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Pagina xi
... says Macaulay , " as we can conceive him , clad in his dressing- gown , and freed from his wig , stepping from his parlour at Chelsea into his trim little garden , with the account of the Everlasting Club , or the Loves of Hilpa and ...
... says Macaulay , " as we can conceive him , clad in his dressing- gown , and freed from his wig , stepping from his parlour at Chelsea into his trim little garden , with the account of the Everlasting Club , or the Loves of Hilpa and ...
Pagina xiii
... says Macaulay , " the templar , the clergyman , the soldier , 1 Courthope , Addison , English Men of Letters Series , pp . 87 , 8 . 2 Essay on Addison . and the merchant , were uninteresting figures , fit only INTRODUCTION . xiii.
... says Macaulay , " the templar , the clergyman , the soldier , 1 Courthope , Addison , English Men of Letters Series , pp . 87 , 8 . 2 Essay on Addison . and the merchant , were uninteresting figures , fit only INTRODUCTION . xiii.
Pagina xix
... say that " whoever wishes to attain an English style , familiar but not coarse , and elegant but not ostentatious , must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison . " He must do so , however , with a contented foreknowledge ...
... say that " whoever wishes to attain an English style , familiar but not coarse , and elegant but not ostentatious , must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison . " He must do so , however , with a contented foreknowledge ...
Pagina 2
... say , that my parts were solid , and would wear well . I had not been long at the university , before I distinguished myself by a most profound silence : for , during the space of eight years , excepting in the public exercises of the ...
... say , that my parts were solid , and would wear well . I had not been long at the university , before I distinguished myself by a most profound silence : for , during the space of eight years , excepting in the public exercises of the ...
Pagina 8
... says that England may be richer than other kingdoms , by as plain methods as he himself is richer than other men ; though at the same time I can say this of him , that there is not a point in the compass , but blows home a ship in which ...
... says that England may be richer than other kingdoms , by as plain methods as he himself is richer than other men ; though at the same time I can say this of him , that there is not a point in the compass , but blows home a ship in which ...
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Pagina 79 - 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 76 - Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which added to those that were entire made up the number about an hundred.
Pagina 21 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.
Pagina 21 - ... though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy; and can therefore take , a view of nature, in her deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones.
Pagina 75 - 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 4 - I am very well versed in the theory of a husband or a father, and can discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversion of others better than those who are engaged in them — as standers-by discover blots which are apt to escape those who are in the game.
Pagina 7 - His notions of trade are noble and generous, and (as every rich man has usually some sly way of jesting which would make no great figure were he not a rich man) he calls the sea the British Common. He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms, for true power is to be got by arts and industry. He will often argue, that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation, — and if another,...
Pagina 56 - ... venerable man in the pulpit, but I very much approved of my friend's insisting upon the qualifications of a good aspect and a clear voice; for I was so charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and delivery, as well as with the discourses he pronounced, that I think I never passed any time more to my satisfaction. A sermon repeated after this manner, is like the composition of a poet in the mouth of a graceful actor.
Pagina 77 - End, and spreading forth into an immense Ocean, that had a huge Rock of Adamant running through the Midst of it, and dividing it into two equal parts. The Clouds still rested on one Half of it, insomuch that I could discover nothing in it: But the other appeared to me a vast Ocean planted with innumerable Islands, that were covered with Fruits and Flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining Seas that ran among them.
Pagina 76 - As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge into the great tide that flowed underneath it; and upon. further examination, perceived there were innumerable trapdoors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon, but they fell through them into the tide, and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many...