The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 3T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811 |
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Pagina 18
... able entertainment for the winter season , the opera of Rinaldo is filled with thunder and lightning , illumina- tions and fire - works ; which the audience may look upon without catching cold , and indeed without much danger of being ...
... able entertainment for the winter season , the opera of Rinaldo is filled with thunder and lightning , illumina- tions and fire - works ; which the audience may look upon without catching cold , and indeed without much danger of being ...
Pagina 24
... able to furnish him with , and therefore shall make no apology for them . TO THE SPECTATOR , & c . " SIR , I AM one of the directors of the society for the re- formation of manners , and therefore think myself a pro- per person for your ...
... able to furnish him with , and therefore shall make no apology for them . TO THE SPECTATOR , & c . " SIR , I AM one of the directors of the society for the re- formation of manners , and therefore think myself a pro- per person for your ...
Pagina 25
... able to acquaint you with the predominant vice of every market - town in the whole island . I can tell you the progress that virtue has made in all our cities , boroughs , and corporations ; and know as well the evil practices that are ...
... able to acquaint you with the predominant vice of every market - town in the whole island . I can tell you the progress that virtue has made in all our cities , boroughs , and corporations ; and know as well the evil practices that are ...
Pagina 35
... able to keep up the spirit of a paper which I oblige myself to furnish every day but to make them easy in this particular , I will promise them faithfully to give it over as soon as I grow dull . This I know will be matter of great ...
... able to keep up the spirit of a paper which I oblige myself to furnish every day but to make them easy in this particular , I will promise them faithfully to give it over as soon as I grow dull . This I know will be matter of great ...
Pagina 38
... able to shake off when they are in years . I have known a soldier that has entered a breach , affrighted at his own shadow ; and look pale upon a little scratching at his door , who the day before had marched up against a battery of ...
... able to shake off when they are in years . I have known a soldier that has entered a breach , affrighted at his own shadow ; and look pale upon a little scratching at his door , who the day before had marched up against a battery of ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 105 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Pagina 69 - I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Pagina 39 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator...
Pagina 373 - The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Pagina 8 - It is said, he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him.
Pagina 324 - Examine now, said he, this sea that is bounded with darkness at both ends, and tell me what thou discoverest in it. I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide.
Pagina 327 - The Genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me ; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating; but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.
Pagina 323 - I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.
Pagina 6 - I never espoused any party with violence, and am resolved to observe an exact neutrality between the Whigs and Tories, unless I shall be forced to declare myself by the hostilities of either side. In short, I have acted in all the parts of my life as a looker-on, which is the character I intend to preserve in this paper.
Pagina 334 - Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long ; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.