The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 3T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811 |
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... greatest probity , learning , and good sense , may miscarry . How many men are country curates , that might have made them- selves aldermen of London , by a right improvement of a smaller sum of money than what is usually laid out upon ...
... greatest probity , learning , and good sense , may miscarry . How many men are country curates , that might have made them- selves aldermen of London , by a right improvement of a smaller sum of money than what is usually laid out upon ...
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... greatest excesses I do not trans- gress more than the other half pound ; which , for my health's sake , I do the first Monday in every month . As soon as I find myself duly poised after dinner , I walk till I have perspired five ounces ...
... greatest excesses I do not trans- gress more than the other half pound ; which , for my health's sake , I do the first Monday in every month . As soon as I find myself duly poised after dinner , I walk till I have perspired five ounces ...
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... andrew , as being an excellent mimic , and the greatest droll in the country where he now is . I hope to have this entertainment in a readiness for the next . winter ; and doubt not but it will please more 72 No. 28 . SPECTATOR .
... andrew , as being an excellent mimic , and the greatest droll in the country where he now is . I hope to have this entertainment in a readiness for the next . winter ; and doubt not but it will please more 72 No. 28 . SPECTATOR .
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... greatest variety of hints and mate- rials , and know every thing that passes in the different quarters and divisions , not only of this great city , but of the whole kingdom . My readers , too , have the satis- faction to find , that ...
... greatest variety of hints and mate- rials , and know every thing that passes in the different quarters and divisions , not only of this great city , but of the whole kingdom . My readers , too , have the satis- faction to find , that ...
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... greatest variety of dyes . That part of the library which was designed for the reception of plays and pamphlets , and other loose papers , was enclosed in a kind of square , consisting of one of the prettiest grotesque works that ever I ...
... greatest variety of dyes . That part of the library which was designed for the reception of plays and pamphlets , and other loose papers , was enclosed in a kind of square , consisting of one of the prettiest grotesque works that ever I ...
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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.