The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volumen3T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811 |
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... ideas , till the business and conversation of the day has supplied them . I have often considered these poor souls with an eye of great commiseration , when I have heard them asking the first man they have met with , whether there was ...
... ideas , till the business and conversation of the day has supplied them . I have often considered these poor souls with an eye of great commiseration , when I have heard them asking the first man they have met with , whether there was ...
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... do honor to the living as well as to the dead . As a foreigner Accounts , which - Monuments , which . is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance F 2 No. 26 . 67 SPECTATOR . Upon my going into the church, I entertained myself ...
... do honor to the living as well as to the dead . As a foreigner Accounts , which - Monuments , which . is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance F 2 No. 26 . 67 SPECTATOR . Upon my going into the church, I entertained myself ...
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Joseph Addison Richard Hurd. is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance or politeness of a nation , from the turn of their public monuments and inscriptions , they should be submitted to the perusal of men of learning and genius ...
Joseph Addison Richard Hurd. is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance or politeness of a nation , from the turn of their public monuments and inscriptions , they should be submitted to the perusal of men of learning and genius ...
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... ideas , they are not able to read it over to themselves without laughing . These poor gentlemen endeavour to gain themselves the reputation of wits and humourists , by such monstrous conceits as almost qualify them for Bedlam ; not ...
... ideas , they are not able to read it over to themselves without laughing . These poor gentlemen endeavour to gain themselves the reputation of wits and humourists , by such monstrous conceits as almost qualify them for Bedlam ; not ...
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... ideas of the persons that speak . The ordinary method of making an hero , is to clap a huge plume of feathers upon his head , which rises so very high , that there is often a greater length from his chin to the top of his head , than to ...
... ideas of the persons that speak . The ordinary method of making an hero , is to clap a huge plume of feathers upon his head , which rises so very high , that there is often a greater length from his chin to the top of his head , than to ...
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Página 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?
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 373 - The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.