The Works of Joseph Addison: The SpectatorG.P. Putnam & Company, 1854 |
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... noble is the fame that is built on candour and ingenuity , according to those beau- tiful lines of Sir John Denham , in his poem on Fletcher's works ! But whither am I stray'd ! I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's ...
... noble is the fame that is built on candour and ingenuity , according to those beau- tiful lines of Sir John Denham , in his poem on Fletcher's works ! But whither am I stray'd ! I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's ...
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... noble and a mean action . Others are apt to attribute them to some false end or intention ; and others purposely misrepresent or put a wrong interpretation on them . But the more to enforce this consideration , we may observe , that ...
... noble and a mean action . Others are apt to attribute them to some false end or intention ; and others purposely misrepresent or put a wrong interpretation on them . But the more to enforce this consideration , we may observe , that ...
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... noble action by so selfish a motive , and to do that out of a desire of fame , which we could not be prompted to by a disinterested love to mankind , or by a generous passion for the glory of him that made us . Thus is fame a thing ...
... noble action by so selfish a motive , and to do that out of a desire of fame , which we could not be prompted to by a disinterested love to mankind , or by a generous passion for the glory of him that made us . Thus is fame a thing ...
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... noble and triumphant merit often breaks through and dissipates these little spots and sullies in its reputation ; but if by a mistaken pursuit after fame , or through human infirmity , any false step be made in the more momentous ...
... noble and triumphant merit often breaks through and dissipates these little spots and sullies in its reputation ; but if by a mistaken pursuit after fame , or through human infirmity , any false step be made in the more momentous ...
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... noble train of actions to preserve his fame in life and motion . For when it is once at a stand , it naturally flags and languishes . Admiration is a very short - lived passion , that immediately decays upon grow- ing familiar with its ...
... noble train of actions to preserve his fame in life and motion . For when it is once at a stand , it naturally flags and languishes . Admiration is a very short - lived passion , that immediately decays upon grow- ing familiar with its ...
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The Works of Joseph Addison: Rosamond; The drummer; Cato. Poemata Joseph Addison Vista completa - 1888 |
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Página 394 - 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 noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Página 455 - I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth : my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt shew me the path of life : in thy presence is fulness of joy ; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Página 437 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. Then said I, "Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
Página 102 - Awake, My fairest, my espoused, my latest found, Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight ! Awake : the morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tended plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Página 69 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Página 68 - 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 645 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Página 419 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys ; Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise : n.
Página 102 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Página 487 - Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet ; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.