The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, المجلد 11804 |
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الصفحة v
... being elected into Magdalen College . He em- ployed his first years in the study of the old Greek and Roman writers , whose language and manner he caught at that time of life , as strongly as " other young people gain a French accent , or.
... being elected into Magdalen College . He em- ployed his first years in the study of the old Greek and Roman writers , whose language and manner he caught at that time of life , as strongly as " other young people gain a French accent , or.
الصفحة vii
... language of a country that possessed the Roman genius in so eminent a degree . The first English performance made public by him , is a short copy of verses to Mr. Dryden , with a view particularly to his translations . This was soon ...
... language of a country that possessed the Roman genius in so eminent a degree . The first English performance made public by him , is a short copy of verses to Mr. Dryden , with a view particularly to his translations . This was soon ...
الصفحة x
... language of the country which is the subject of this poem . The materials for the Dialogues upon Medals , now first printed from a manuscript of the author , were collected in the native country of those coins . The book itself was ...
... language of the country which is the subject of this poem . The materials for the Dialogues upon Medals , now first printed from a manuscript of the author , were collected in the native country of those coins . The book itself was ...
الصفحة xiv
... languages of Christendom . The translation of it into Italian , by Signior Salvini , is very well known ; but I have not been able to learn , whether that of Signior Valetta , a young Neapolitan nobleman , has ever been made public . If ...
... languages of Christendom . The translation of it into Italian , by Signior Salvini , is very well known ; but I have not been able to learn , whether that of Signior Valetta , a young Neapolitan nobleman , has ever been made public . If ...
الصفحة xvi
... languages . The scheme for the Treatise upon the Christian Religion was formed by the author about the end of the late Queen's reign ; at which time he care- fully perused the ancient writings which furnish the materials for it . His ...
... languages . The scheme for the Treatise upon the Christian Religion was formed by the author about the end of the late Queen's reign ; at which time he care- fully perused the ancient writings which furnish the materials for it . His ...
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الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 196 - They closed full fast on every side, No slackness there was found; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground.
الصفحة 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
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...