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... entertainments for such an humanity and benevolence of temper , I have ever delighted in reading the history of ages past , which draws together into a narrow compass the great occurrences and events that are but thinly sown in those ...
... entertainments for such an humanity and benevolence of temper , I have ever delighted in reading the history of ages past , which draws together into a narrow compass the great occurrences and events that are but thinly sown in those ...
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... entertainment of that day , and placed myself in a box which was prepared for me with great civility and dis- tinction . It is said of Virgil , when he entered a Roman 1 N. B. A person dressed for Isaac Bickerstaffe did appear at the ...
... entertainment of that day , and placed myself in a box which was prepared for me with great civility and dis- tinction . It is said of Virgil , when he entered a Roman 1 N. B. A person dressed for Isaac Bickerstaffe did appear at the ...
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... entertainment of common readers . 2 This way of paganizing a future state , was unavoidable in the plan of Telemachus , as it also was in that of Fontenelle's Dialogues . But it was something to be serious in his paganism . Thus much ...
... entertainment of common readers . 2 This way of paganizing a future state , was unavoidable in the plan of Telemachus , as it also was in that of Fontenelle's Dialogues . But it was something to be serious in his paganism . Thus much ...
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... entertainment as an enchantress finds when she fancies herself in a wood , or upon a mountain , at a feast , or a solemnity ; though at the same time she has never stirred out of her cottage . " Your simile , madam , ( says Sir Timothy ...
... entertainment as an enchantress finds when she fancies herself in a wood , or upon a mountain , at a feast , or a solemnity ; though at the same time she has never stirred out of her cottage . " Your simile , madam , ( says Sir Timothy ...
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... entertainment from the country , as it revives in their memories those charming descriptions with which such authors do frequently abound.1 I was thinking of the foregoing beautiful simile in Milton , and applying it to myself , when I ...
... entertainment from the country , as it revives in their memories those charming descriptions with which such authors do frequently abound.1 I was thinking of the foregoing beautiful simile in Milton , and applying it to myself , when I ...
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The Works of ... Joseph Addison, with Notes by R. Hurd Joseph Addison Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
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acquainted acrostics admire Æneid æther agreeable anagrams appear Aristotle audience beautiful behaviour Bickerstaffe body called Chimæra Cicero club confess court creatures death delight discourse dress endeavour English entertainment face figure forbear genius gentleman give goddess greatest hand head hear heard heart hero honour Hudibras humour Isaac Bickerstaffe Italian Julius Cæsar Jupiter kind King lady learned letter likewise live look mankind manner means mind Muscovy nation nature never night observed occasion opera OVID paper particular passed passion person petticoat Plato pleased pleasure poet present proper racters reader reason ridicule Roman Censors says sense short Sir Richard Steele Sir Roger soul stood tell temper thou thought tion told tragedy turally turned verses VIRG Virgil virtue walk Whig whole woman women words writing young
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Página 63 - With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike : Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Página 63 - But neither breath of Morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds ; nor rising sun On this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew ; nor fragrance, after showers ; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent Night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet.
Página 228 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Página 501 - But tell me further, said he, what thou discoverest on it. 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 71 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Página 500 - I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a little musical instrument in his hand. As I looked upon him he applied it to his lips, and began to play upon it. The sound of it was exceeding sweet, and wrought into a variety of tunes, that were inexpressibly melodious, and altogether different from anything I had ever heard.
Página 284 - 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.
Página 500 - I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said is human life ; consider it attentively. Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which added to those that were entire...
Página 259 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep: All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Beth day and night.
Página 328 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.