The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works, Volume 4Putnam, 1854 |
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... turn of conversation is happily hit off in the " Spectator " for June 12th , 1712 , when a false report of the death of Louis XIV . had reached England : - " Upon my going into Will's I found their discourse was gone off from the death ...
... turn of conversation is happily hit off in the " Spectator " for June 12th , 1712 , when a false report of the death of Louis XIV . had reached England : - " Upon my going into Will's I found their discourse was gone off from the death ...
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... turns ; but the political clubs of the time played an important part in history . The idea of uniting the authors of a periodical in a club - though an obvious one - was calculated to bring out sparkling contrasts of character . But it ...
... turns ; but the political clubs of the time played an important part in history . The idea of uniting the authors of a periodical in a club - though an obvious one - was calculated to bring out sparkling contrasts of character . But it ...
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... turn makes him at once both disinterested and agreeable ; as few of his thoughts are drawn from business , they are most of them fit for conversation . His taste of books is a little too just for the age he lives in ; he has read all ...
... turn makes him at once both disinterested and agreeable ; as few of his thoughts are drawn from business , they are most of them fit for conversation . His taste of books is a little too just for the age he lives in ; he has read all ...
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... turn ; and I find there is not one of the company , but myself , who rarely speak at all , but speaks of him as of that sort of man who here described : but , as in the former instances , the supposition is ill sup- ported . is usually ...
... turn ; and I find there is not one of the company , but myself , who rarely speak at all , but speaks of him as of that sort of man who here described : but , as in the former instances , the supposition is ill sup- ported . is usually ...
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... turns and changes in her constitution . There sate at her feet a couple of secretaries , who received every hour letters from all parts off the world , which the one or the other of them was perpetually reading to her ; and , according ...
... turns and changes in her constitution . There sate at her feet a couple of secretaries , who received every hour letters from all parts off the world , which the one or the other of them was perpetually reading to her ; and , according ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 382 - ... fountains, or resting on beds of flowers: and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments. — Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats; but the genius told me there was no passage to them, except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge. —
Pagina 48 - Shine not in vain ; nor think, though men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise : 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.
Pagina 83 - 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 12 - 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 381 - 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 379 - The genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions with which I approached him. He lifted me from the ground, and taking me by the hand, Mirza, said he, I have heard thee in thy soliloquies ; follow me.
Pagina 381 - 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 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 yet seest anything thou dost not comprehend.' Upon looking up,...
Pagina 2 - I HAVE observed that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Pagina 220 - The stout Earl of Northumberland, A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer's days to take; The chiefest harts in Chevy-Chase To kill and bear away.
Pagina 13 - ... his tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company...