The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 3T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811 |
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... conversation of every table in the room . I appear on Sunday nights at St. James's Coffee - house , and sometimes join the little committee of politics in the inner room , as one who comes there to hear and improve . My face is likewise ...
... conversation of every table in the room . I appear on Sunday nights at St. James's Coffee - house , and sometimes join the little committee of politics in the inner room , as one who comes there to hear and improve . My face is likewise ...
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... conversation . The military part of his life has furnished him with many adventures , in the relation of which he is very agreeable to the company ; for he is never overbearing , though accustomed to com- mand men in the utmost degree ...
... conversation . The military part of his life has furnished him with many adventures , in the relation of which he is very agreeable to the company ; for he is never overbearing , though accustomed to com- mand men in the utmost degree ...
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... conversation among us of a more sedate turn ; and I find there is not one of the company , but myself , who rarely speak at all , but speaks of him as of that sort of man who is usually called a well - bred fine gentleman . To conclude ...
... conversation among us of a more sedate turn ; and I find there is not one of the company , but myself , who rarely speak at all , but speaks of him as of that sort of man who is usually called a well - bred fine gentleman . To conclude ...
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... conversation of any body that addresses himself to them . There are several rooms where the parties may retire , and , if they please , shew their faces by consent . Whispers , squeezes , nods , and embraces , are the innocent freedoms ...
... conversation of any body that addresses himself to them . There are several rooms where the parties may retire , and , if they please , shew their faces by consent . Whispers , squeezes , nods , and embraces , are the innocent freedoms ...
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... conversation . The Hum - Drum Club , of which I was formerly an unworthy member , was made up of very honest gentle- men , of peaceable dispositions , that used to sit together , smoke their pipes , and say nothing till midnight . The ...
... conversation . The Hum - Drum Club , of which I was formerly an unworthy member , was made up of very honest gentle- men , of peaceable dispositions , that used to sit together , smoke their pipes , and say nothing till midnight . The ...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Spectator [no. 162-483 Joseph Addison Visualização integral - 1865 |
The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 162-483 Joseph Addison Visualização integral - 1912 |
The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Spectator [no. 162-483 Joseph Addison Visualização integral - 1854 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
acquainted acrostics admiration Æneid Alcibiades anagrams ancient appear Aristotle audience beautiful behaviour body Castilian Cicero club consider Constantia conversation creatures daugh death delight discourse dress endeavour English entertained Eudoxus fancy father forbear friend Sir Roger genius gentleman give Glaphyra greatest head hear heard heart Herod honour human humour Italian kind king lady laugh letter likewise live look mankind manner Mariamne marriage means mind nation nature neral never night observed occasion opera ordinary OVID paper particular passion person Pindar Plato pleased pleasure poet proper racter reader reason religion renegado ridiculous satire says sense shew short side Socrates soul speak species SPECTATOR speculation tell temper Theodosius thing thou thought tion told town tragedy verse VIRG Virgil virtue Whig whole woman women words writers
Passagens conhecidas
Página 105 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Página 69 - I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Página 39 - 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, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator...
Página 373 - The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Página 8 - It is said, he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him.
Página 324 - 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.
Página 327 - 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.
Página 323 - 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.
Página 6 - I never espoused any party with violence, and am resolved to observe an exact neutrality between the Whigs and Tories, unless I shall be forced to declare myself by the hostilities of either side. In short, I have acted in all the parts of my life as a looker-on, which is the character I intend to preserve in this paper.
Página 334 - Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long ; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.