The Works of Joseph Addison Complete in Three Volumes Embracing the Whole of the "Spectator," &c, Volumen2Harper & brothers, 1864 |
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... tell ; but I shall set down the charge as it is laid against me in the following letter . " MADAM , -What happened the other day gives me a lively image of the incon- sistency of human passions and inclinations . We pursue what we are ...
... tell ; but I shall set down the charge as it is laid against me in the following letter . " MADAM , -What happened the other day gives me a lively image of the incon- sistency of human passions and inclinations . We pursue what we are ...
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... tell thee how I hate thy beams , That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell , how glorious once above thy sphere . ' This speech is , I think , the finest that is ascribed to Satan in the whole poem . The evil spirit afterwards ...
... tell thee how I hate thy beams , That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell , how glorious once above thy sphere . ' This speech is , I think , the finest that is ascribed to Satan in the whole poem . The evil spirit afterwards ...
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... tell me about Mr. Froth ; I am sure it is not true . Between twelve and one . Dreamed that Mr. Froth lay at my feet , and called me Indamora . SATURDAY . Rose at eight o'clock in the morning . Sat down to my toilette . From eight to ...
... tell me about Mr. Froth ; I am sure it is not true . Between twelve and one . Dreamed that Mr. Froth lay at my feet , and called me Indamora . SATURDAY . Rose at eight o'clock in the morning . Sat down to my toilette . From eight to ...
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... tell . Á third sort are the tumblers , whose office is to set women on their heads , and commit certain indecencies , or rather bar- barities , on the limbs which they expose . But these I forbear to mention , because they cannot but be ...
... tell . Á third sort are the tumblers , whose office is to set women on their heads , and commit certain indecencies , or rather bar- barities , on the limbs which they expose . But these I forbear to mention , because they cannot but be ...
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... tell you I working aprons , she keeps four French have a healthy , vigorous constitution , a protestants continually employed in mak plentiful estate , no inordinate desires , and ing divers pieces of superfluous furniture , am married ...
... tell you I working aprons , she keeps four French have a healthy , vigorous constitution , a protestants continually employed in mak plentiful estate , no inordinate desires , and ing divers pieces of superfluous furniture , am married ...
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Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance admiration Æneas Æneid agreeable appear beauty body cerning character choly Cicero cities of London consider conversation creature daugh death delight desire discourse divine endeavour entertainment eyes fancy father favour fortune gentleman give hand happy hath hear heart heaven Homer honour hope human humble servant humour husband Iliad imagination Jupiter kind lady learning letter live look looking-glass lover mankind manner marriage married matter ment mind Mohocks nature ness never night obliged observed occasion Ovid pain paper Paradise Lost particular pass passion person pleased pleasure Plutarch poem poet present racter reader reason received Rechteren sense sight soul speak spect Spectator SPECTATOR,-I spirit tell thee thing thou thought tion told town Virg Virgil virtue whig whole woman words writing yard land young
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Página 179 - The Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care : His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Página 317 - tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect...
Página 425 - IT must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well ! — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Página 316 - Farewell ! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him . The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Página 210 - Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Página 72 - Oh, why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest Heaven With Spirits masculine, create at last * This novelty on Earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the World at once With men, as Angels, without feminine; Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
Página 68 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Página 52 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Página 14 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad, In naked majesty seem'd lords of all : And worthy seem'd ; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure (Severe, but in true filial freedom placed), Whence true authority in men...
Página 77 - With what to sight or smell was sweet, from thee How shall I part, and whither wander down Into a lower world, to this obscure And wild ? how shall we breathe in other air Less pure, accustom'd to immortal fruits?