The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Том 3T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811 |
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... letter , I received another upon the same subject ; which , by the date and style of it , I take to be written by some young Templar . • SIR , • Middle Temple , 1710-11 . WHEN a man has been guilty of any vice or folly , I think the ...
... letter , I received another upon the same subject ; which , by the date and style of it , I take to be written by some young Templar . • SIR , • Middle Temple , 1710-11 . WHEN a man has been guilty of any vice or folly , I think the ...
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... letter , desiring me to be very satiri- cal upon the little muff that is now in fashion ; another informs me of a pair of silver garters buckled below the knee , that have been lately seen at the Rainbow Coffee- house , in Fleet ...
... letter , desiring me to be very satiri- cal upon the little muff that is now in fashion ; another informs me of a pair of silver garters buckled below the knee , that have been lately seen at the Rainbow Coffee- house , in Fleet ...
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... letters with private scandal , and black ac- counts of particular persons and families . The world is so full of ill - nature , that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell , and satires composed by those who scarce know how ...
... letters with private scandal , and black ac- counts of particular persons and families . The world is so full of ill - nature , that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell , and satires composed by those who scarce know how ...
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... letter . About two days since I was reproached with an old Grecian law that forbids any man to stand as a neuter or a looker - on in the divisions of his country . However , as I am very sensible my paper would lose its whole effect ...
... letter . About two days since I was reproached with an old Grecian law that forbids any man to stand as a neuter or a looker - on in the divisions of his country . However , as I am very sensible my paper would lose its whole effect ...
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... letters and advertise- ments for the city of London ; and shall think myself very much honored by you , if you will appoint me to take in letters and advertisements for the city of West- minster and the duchy of Lancaster . Though I can ...
... letters and advertise- ments for the city of London ; and shall think myself very much honored by you , if you will appoint me to take in letters and advertisements for the city of West- minster and the duchy of Lancaster . Though I can ...
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Страница 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?
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 373 - The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.