The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, Bind 11804 |
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Side x
... thought ; and as his hopes of advancement in his own country were fallen with the credit of his friends , who were out of power at the beginning of her late Majesty's reign , he had leisure to make the tour of Ger- many in his way home ...
... thought ; and as his hopes of advancement in his own country were fallen with the credit of his friends , who were out of power at the beginning of her late Majesty's reign , he had leisure to make the tour of Ger- many in his way home ...
Side xi
... thought sufficiently inex- cusable , because it was the composition of an Englishman . The poetry of this piece has given as much pleasure in the closet , as others have af- forded from the stage , with all the assistance of voices and ...
... thought sufficiently inex- cusable , because it was the composition of an Englishman . The poetry of this piece has given as much pleasure in the closet , as others have af- forded from the stage , with all the assistance of voices and ...
Side xii
... thought fit to distinguish his writings in the Spectators and Guardians , by such marks as might remove the least possibility of mistake in the most undiscerning readers . It was neces- sary that his share in the Tatlers should be ad ...
... thought fit to distinguish his writings in the Spectators and Guardians , by such marks as might remove the least possibility of mistake in the most undiscerning readers . It was neces- sary that his share in the Tatlers should be ad ...
Side xiii
... some others , which I thought to have connected in a continued series in this edition ; though they were at first published with the interruption of writings on different subjects . But as such a scheme would b 3 PREFACE . xiii.
... some others , which I thought to have connected in a continued series in this edition ; though they were at first published with the interruption of writings on different subjects . But as such a scheme would b 3 PREFACE . xiii.
Side xiv
... thought the doctrine of liberty very seasonable . It is in every body's memory , with what applause it was received by the public ; that the first run of it lasted for a month ; and then stopped , only because one of the performers ...
... thought the doctrine of liberty very seasonable . It is in every body's memory , with what applause it was received by the public ; that the first run of it lasted for a month ; and then stopped , only because one of the performers ...
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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...