| Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 страници
...displayed, are able to fetch down the most airy coquette from the wildest of her flights and rambles. hreaten'd, nor from the Holy One of heaven Refrain'd...who is hurried on by »uch precipitate passions, as it wants within itself, and receives no addition from multitudes of witnesses and spectators. On the... | |
| Henry Davis - 1844 - 224 страници
...qualifications, as they contributed to advance the pleasure and sentiments of the company.— [No. 280.] 19 True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy...arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's-self ; and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions: it... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1864 - 1126 страници
...consist? in the multiplicity of nprceabte consciousness.*' — Johnson. Addison's derinitiou is ; " True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy...the next, from the friendship and conversation of a lev select companions . . . In short, it feels everything it wants within it«elf, and receives no... | |
| Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 страници
...the rate of one sand in a thousand years : which of these two cases would you make your choice ? 31. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy...fields and meadows ; in short, it feels every thing it wants within itself, and receives no addition from multitudes of witnesses and spectators. On the... | |
| Maxims - 1852 - 242 страници
...solitude, if we escape the example of bad men, we likewise want the counsel and conversation of the good. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy...friendship and conversation of a few select companions. He who sets up for forgiving all injuries, will have nothing else to do. He who appears to be weak,... | |
| Spectator The - 1853 - 594 страници
...displayed, are able to fetch down the most airy coquette from the wildest of her flights and rambles. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy...fields and meadows: in short, it feels every thing it wants within itself, and receives no addition from multitudes of witnesses and spectators. On the... | |
| Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 страници
...since very few great ones, alas ! are let on long leases. — Sharp. HAPPINESS, TRUE AND FALSE. — True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy...fountains, fields and meadows : in short, it feels everything it wants within itself, and receives no addition from multitudes of witnesses and spectators.... | |
| 1853 - 524 страници
...displayed, are able to fetch down the most airy coquette from the wildest of her flights and rambles. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy...select companions; it loves shade and solitude, and natuially haunts groves and fountains, fields and meadows; in short, it feels everything it wants within... | |
| 1853 - 756 страници
...the wildest of her flights and rambles. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pump and noise ; it arises, in the first place from the...friendship and conversation of a few select companions : it lores shade and solitude, and naturally haunts groves and fountains, fields and meadows : in short,... | |
| Spectator The - 1853 - 1118 страници
...displayed, are able to fetch down the most airy coquette from the wildest of her flights and rambles. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy...arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one s self; and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions ; it loves... | |
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