Joseph Addison Quotes About Design

Quotes about: Design

• Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in that action, bound themselves to be good-humored, affable, discreet, forgiving, patient, and joyful, with respect to each other's frailties and perfections, to the end of their lives.

  Joseph Addison

  Anniversary, Two, Perfection

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator: A New Edition”, p.583

• An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience.

  Joseph Addison

  Design, Attention, May

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.16

• There is a great amity between designing and art.

  Joseph Addison

  Art, Design, Amity

• We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design of Tragedy is to raise Commiseration and Terror in the Minds of the Audience, we shall defeat this great End, if we always make Virtue and Innocence happy and successful.

  Joseph Addison

  Successful, Men, Evil

  Joseph Addison (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)”, p.5878, Delphi Classics

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