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, Band 4Putnam, 1854 |
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... figure were he not a rich man ) he calls the sea the British Com- mon . He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts , and will tell you it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms ; for true power is to be got by ...
... figure were he not a rich man ) he calls the sea the British Com- mon . He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts , and will tell you it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms ; for true power is to be got by ...
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... figure , es- pecially 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 ...
... figure , es- pecially 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 ...
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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 Æolus . 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 Æolus . The great heaps of gold , on either ...
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... figure I made , after having done all this mischief . patched my dinner as soon as I could , with my usual tacitur- nity ; when , to my utter confusion , the lady seeing me quitting my knife and fork , and laying them across one another ...
... figure I made , after having done all this mischief . patched my dinner as soon as I could , with my usual tacitur- nity ; when , to my utter confusion , the lady seeing me quitting my knife and fork , and laying them across one another ...
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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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Seite 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. —
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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,...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...