Selections from the Writings of Joseph AddisonGinn, 1905 - 346 páginas |
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... turn my ravish'd eyes , Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise , Poetick fields encompass me around , And still I seem to tread on Classic ground ; 3 1 Pascal , Pensées sur la religion , chap . ii ( “ Marques de la véritable ...
... turn my ravish'd eyes , Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise , Poetick fields encompass me around , And still I seem to tread on Classic ground ; 3 1 Pascal , Pensées sur la religion , chap . ii ( “ Marques de la véritable ...
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... Turn to it once a day , and read , in the order of their appear- ance , one paper at a time . A fortnight of such daily inter- course with the Spectator as was the delight of London in the time of Queen Anne will teach you more about ...
... Turn to it once a day , and read , in the order of their appear- ance , one paper at a time . A fortnight of such daily inter- course with the Spectator as was the delight of London in the time of Queen Anne will teach you more about ...
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... turn my ravish'd eyes , Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise , Poetick fields encompass me around , And still I seem to tread on Classic ground ; For here the Muse so oft her Harp has strung , That not a mountain rears its head ...
... turn my ravish'd eyes , Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise , Poetick fields encompass me around , And still I seem to tread on Classic ground ; For here the Muse so oft her Harp has strung , That not a mountain rears its head ...
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... turn their eyes , On her resolves the western world relies , Confiding still , amidst its dire alarms , In ANNA's councils , and in CHURCHILL'S arms . Thrice happy Britain , from the kingdoms rent , To sit the guardian of the continent ...
... turn their eyes , On her resolves the western world relies , Confiding still , amidst its dire alarms , In ANNA's councils , and in CHURCHILL'S arms . Thrice happy Britain , from the kingdoms rent , To sit the guardian of the continent ...
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... turn , Demand alliance , and in friendship burn ; A sudden friendship , while with stretch'd - out rays They meet each other , mingling blaze with blaze . Polish'd in courts , and harden'd in the field , Renown'd for conquest , and in ...
... turn , Demand alliance , and in friendship burn ; A sudden friendship , while with stretch'd - out rays They meet each other , mingling blaze with blaze . Polish'd in courts , and harden'd in the field , Renown'd for conquest , and in ...
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Página 60 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven, to inhabit among Men; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and in CoffeeHouses.
Página 153 - Cast thy eyes eastward, said he, and tell me what thou seest. I see, said I, a huge valley, and a prodigious tide of water rolling through it. The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale of misery ; and the tide of water that thou seest, is part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason...
Página 159 - A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Página 11 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Página 47 - 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.
Página 319 - cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer, "why I could act as well as he myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Página 50 - He is very ready at that sort of discourse with which men usually entertain women. He has all his life dressed very well, and remembers habits as others do men. He can smile when one speaks to him, and laughs easily. He knows the history of every mode...
Página 12 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Página 47 - But being ill-used by the above-mentioned widow, he was very serious for a year and a half ; and though, his temper being naturally jovial, he at last got over it, he grew careless of himself, and never dressed afterwards. He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that were in fashion at the time of his repulse...
Página 155 - Look no more, said he, on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it.