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... into Magdalen College . He em- ployed his first years in the study of the old Greek and Roman writers , whose language and manner he caught at that time of life , as strongly as " other young people gain a French accent , or.
... into Magdalen College . He em- ployed his first years in the study of the old Greek and Roman writers , whose language and manner he caught at that time of life , as strongly as " other young people gain a French accent , or.
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Joseph Addison Thomas Tickell. " other young people gain a French accent , or a genteel air . An early acquaintance with the classics is what may be called the good - breed- ing of poetry , as it gives a certain gracefulness which never ...
Joseph Addison Thomas Tickell. " other young people gain a French accent , or a genteel air . An early acquaintance with the classics is what may be called the good - breed- ing of poetry , as it gives a certain gracefulness which never ...
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... young , the largest is An Account of the greatest English Poets ; in the close of which he insinuates a design he then had of going into holy orders , to which he was strongly importuned by his father . His remark- able seriousness and ...
... young , the largest is An Account of the greatest English Poets ; in the close of which he insinuates a design he then had of going into holy orders , to which he was strongly importuned by his father . His remark- able seriousness and ...
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... young man of learning , than such a bounty from so eminent a patron . How well Mr. Addison answered the expectations of my Lord Somers , cannot appear better , than from the book of Travels he dedicated to his Lord- ship at his return ...
... young man of learning , than such a bounty from so eminent a patron . How well Mr. Addison answered the expectations of my Lord Somers , cannot appear better , than from the book of Travels he dedicated to his Lord- ship at his return ...
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... young at the University , and even attempted something in it there , though not a line as it now stands . The work was performed by him in his travels , and retouched in England , without any formed resolution of bringing it upon the ...
... young at the University , and even attempted something in it there , though not a line as it now stands . The work was performed by him in his travels , and retouched in England , without any formed resolution of bringing it upon the ...
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Página 36 - Shine not in vain ; nor think, though men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise. 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 ? oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk...
Página 159 - ... in separating carefully, one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Página 270 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it, he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself, or sends his servants to them.
Página 338 - I see multitudes of people passing over it", said I, "and a black cloud hanging on each end of it ". As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon...
Página 349 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 196 - They closed full fast on every side, No slackness there was found; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground.
Página 270 - Sometimes he will be lengthening out a verse in the singing psalms, half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it ; sometimes when he is pleased with the matter of his devotion, he pronounces
Página 256 - At his first settling with me, I made him a present of all the good sermons which have been printed in English, and only begged of him that every Sunday he would pronounce one of them in the pulpit. Accordingly, he has digested them into such a series, that they follow one another naturally, and make a continued system of practical divinity.
Página 391 - If I did despise the cause of my manservant, Or of my maidservant, when they contended with me : What then shall I do when God riseth up ? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him ? Did not he that made me in the womb make him ? And did not one fashion us in the womb...
Página 339 - those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants; and among many other feathered...