The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160H. G. Bohn, 1854 |
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Pagina viii
... pleased to mark with his own hand those Tat are inserted in this edition , and even to point out the writing of which they both were concerned . The plan of the Spectator , as far as it regards t person of the author , and of the ...
... pleased to mark with his own hand those Tat are inserted in this edition , and even to point out the writing of which they both were concerned . The plan of the Spectator , as far as it regards t person of the author , and of the ...
Pagina ix
... pleased to have it dedicated to her ; but as he had de- signed that compliment elsewhere , he found himself obliged by his duty on the one side , and his honour on the other , to send it into the world without any dedication . The fame ...
... pleased to have it dedicated to her ; but as he had de- signed that compliment elsewhere , he found himself obliged by his duty on the one side , and his honour on the other , to send it into the world without any dedication . The fame ...
Pagina 15
... pleased with the office . We waited some time in expectation of the next worthy , who came in with a great retinue of historians , whose names I could not learn , most of them being natives of Carthage . The person thus conducted , who ...
... pleased with the office . We waited some time in expectation of the next worthy , who came in with a great retinue of historians , whose names I could not learn , most of them being natives of Carthage . The person thus conducted , who ...
Pagina 19
... pleased , and enter upon the business . We all stood up in an instant , and Sir Harry filed off from the left very dis- creetly , counter - marching behind the chairs towards the door : after him , Sir Giles in the same manner . The ...
... pleased , and enter upon the business . We all stood up in an instant , and Sir Harry filed off from the left very dis- creetly , counter - marching behind the chairs towards the door : after him , Sir Giles in the same manner . The ...
Pagina 30
... pleased with the figures he gives the two goddeses . Our modern aut represented Pleasure or Vice with an alluring face ing in snakes and monsters : here she appears charms of beauty , though they are all false and and by that means ...
... pleased with the figures he gives the two goddeses . Our modern aut represented Pleasure or Vice with an alluring face ing in snakes and monsters : here she appears charms of beauty , though they are all false and and by that means ...
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Pagina 61 - With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike : Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Pagina 272 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of" some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Pagina 473 - 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 316 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Pagina 416 - How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as Boon as it is created ? Are such abilities made for no purpose ? 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 475 - 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 474 - I observed some with scimitars in their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trap-doors 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 on 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 yet seest any thing thou dost not comprehend.
Pagina 474 - I directed my sight as I was ordered, and {whether or no the good Genius strengthened it with any supernatural force, or dissipated part of the mist that was before too thick for the eye to penetrate) I saw the valley opening at the...
Pagina 270 - When I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable.
Pagina 472 - 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.