The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160H. G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... mention , in the postscript to his own tran lation of all Virgil's works ; wherein I have often wonder that he did not at the same time acknowledge his obligati to Mr. Addison , for giving him the Essay upon the Georgi prefixed to Mr ...
... mention , in the postscript to his own tran lation of all Virgil's works ; wherein I have often wonder that he did not at the same time acknowledge his obligati to Mr. Addison , for giving him the Essay upon the Georgi prefixed to Mr ...
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... mention asunder , while either our language or story subsist , were not afraid of making this preface too tedious ; especial since I shall want all the patience of the reader , for havi enlarged it with the following verses . R ...
... mention asunder , while either our language or story subsist , were not afraid of making this preface too tedious ; especial since I shall want all the patience of the reader , for havi enlarged it with the following verses . R ...
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... mention Isaac Bickerstaff ; but those of the upper end received it with disdain , and said , if they must have a British worthy , they would have Robin Hood . While I was transported with the honour that was done me , and burning with ...
... mention Isaac Bickerstaff ; but those of the upper end received it with disdain , and said , if they must have a British worthy , they would have Robin Hood . While I was transported with the honour that was done me , and burning with ...
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... mention this cudgelling part of the stor design to engage the secular arm in matters of this but certainly , if it ever exerts itself in affairs of opi speculation , it ought to do it on such shallow 50 ADDISON'S WORKS .
... mention this cudgelling part of the stor design to engage the secular arm in matters of this but certainly , if it ever exerts itself in affairs of opi speculation , it ought to do it on such shallow 50 ADDISON'S WORKS .
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... mention co Madam Frances- I did not care for hearing a Car tale , and therefore thought myself seasonably interru a young gentleman who appeared in the behalf of man , and prayed an arrest of judgment ; for that he young man held ...
... mention co Madam Frances- I did not care for hearing a Car tale , and therefore thought myself seasonably interru a young gentleman who appeared in the behalf of man , and prayed an arrest of judgment ; for that he young man held ...
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Сторінка 473 - Examine now, said he, this sea that is bounded with darkness at both ends, and tell me what thou discoverest in it. I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide.
Сторінка 316 - 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.
Сторінка 416 - How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as Boon as it is created ? Are such abilities made for no purpose ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Сторінка 475 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.
Сторінка 474 - 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 on 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 any thing thou dost not comprehend.
Сторінка 474 - I directed my sight as I was ordered, and {whether or no the good Genius strengthened it with any supernatural force, or dissipated part of the mist that was before too thick for the eye to penetrate) I saw the valley opening at the...
Сторінка 270 - When I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable.
Сторінка 472 - I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.