Selections from the Works of Joseph AddisonH. Holt, 1906 - 360 páginas |
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... received here , and mentions a call made upon him by a prelate who had been imprisoned by the Inquisition , “ a man of Learning and a Virtuoso , but too free a thinker . The very morning he was seized he had done me the honour of a ...
... received here , and mentions a call made upon him by a prelate who had been imprisoned by the Inquisition , “ a man of Learning and a Virtuoso , but too free a thinker . The very morning he was seized he had done me the honour of a ...
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... received from the several members of the 20 learned world . He has a greater esteem for Aldus and Elzevir , than for Virgil and Horace . If you talk of Herodotus , he breaks out into a panegyric upon Harry Stephens . He thinks he gives ...
... received from the several members of the 20 learned world . He has a greater esteem for Aldus and Elzevir , than for Virgil and Horace . If you talk of Herodotus , he breaks out into a panegyric upon Harry Stephens . He thinks he gives ...
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... of horn . Knowing that Tom had 30 not sense enough to give up an opinion which he had once received , that he might 2 avoid wrangling , 2 1710 , that we might . 4 I told him , that Virgil possibly had his THE TATLER . 31.
... of horn . Knowing that Tom had 30 not sense enough to give up an opinion which he had once received , that he might 2 avoid wrangling , 2 1710 , that we might . 4 I told him , that Virgil possibly had his THE TATLER . 31.
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... received 15 five shillings of you , to give you a hundred pounds upon the Great Turk's being driven out of Europe , desired me to acquaint you , that every one of that company would be willing to receive five shillings , to pay a ...
... received 15 five shillings of you , to give you a hundred pounds upon the Great Turk's being driven out of Europe , desired me to acquaint you , that every one of that company would be willing to receive five shillings , to pay a ...
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... received every hour letters from all parts of the world , which the one or the other of them was perpetually reading to her ; and , according to the news she heard , to which she was exceedingly at- tentive , she changed colour , and ...
... received every hour letters from all parts of the world , which the one or the other of them was perpetually reading to her ; and , according to the news she heard , to which she was exceedingly at- tentive , she changed colour , and ...
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Página 206 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Página 81 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow...
Página 170 - ... them into the tide and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Página 331 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age, what would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?
Página 211 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Página 185 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar...
Página 258 - The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. 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 156 - ... than blemish his good qualities. As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side : and every now and then inquires how...
Página xviii - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Página 251 - They that go down to the sea in ships, That do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, And his wonders in the deep. For he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind, Which lifteth up the waves thereof.