Select Essays of Addison: Together with Macaulay's Essay on Addison's Life and WritingsAllyn and Bacon, 1892 - 320 pagina's |
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... of each of the orations of Demosthenes and Tully ; but not one case in the reports of our own courts . No one ever took him for a fool , but none , except his intimate friends , know he has 6 Select Essays of Addison .
... of each of the orations of Demosthenes and Tully ; but not one case in the reports of our own courts . No one ever took him for a fool , but none , except his intimate friends , know he has 6 Select Essays of Addison .
Pagina 10
... serious points as the dress and equipage of persons of quality , proper subjects for raillery . He was going on , when Sir Andrew Freeport took 10 Select Essays of Addison . Members of the Club discuss the Spectator's papers.
... serious points as the dress and equipage of persons of quality , proper subjects for raillery . He was going on , when Sir Andrew Freeport took 10 Select Essays of Addison . Members of the Club discuss the Spectator's papers.
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... took him . up short , and told him that the papers he hinted at had done great good in the city , and that all their wives and daughters were the better for them ; and further added , that the whole city thought themselves very much ...
... took him . up short , and told him that the papers he hinted at had done great good in the city , and that all their wives and daughters were the better for them ; and further added , that the whole city thought themselves very much ...
Pagina 12
... took a dislike to his gray hairs , and another to his black , till by their picking out what each of them had an aversion to , ' they left his head altogether bald and naked . While I was thus musing with myself , my worthy friend the ...
... took a dislike to his gray hairs , and another to his black , till by their picking out what each of them had an aversion to , ' they left his head altogether bald and naked . While I was thus musing with myself , my worthy friend the ...
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... took that he came so readily back according to order ; whether he passed by such a ground ; if the old man who rents it is in good health ; or whether he gave Sir Roger's love to him , or the like . One might , on this occasion ...
... took that he came so readily back according to order ; whether he passed by such a ground ; if the old man who rents it is in good health ; or whether he gave Sir Roger's love to him , or the like . One might , on this occasion ...
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Select Essays of Addison: Together with Macaulay's Essay on Addison's Life ... Joseph Addison Volledige weergave - 1892 |
Select Essays of Addison: Together with Macaulay's Essay on Addison's Life ... Joseph Addison Volledige weergave - 1893 |
Select Essays of Addison: Together with Macaulay's Essay on Addison's Life ... Joseph Addison Volledige weergave - 1893 |
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Pagina 311 - Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires, Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Pagina 155 - Mirza, habitations worth contending for ? Does life appear miserable that gives thee opportunities of earning such a reward ? Is death to be feared that will convey thee to so happy an existence ? Think not man was made in vain, who has such an eternity reserved for him.
Pagina 216 - HOW are thy servants blest, O Lord, How sure is their defence ! Eternal wisdom is their guide, Their help, omnipotence.
Pagina 216 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The Moon takes up the wondrous tale; And nightly, to the listening Earth, Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets, in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Pagina 14 - Roger, amidst all his good qualities, is something of a humorist; and that his virtues, as well as imperfections, are as it were tinged by a certain extravagance, which makes them particularly his, and distinguishes them from those of other men. This cast of mind, as it is generally very innocent in itself, so it renders his conversation highly agreeable, and more delightful than the same degree of sense and virtue would appear in their common and ordinary colours.
Pagina xviii - Whether this might proceed from a law-suit which was then depending in the family, or my father's being a justice of the peace, I cannot determine; for I am not so vain as to think it presaged any dignity that I should arrive at in my future life, though that was the interpretation which the neighborhood put upon it.
Pagina 206 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Pagina xix - 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...
Pagina 153 - I observed some with scimitars in their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trapdoors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped had they not been thus forced upon them. The genius seeing me indulge myself in this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it. " Take thine eyes off the bridge," said he, " and tell me if thou seest anything thou dost not comprehend." Upon looking up, "What mean...
Pagina 192 - IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy, would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.