The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works, Հատոր 4G.P. Putnam & Company, 1854 |
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... conversation of every table in the room . I appear on Sunday nights at St. James's Coffee - house , and sometimes ... conversation till midnight . Here you will see blue and green ribbons and stars familiarly , and talking with the same ...
... conversation of every table in the room . I appear on Sunday nights at St. James's Coffee - house , and sometimes ... conversation till midnight . Here you will see blue and green ribbons and stars familiarly , and talking with the same ...
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... conversation . His taste of books is a little too just for the age he lives in ; he has read all , but approves of very few . His familiarity with the customs , manners , actions , and writings of the ancients , makes him a very ...
... conversation . His taste of books is a little too just for the age he lives in ; he has read all , but approves of very few . His familiarity with the customs , manners , actions , and writings of the ancients , makes him a very ...
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... conversation among us of a more sedate turn ; and I find there is not one of the company , but myself , who rarely speak at all , but speaks of him as of that sort of man who here described : but , as in the former instances , the ...
... conversation among us of a more sedate turn ; and I find there is not one of the company , but myself , who rarely speak at all , but speaks of him as of that sort of man who here described : but , as in the former instances , the ...
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... conversation of any body that address himself to them . There are several rooms where the parties ma retire , and , if they please , shew their faces by consent . ' Whispers , squeezes , nods , and embraces , are the innocen freedoms of ...
... conversation of any body that address himself to them . There are several rooms where the parties ma retire , and , if they please , shew their faces by consent . ' Whispers , squeezes , nods , and embraces , are the innocen freedoms of ...
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... conversation . The Hum - Drum Club , of which I was formerly an unworthy member , was made up of very honest gentlemen , of peaceable dispositions , that used to sit together , smoke their pipes , and say nothing till midnight . The Mum ...
... conversation . The Hum - Drum Club , of which I was formerly an unworthy member , was made up of very honest gentlemen , of peaceable dispositions , that used to sit together , smoke their pipes , and say nothing till midnight . The Mum ...
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Էջ 584 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic toe ; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Էջ 378 - the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, Surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Էջ 83 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of" some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Էջ 380 - 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. further examination, perceived there were innumerable trapdoors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon, but they fell through 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...
Էջ 379 - The genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions with which I approached him. He lifted me from the ground, and taking me by the hand, Mirza, said he, I have heard thee in thy soliloquies ; follow me.
Էջ 80 - ... human body. Upon this I began to consider with myself, what innumerable multitudes of people lay confused together under the pavement of that ancient cathedral ; how men and women, friends...
Էջ 381 - I observed some with scimitars in their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trap-doors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped, had they not been thus forced upon them. "The genius, seeing me indulge myself in this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it. ' Take thine eyes off the bridge,' said he, ' and tell me if thou yet seest anything thou dost not comprehend.' Upon looking up,...
Էջ 220 - The stout Earl of Northumberland, A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer's days to take; The chiefest harts in Chevy-Chase To kill and bear away.
Էջ 48 - 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...
Էջ 379 - I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life ; consider it attentively.