The Life and Writings of Addison

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Excerpt from The Life and Writings of Addison: With Notes and AppendixNO one can read Macaulay's Essays without being struck by his fascinating ease of style, his vast eru dition and prodigious memory. So strong was his memory that he seldom forgot anything that he either read or heard, he had therefore vast stores of know ledge from which to illustrate his meaning, enforce his argument, and delight his reader.Some of his illustrations and allusions, however, are rather abstruse and not easily understood by all readers.The cursory reader indeed is often carried away by the style of his author and is content to run on from page to page without understanding every allusion: to such a reader this edition may or may not be useful. To the painstaking student, who has the time, the inclination, and the library at command to do for him self the work that has been done by the editor, this little book will be worse than useless, and the editor assures all such students that they cannot do better than work out their difficulties in their own way. But to the careful reader that has only a limited supply of books and not very much time to spare on abstruse allusions, this annotated edition will perhaps prove helpful and be more or less welcome.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.