No. 406 of the Spectator.] * * * * * No. 367. Thursday, May 1, 1712. Addison. '--Periturae parcite chartae.' Juv. I have often pleased my self with considering the two kinds of Benefits which accrue to the Publick from these my Speculations, and which, were I to speak after the manner of Logicians, I would distinguish into the Material and the Formal. By the latter I understand those Advantages which my Readers receive, as their Minds are either improv'd or delighted by these my daily Labours; but having already several times descanted on my Endeavours in this Light, I shall at present wholly confine my self to the Consideration of the former. By the Word Material I mean those Benefits which arise to the Publick from these my Speculations, as they consume a considerable quantity of our Paper Manufacture, employ our Artisans in Printing, and find Business for great Numbers of Indigent Persons. Our Paper-Manufacture takes into it several mean Materials which could be put to no other use, and affords Work for several Hands in the collecting of them, which are incapable of any other Employment. Those poor Retailers, whom we see so busy in every Street, deliver in their respective Gleanings to the Merchant. The Merchant carries them in Loads to the Paper-Mill, where they pass thro' a fresh Set of Hands, and give life to another Trade. Those who have Mills on their Estates, by this means considerably raise their Rents, and the whole Nation is in a great measure supply'd w
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   588   589   590   591   592   593   594   595   596   597   598   599   600   601   602   603   604   605   606   607   608   609   610   611   612  
613   614   615   616   617   618   619   620   621   622   623   624   625   626   627   628   629   630   631   632   633   634   635   636   637   >>   >|  



Top keywords:

translation

 

Mistress

 
Speculations
 

Material

 
Publick
 

Benefits

 

Manufacture

 

Merchant

 

Spectator

 

descanted


Endeavours

 
present
 

consume

 

wholly

 
confine
 
Consideration
 
improv
 

Nation

 

measure

 
supply

Labours
 

considerable

 

Estates

 

delighted

 
considerably
 
receive
 

collecting

 

Gleanings

 

incapable

 

affords


carries
 

Employment

 

Retailers

 

respective

 

deliver

 

Street

 

Business

 

Printing

 

Artisans

 
employ

Numbers

 
Materials
 
Indigent
 

Persons

 

quantity

 
highest
 

industrious

 
Labour
 

Flowers

 
amidst