The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Band 3T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811 |
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... figure , especially in a military way , must get over all false modesty , and assist his patron against the importunity of other pretenders , by a proper assurance in his own vindication . He says it is a civil cowardice to be backward ...
... figure , especially in a military way , must get over all false modesty , and assist his patron against the importunity of other pretenders , by a proper assurance in his own vindication . He says it is a civil cowardice to be backward ...
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... figure as the bags that were really filled with money , had been blown up with air , and called into my memory the bags full of wind , which Homer tells us his hero received as a present from Eolus . The great heaps of gold , on either ...
... figure as the bags that were really filled with money , had been blown up with air , and called into my memory the bags full of wind , which Homer tells us his hero received as a present from Eolus . The great heaps of gold , on either ...
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... figure I made , after having done all this mischief . I dispatched my dinner as soon as I could , with my usual taciturnity ; when , to my utter confusion , the lady seeing me quitting my knife and fork , and laying them across one ...
... figure I made , after having done all this mischief . I dispatched my dinner as soon as I could , with my usual taciturnity ; when , to my utter confusion , the lady seeing me quitting my knife and fork , and laying them across one ...
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... figure of a coronet on the back part of it . I was so transported with the thought of such an amour , that I plied her from one room to another with all the gallantries I could invent ; and at length brought things to so happy an issue ...
... figure of a coronet on the back part of it . I was so transported with the thought of such an amour , that I plied her from one room to another with all the gallantries I could invent ; and at length brought things to so happy an issue ...
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... figure of a tree , or the shaking of a bull - rush . The truth of it is , I look upon a sound imagination as the greatest blessing of life , next to a clear judgment and a good conscience . In the mean time , since there are very few ...
... figure of a tree , or the shaking of a bull - rush . The truth of it is , I look upon a sound imagination as the greatest blessing of life , next to a clear judgment and a good conscience . In the mean time , since there are very few ...
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Seite 105 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Seite 69 - I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Seite 39 - 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. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator...
Seite 373 - The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Seite 8 - 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.
Seite 324 - 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.
Seite 327 - 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.
Seite 323 - 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.
Seite 6 - I never espoused any party with violence, and am resolved to observe an exact neutrality between the Whigs and Tories, unless I shall be forced to declare myself by the hostilities of either side. In short, I have acted in all the parts of my life as a looker-on, which is the character I intend to preserve in this paper.
Seite 334 - Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long ; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.