 | Mrs. Henry Peterson - 1864 - 908 страници
...stairs. Over the doors, again, wore scenes from Roman history: over tho grate, in letters of gold, ' True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noue.' '• She had soon almost a school. Besides Mdllc. Adelaide d'Orléans, whose twin-sister died... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 страници
...melancholy. A propensity to hope and joy is real riches ; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty. HUME. TRUE happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy...friendship and conversation of a few select companions. Spectator, No. 15. HAPPINESS is the fruit of a man's own care and industry, as it consists in the goodness... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 610 страници
...able to fetch down the most airy coquette from the wildest of her flights and rambles. True hapiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise...the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self j and inrthe next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. It loves shade... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1888 - 548 страници
...coquette from the wildest of Ler nights and rambles. True happiness is of a retired nature, and au enemy to pomp and noise : it arises, in the first...fountains, fields and meadows : in short, it feels everything it wants within itself, and receives no addition from multitudes of witnesses and spectators.... | |
 | 1881 - 946 страници
...poverty. THE desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it, TRUE happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy...from the friendship and conversation of a few select friends. " LET honesty," says Benjamin Franklin, " be as the breath of the soul, and never forget to... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 576 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 10 naturally haunts groves and fountains, fiaids and meadows; in short, it feels everything it wants... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 584 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 10 naturally haunts groves and fountains, fields and meadows; in short, it feels everything it wants... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 566 страници
...from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions: it loves shade and solitude, and 10 naturally haunts groves and fountains, fields and meadows; in short, it feels everything it wants within itself, and receives no addition from multitudes of witnesses and spectators.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 страници
...due to the pleasing labour of the present composition. GIBBON: Decline and Fall, chap, lii., note. 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.... | |
 | william francis ainsworth - 1876 - 732 страници
...human life as it is shown in its different phases will doubtless feel disposed to say with Addison, " True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise." But it is indispensable for one who has been brought to see the worth of true religion, and the emptiness... | |
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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise ; it 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... 
