 | Greg Dening - History - 1994 - 470 pages
...moral philosophy. Joseph Addison had helped make it so as 'the spectator' in The Spectator. 'I live in the World rather as a Spectator of Mankind, than as one of the Species.' 'I have acted all the Parts of my life as a Looker-On.' Irony was the enlightened's trope, the spectator's... | |
 | Dario Castiglione, Lesley Sharpe - History - 1995 - 266 pages
...speech because he does not want to be looked at. He exercises influence by hints and example. He lives 'in the world rather as a spectator of mankind, than as one of the species'. The Smithian spectator is a highly articulated member of the species who is ever in dialogue with other... | |
 | Jonathan Baldo - Drama - 1996 - 228 pages
...cluster of people I always mix with them, though I never open my lips but in my own club. Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than...artisan, without ever meddling with any practical part of life.44 The mention of the theaters immediately suggests to Addison the theatrical metaphor. At... | |
 | Greg Dening - History - 1996 - 332 pages
...moral philosophy. Joseph Addison had helped make it so as 'The Spectator' in The Spectator. 'I live in the World rather as a Spectator of Mankind, than as one of the Species'. 'I have acted all the Parts of my life as a Looker-On' (Marshall 1986: 9). Irony was the enlightened... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - History - 1997 - 613 pages
...and comment on the life and times of eighteenth-century London and England. Addison wrote: 'I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.' What emerges as important is, therefore, a point of view, an attitude, rather than a committed engagement... | |
 | Greg Dening - History - 1998 - 268 pages
...Age of Enlightenment was both an act of worldly-wise theatre and an exhilarating idealism. '1 live in the World rather as a Spectator of Mankind, than as one of the Species', wrote Joseph Addison. 'I have entered all the Parts of my life as a LookerOn.' Irony was the enlightened's... | |
 | Peter Cosgrove - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 300 pages
...Spectator is still a useful guide to the characteristics and functions of this fictional type: Thus I live in the World, rather as a Spectator of Mankind, than...myself a Speculative Statesman, Soldier, Merchant and Artizan, without ever medling with any Practical Part in Life. I am very well versed in the Theory... | |
 | Stewart Justman - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 180 pages
...species,- by which means I have made my self a speculative statesman, soldier, merchant and artizan, without ever meddling with any practical part in life. I am very well versed in the theory of an husband, or a father, and can discern the errors in the oeconomy, business, and diversion of others,... | |
 | Richard A. Barney - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 442 pages
...developments. In his introductory remarks to the journal's first issue, Addison anonymously claims: "I live in the World, rather as a Spectator of Mankind, than as one of the Species. ... I have acted in all the Parts of my Life as a Lookeron, which is the Character I intend to preserve... | |
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In short, wherever I see a cluster of people, I always mix with them, though I never open my lips but in my own club. Thus I live in the -world, rather as a spectator of mankind, than as one of the species... 
