Selections From Addison's Papers in the Spectator

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Excerpt from Selections From Addison's Papers in the Spectator: Essay on Addison Pallida mors oequo pulsat pede paupentm tabernas Regumque turret, O beate Sexti! Vita summa brevis spem nos vetat inchoate longam. Jam, te premet nox, fabulaque manes, Et domus exilis Plutonia. Hon. Od. i. 4. 13. With equal foot, rich friend, impartial Fate Knocks at the cottage, and the palace gate: Life's span forbids thee to extend thy cares, And stretch thy hopes beyond thy years: Night soon will seize, and you must quickly go To storied ghosts, and Pluto's house below. Creech. When I am in a serious humor, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey, where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.