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... OPERA LIONS , - 37 X. REFLECTIONS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY , 41 XI . REMARKS ON THE ENGLISH BY THE INDIAN KINGS , 44 XII . FRIENDSHIP , 48 XIII . DREAM OF A PICTURE GALLERY , 52 V 189418 ESSAYS ( Continued ) : XIV . SIR ROGER AT.
... OPERA LIONS , - 37 X. REFLECTIONS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY , 41 XI . REMARKS ON THE ENGLISH BY THE INDIAN KINGS , 44 XII . FRIENDSHIP , 48 XIII . DREAM OF A PICTURE GALLERY , 52 V 189418 ESSAYS ( Continued ) : XIV . SIR ROGER AT.
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... picture of the group of children frightening each other with ghost - stories round the fire , its gentle moralisation , its unaffected piety , and its exquisite quotation from the poet whose popularity Addison did so much to ...
... picture of the group of children frightening each other with ghost - stories round the fire , its gentle moralisation , its unaffected piety , and its exquisite quotation from the poet whose popularity Addison did so much to ...
Сторінка xiv
... pictures and the effect of the moral qualities of the critic upon the popular estimation of a living artist's work . XIV.-XV. Steele had contributed the first sketch of Sir Roger de Coverley to the Spectator ( No. 2 ) . But Addison so ...
... pictures and the effect of the moral qualities of the critic upon the popular estimation of a living artist's work . XIV.-XV. Steele had contributed the first sketch of Sir Roger de Coverley to the Spectator ( No. 2 ) . But Addison so ...
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... picture , wherein all the painters of the age in which it was drawn are represented sitting together in a circle ... pictures with the greatest accuracy , and gave them all those delicate touches which are apt to please the nicest eye ...
... picture , wherein all the painters of the age in which it was drawn are represented sitting together in a circle ... pictures with the greatest accuracy , and gave them all those delicate touches which are apt to please the nicest eye ...
Сторінка 51
... given us a very pretty picture of one of this species in the following epigram : Difficilis , facilis , jucundus , acerbus es idem , Nec tecum possum vivere , nec sine te , In all thy humours , whether grave or mellow , FRIENDSHIP . 51.
... given us a very pretty picture of one of this species in the following epigram : Difficilis , facilis , jucundus , acerbus es idem , Nec tecum possum vivere , nec sine te , In all thy humours , whether grave or mellow , FRIENDSHIP . 51.
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Сторінка 68 - The bridge thou seest, said he, 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, made up the number about an hundred.
Сторінка 67 - Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on 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.
Сторінка 68 - 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...
Сторінка 82 - Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow ; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
Сторінка 60 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself or sends his servants to them.
Сторінка 78 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Сторінка 70 - I could discover nothing in it: but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Сторінка 61 - I was yesterday very much surprised to hear my old friend, in the midst of the service, calling out to one John Matthews to mind what he was about, and not disturb the congregation. This John Matthews it seems is remarkable for being an idle fellow, and at that time was kicking his heels for his diversion.
Сторінка 57 - I have observed in several of my papers that my friend Sir Roger, amidst all his good qualities, is something of a humorist ; and that his virtues, as well as imperfections, are, as it were, tinged by a certain extravagance which makes them particularly his, and distinguishes them from those of other men. This cast of...
Сторінка 67 - man is but a shadow and life a dream.' Whilst I was thus musing, I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me, where I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a musical instrument in his hand.