The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, Bind 11804 |
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... gentleman , as any even he could acquire to himself ; and yet is no more than was due from an affection , that justly increased towards him , through the intimacy of several years . I cannot , without the utmost tenderness , reflect on ...
... gentleman , as any even he could acquire to himself ; and yet is no more than was due from an affection , that justly increased towards him , through the intimacy of several years . I cannot , without the utmost tenderness , reflect on ...
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... gentleman of Worces- tershire , of ancient descent , a baronet , his name Sir Roger de Coverley . His great grandfather was inventor of that famous country - dance which is called after him , All who know that shire , are very well ...
... gentleman of Worces- tershire , of ancient descent , a baronet , his name Sir Roger de Coverley . His great grandfather was inventor of that famous country - dance which is called after him , All who know that shire , are very well ...
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... gentleman , had often supped with my Lord Rochester and Sir George Etherege , fought a duel at his first coming to town , and kicked Bully Daw- son in a public coffee - house for calling him young- ster . But being ill used by the above ...
... gentleman , had often supped with my Lord Rochester and Sir George Etherege , fought a duel at his first coming to town , and kicked Bully Daw- son in a public coffee - house for calling him young- ster . But being ill used by the above ...
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... gentleman next in esteem and authority among us , is another bachelor , who is a member of the Inner Temple ; a man of great probity , wit , and understanding ; but he has chosen his place of re- sidence rather to obey the direction of ...
... gentleman next in esteem and authority among us , is another bachelor , who is a member of the Inner Temple ; a man of great probity , wit , and understanding ; but he has chosen his place of re- sidence rather to obey the direction of ...
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... gentleman of great courage , good under- standing , but invincible modesty . He is one of those that deserve very well , but are very aukward at putting their talents within the observation of such as should take . notice of them . He ...
... gentleman of great courage , good under- standing , but invincible modesty . He is one of those that deserve very well , but are very aukward at putting their talents within the observation of such as should take . notice of them . He ...
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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...