.. The Tatler. The GuardianPutnam, 1856 |
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... delight to me in this ob- servation is , that all this arises from pure nature , and the colonel can account for his success no more than those by whom he suc- eeeds . For these causes and considerations , I pronounce him a true woman's ...
... delight to me in this ob- servation is , that all this arises from pure nature , and the colonel can account for his success no more than those by whom he suc- eeeds . For these causes and considerations , I pronounce him a true woman's ...
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... delightful sensations , as seemed to animate and raise human nature above itself . This made me very much amazed to find so very few in that innumerable multitude , who had ears fine enough to hear or relish this music with pleasure ...
... delightful sensations , as seemed to animate and raise human nature above itself . This made me very much amazed to find so very few in that innumerable multitude , who had ears fine enough to hear or relish this music with pleasure ...
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... delightful , that the travellers went on with pleasure , and in a little time arrived at the top of the mountain . They here began to breathe a delicious kind of æther , and saw all the fields about them covered with a kind of purple ...
... delightful , that the travellers went on with pleasure , and in a little time arrived at the top of the mountain . They here began to breathe a delicious kind of æther , and saw all the fields about them covered with a kind of purple ...
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... delighted with fables , alle- gories , and the like inventions , which the politest and the best in- structors of mankind have always made use of : they take off from the severity of instruction , and enforce it at the same time that ...
... delighted with fables , alle- gories , and the like inventions , which the politest and the best in- structors of mankind have always made use of : they take off from the severity of instruction , and enforce it at the same time that ...
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... delights , this world of farewell for ever to care , to pain , to business- Come along with pleasure , and bid " Hercules hearing the lady talk after this manner , desired to know her name ; to which she answered , ' My friends , and ...
... delights , this world of farewell for ever to care , to pain , to business- Come along with pleasure , and bid " Hercules hearing the lady talk after this manner , desired to know her name ; to which she answered , ' My friends , and ...
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acquaintance Addison admire Æneid agreeable Ajax Apartment appeared assembly bagpipe beautiful behaviour Bickerstaffe body called Censor character confess court creature Daniel Burgess dead death delight discourse eyes figure French kick gave gentleman give goddess greatest hand hath head hear heard heart heroes Homer honour Hudibras human humour Iphimedia Isaac Bickerstaffe Jupiter kind lady learned likewise lived look mankind manner means mention mind morning Muscovy nature never Nichols's nose November 29 observe occasion Ovid paper particular passed passion person petticoat Plato pleased pleasure Plutarch poet present proper reader reason Roman Censors says Sheer-Lane short silence Sir Richard Steele soul stood Tatler Telemachus tell temple thing thought tion Tiresias told took turn Ulysses Virgil virtue walk whole woman words writing
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Page 100 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 110 - Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Page 100 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird; nor walk by moon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet.
Page 219 - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 343 - The ascending pile Stood fixed her stately height, and straight the doors, Opening their brazen folds discover, wide Within, her ample spaces o'er the smooth And level pavement ; from the arched roof, Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky.
Page 75 - Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made Occasionally ; and, to consummate all, Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat Build in her loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard angelic placed.
Page 303 - ... her branches to the seas and to the floods. The state and bread of the poor and oppressed have been precious in mine eyes ; I have hated all cruelty and hardness of heart; I have, though in a despised weed, procured the good of all men. If any have been my enemies, I thought not of them, neither hath the sun almost set upon my displeasure ; but I have been, as a dove, free from superfluity of maliciousness.
Page 494 - Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection, That aids and strengthens virtue, where it meets her, And imitates her actions, where she is not : It ought not to be sported with.
Page 374 - Ask what I shall give thee. And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
Page 93 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.