The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works, Volume 4G.P. Putnam & Company, 1854 |
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... reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure , till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man , of a mild or choleric disposition , married or a bachelor , Of the three periodical papers , in which Mr. Addison was happily ...
... reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure , till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man , of a mild or choleric disposition , married or a bachelor , Of the three periodical papers , in which Mr. Addison was happily ...
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... reader , I design this paper and my next as prefatory discourses to my following writings , and shall give some account in them of the several persons that are engaged in this work . As the chief trouble of compiling , digest- ing , and ...
... reader , I design this paper and my next as prefatory discourses to my following writings , and shall give some account in them of the several persons that are engaged in this work . As the chief trouble of compiling , digest- ing , and ...
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... reader just so much of my history and cha- racter , as to let him see I am not altogether unqualified for the business I have undertaken . As for other particulars in my life and adventures , I shall insert them in following papers , as ...
... reader just so much of my history and cha- racter , as to let him see I am not altogether unqualified for the business I have undertaken . As for other particulars in my life and adventures , I shall insert them in following papers , as ...
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... reader in any thing that is reasonable ; but as for these three particulars , though I am sensible they might tend very much to the embellishment of my paper , I cannot yet come to a resolution of communicating them to the public . They ...
... reader in any thing that is reasonable ; but as for these three particulars , though I am sensible they might tend very much to the embellishment of my paper , I cannot yet come to a resolution of communicating them to the public . They ...
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... reader , in Little Britain.1 too carefully chosen . Persons , therefore , whose political opinions and private tastes coincided , made a practice of meeting in clubs . This prin- ciple of congeniality took all manner of odd social turns ...
... reader , in Little Britain.1 too carefully chosen . Persons , therefore , whose political opinions and private tastes coincided , made a practice of meeting in clubs . This prin- ciple of congeniality took all manner of odd social turns ...
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Page 584 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic toe ; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Page 378 - 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.
Page 83 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of" some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Page 380 - 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. further examination, perceived there were innumerable trapdoors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon, but they fell through 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...
Page 379 - The genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions with which I approached him. He lifted me from the ground, and taking me by the hand, Mirza, said he, I have heard thee in thy soliloquies ; follow me.
Page 80 - ... human body. Upon this I began to consider with myself, what innumerable multitudes of people lay confused together under the pavement of that ancient cathedral ; how men and women, friends...
Page 381 - 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 in 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 anything thou dost not comprehend.' Upon looking up,...
Page 220 - The stout Earl of Northumberland, A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer's days to take; The chiefest harts in Chevy-Chase To kill and bear away.
Page 48 - 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...
Page 379 - I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life ; consider it attentively.