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... several satires and panegyrics handed about in acrostic , by which means some of the most 40 arrant undisputed blockheads about the town began to entertain ARTIFICIAL WIT . 321 ambitious thoughts , and to set 320 CRITICAL PAPERS .
... several satires and panegyrics handed about in acrostic , by which means some of the most 40 arrant undisputed blockheads about the town began to entertain ARTIFICIAL WIT . 321 ambitious thoughts , and to set 320 CRITICAL PAPERS .
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... acrostic is nothing but the name or title of a person or thing made out of the initial letters of several verses , and 30 by that means written , after the manner of the Chinese , in a perpendicular line . But besides these , there are ...
... acrostic is nothing but the name or title of a person or thing made out of the initial letters of several verses , and 30 by that means written , after the manner of the Chinese , in a perpendicular line . But besides these , there are ...
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... acrostic fashion , by the initial letters of their chapters , the authorship of their respective works . The acrostic was very popular in England under Elizabeth , but in the seventeenth century was abandoned to poetasters and drawing ...
... acrostic fashion , by the initial letters of their chapters , the authorship of their respective works . The acrostic was very popular in England under Elizabeth , but in the seventeenth century was abandoned to poetasters and drawing ...
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Addison: Selections from Addison's Papers Contributed to the Spectator Joseph Addison Повний перегляд - 1894 |
Addison: Selections from Addison's Papers Contributed to the Spectator Joseph Addison Повний перегляд - 1882 |
Addison: Selections from Addison's Papers Contributed to the Spectator Joseph Addison Повний перегляд - 1886 |
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acquainted acrostic Addison Alcibiades appear atheist beautiful behaviour Ben Jonson body called chearfulness Cicero club consider conversation creatures death desire discourse divine DRYDEN endeavour English entertained Enville eternity faculties father Freeport friend Sir Roger gentleman give greatest hand happiness head heart Honeycomb honour Hudibras humour infinite irreligion kind king knight lady learned letter likewise live look Malebranche mankind manner marriage means mind mirth modesty morality nation nature never observed occasion opera ourselves OVID paper particular party passion perfection person philosopher pleased pleasure Plutarch poet present reader reason Rechteren reflexion religion ridiculous Roger de Coverley says secret shew short Socrates soul Spectator speculations Tatler tells temper Theodosius thing thought tion Titus Oates told VIRG Virgil virtue Whig whole woman women words writing
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Сторінка 210 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Сторінка 403 - The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale of misery, and the tide of water that thou seest is part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other ? What thou seest...
Сторінка 470 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts -with joy.
Сторінка 468 - 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.
Сторінка 12 - 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, 20 Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?
Сторінка 403 - ... 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 of them fell into them. • They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Сторінка 471 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Сторінка 117 - Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate. Our tables are stored with spices and oils and wines. Our rooms are filled with pyramids of China, and adorned with the workmanship of Japan. Our morning's draught comes to us from the remotest corners of the earth. We repair our bodies by the drugs of America, and repose ourselves under Indian canopies. My friend Sir Andrew calls the vineyards of France our gardens; the spice-islands, our hot-beds; the Persians our silk-weavers, and the Chinese...
Сторінка 37 - Mr. such an one, if he pleased, might take the law of him for fishing in that part of the river. My friend Sir Roger heard them both upon a round trot; and after having paused some time, told them, with the air of a man who would not give his judgment rashly, that much might be said on both sides.
Сторінка 20 - found me out this gentleman, who, besides the endowments required of him, is, they tell me, a good scholar, though he does not show it. I have given him the parsonage of the parish ; and, because I know his value, have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than perhaps he thinks he is. He has now been with me thirty years ; and though he does...