The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, a New Ed., with Notes, Volume 2T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811 |
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Page vii
... pleasure in owning obligations which it is an honour to have received , but should I publish any favours done me by your lordship , I am afraid it would look more like vanity than gratitude . I had a very early ambition to recommend ...
... pleasure in owning obligations which it is an honour to have received , but should I publish any favours done me by your lordship , I am afraid it would look more like vanity than gratitude . I had a very early ambition to recommend ...
Page ix
... pleasure and advantage than in Italy . One finds something more particular in the face of the country , and more astonishing in the works of nature , than can be met with in any other part of Eu- rope . It is the great school of music ...
... pleasure and advantage than in Italy . One finds something more particular in the face of the country , and more astonishing in the works of nature , than can be met with in any other part of Eu- rope . It is the great school of music ...
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... pleasure in the food of you , O ye fishes ? Do you think it was by mere chance , that when the Redeemer of the world was to pay tribute to Cæsar , he thought fit to find it in the mouth of a fish ? These are all of them so many ...
... pleasure in the food of you , O ye fishes ? Do you think it was by mere chance , that when the Redeemer of the world was to pay tribute to Cæsar , he thought fit to find it in the mouth of a fish ? These are all of them so many ...
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... pleasures which may be met with on the con- tinent . These disguises give occasion to abundance of love - adventures ; for there is something more intriguing in the amours of Venice , than in those of other coun- tries , and I question ...
... pleasures which may be met with on the con- tinent . These disguises give occasion to abundance of love - adventures ; for there is something more intriguing in the amours of Venice , than in those of other coun- tries , and I question ...
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... pleasure of seeing in it something more singular than can be found in great governments , and form from it an idea of Venice in its first beginnings , when it had only a few heaps of earth for its dominions , or of Rome itself , when it ...
... pleasure of seeing in it something more singular than can be found in great governments , and form from it an idea of Venice in its first beginnings , when it had only a few heaps of earth for its dominions , or of Rome itself , when it ...
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Page 280 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Page 279 - 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 392 - 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 Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 280 - 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 472 - Besides my innumerable sins, I confess before thee, that I am debtor to thee for the gracious talent of thy gifts and graces, which I have neither put into a napkin, nor put it (as I ought) to exchangers, where it might have made best profit, but mis-spent it in things for which I was least fit : so I may truly say, my soul hath been a stranger in the course of my pilgrimage. Be merciful unto me, O Lord, for my Saviour's sake, and receive me unto thy bosom, or guide me in thy ways.
Page 273 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 289 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : 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 79 - Within a long recess there lies a bay : An island shades it from the rolling sea, And forms a port secure for ships to ride : Broke by the jutting land on either side, In double streams the briny waters glide, Betwixt two rows of rocks : a sylvan scene Appears above, and groves for ever green : A grot is form'd beneath, with mossy seats, To rest the Nereids, and exclude the heats.
Page 280 - Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Page 400 - But to consider this subject in its most ridiculous lights, advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the gazette may easily creep into the advertisements, by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.