The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, Bind 11804 |
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Side 144
... acrostic , by which means some of the most arrant undisputed blockheads about the town began to entertain ambitious thoughts , and to set up for po- lite authors . I shall therefore describe at length those many arts of false wit , in ...
... acrostic , by which means some of the most arrant undisputed blockheads about the town began to entertain ambitious thoughts , and to set up for po- lite authors . I shall therefore describe at length those many arts of false wit , in ...
Side 146
... Acrostic land ; There may'st thou wings display , and altars raise , And torture one poor word a thousand ways . I This fashion of false wit was revived by several poets of the last age , and in particular may be met with among Mr ...
... Acrostic land ; There may'st thou wings display , and altars raise , And torture one poor word a thousand ways . I This fashion of false wit was revived by several poets of the last age , and in particular may be met with among Mr ...
Side 153
... Acrostic was probably invented about the same time with the anagram , though it is impossible to decide whether the inventor of the one or the other were the greater blockhead . The simple acrostic is nothing but the name or title of a ...
... Acrostic was probably invented about the same time with the anagram , though it is impossible to decide whether the inventor of the one or the other were the greater blockhead . The simple acrostic is nothing but the name or title of a ...
Side 154
... acrostics , when the prin- cipal letters stand two or three deep . I have seen some of them where the verses have not only been edged by a name at each extremity , but have had the same name running down like a seam through the middle ...
... acrostics , when the prin- cipal letters stand two or three deep . I have seen some of them where the verses have not only been edged by a name at each extremity , but have had the same name running down like a seam through the middle ...
Side 159
... Acrostics handed about the town with great secrecy and applause ; to which I must also add a little epi- gram called the Witch's Prayer , that fell into verse when it was read either backward or forward , ex- NO . 61 . 159 SPECTATOR .
... Acrostics handed about the town with great secrecy and applause ; to which I must also add a little epi- gram called the Witch's Prayer , that fell into verse when it was read either backward or forward , ex- NO . 61 . 159 SPECTATOR .
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Side 36 - Shine not in vain ; nor think, though men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise. 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 ? oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk...
Side 159 - ... in separating carefully, one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Side 270 - 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.
Side 338 - 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...
Side 349 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Side 196 - They closed full fast on every side, No slackness there was found; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground.
Side 270 - Sometimes he will be lengthening out a verse in the singing psalms, half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it ; sometimes when he is pleased with the matter of his devotion, he pronounces
Side 256 - At his first settling with me, I made him a present of all the good sermons which have been printed in English, and only begged of him that every Sunday he would pronounce one of them in the pulpit. Accordingly, he has digested them into such a series, that they follow one another naturally, and make a continued system of practical divinity.
Side 391 - If I did despise the cause of my manservant, Or of my maidservant, when they contended with me : What then shall I do when God riseth up ? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him ? Did not he that made me in the womb make him ? And did not one fashion us in the womb...
Side 339 - those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants; and among many other feathered...