Selections from the Writings of Joseph AddisonGinn, 1905 - 346 Seiten |
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... soon be called a knave as a fool , and I believe most people would be rather thought to want legs than brains . But I suppose whatever we said in the heat of discourse is not the real opinion we have of each other , since otherwise you ...
... soon be called a knave as a fool , and I believe most people would be rather thought to want legs than brains . But I suppose whatever we said in the heat of discourse is not the real opinion we have of each other , since otherwise you ...
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... doubtful works . That it is unquestionably Addison's appears as soon as one examines the " Ordo commis- sionum Philologicarum in Encaniis prædictis " which follows the title - page : " I. Johan . Pelling Incept . in Art . xlvii.
... doubtful works . That it is unquestionably Addison's appears as soon as one examines the " Ordo commis- sionum Philologicarum in Encaniis prædictis " which follows the title - page : " I. Johan . Pelling Incept . in Art . xlvii.
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... Soon as her fleets appear , their terrors cease , 149 150 And all the northern world lies hush'd in peace . Th ' ambitious Gaul beholds with secret dread Her thunder aim'd at his aspiring head , And fain her godlike sons wou'd disunite ...
... Soon as her fleets appear , their terrors cease , 149 150 And all the northern world lies hush'd in peace . Th ' ambitious Gaul beholds with secret dread Her thunder aim'd at his aspiring head , And fain her godlike sons wou'd disunite ...
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... Soon as soft vernal breezes warm the sky , Britannia's colours in the zephyrs fly ; Her Chief already has his march begun , Crossing the provinces himself had won , ' Till the Moselle , appearing from afar , Retards the progress of the ...
... Soon as soft vernal breezes warm the sky , Britannia's colours in the zephyrs fly ; Her Chief already has his march begun , Crossing the provinces himself had won , ' Till the Moselle , appearing from afar , Retards the progress of the ...
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... soon as the victorious host he spies , From hill to hill , from stream to stream he flies : Such dire impressions in his heart remain Of MARLBRO'S sword , and Hocstet's fatal plain : 400 In vain Britannia's mighty chief besets Their ...
... soon as the victorious host he spies , From hill to hill , from stream to stream he flies : Such dire impressions in his heart remain Of MARLBRO'S sword , and Hocstet's fatal plain : 400 In vain Britannia's mighty chief besets Their ...
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Seite 60 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven, to inhabit among Men; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and in CoffeeHouses.
Seite 153 - Cast thy eyes eastward, said he, and tell me what thou seest. I see, said I, a huge valley, and a prodigious tide of water rolling through it. The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale of misery ; and the tide of water that thou seest, is part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason...
Seite 159 - A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Seite 11 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Seite 47 - 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.
Seite 319 - cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer, "why I could act as well as he myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Seite 50 - He is very ready at that sort of discourse with which men usually entertain women. He has all his life dressed very well, and remembers habits as others do men. He can smile when one speaks to him, and laughs easily. He knows the history of every mode...
Seite 12 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Seite 47 - But being ill-used by the above-mentioned widow, he was very serious for a year and a half ; and though, his temper being naturally jovial, he at last got over it, he grew careless of himself, and never dressed afterwards. He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that were in fashion at the time of his repulse...
Seite 155 - Look no more, said he, on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it.