The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, المجلد 11804 |
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الصفحة v
... verses , in the hands of Dr. Lancaster , then Dean of that house , occasioned his 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 ...
... verses , in the hands of Dr. Lancaster , then Dean of that house , occasioned his 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 ...
الصفحة vii
... verses to Mr. Dryden , with a view particularly to his translations . This was soon followed by a version of the fourth Georgic of Virgil , of which Mr. Dryden makes very ho- nourable mention in the postscript to his own translation of ...
... verses to Mr. Dryden , with a view particularly to his translations . This was soon followed by a version of the fourth Georgic of Virgil , of which Mr. Dryden makes very ho- nourable mention in the postscript to his own translation of ...
الصفحة ix
... verses that were made upon their banks ; and the Alps and Appennines are made commentators on those authors to whom they were subjects so many centuries ago . Next to personal conversation with the writers them- selves , this is the ...
... verses that were made upon their banks ; and the Alps and Appennines are made commentators on those authors to whom they were subjects so many centuries ago . Next to personal conversation with the writers them- selves , this is the ...
الصفحة xviii
... ; especially since I shall want all the patience of the reader , for having enlarged it with the fol- lowing verses . to to sug das gais blog od ubs M 100 to TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE Earl of Warwick , &. xviii PREFACE .
... ; especially since I shall want all the patience of the reader , for having enlarged it with the fol- lowing verses . to to sug das gais blog od ubs M 100 to TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE Earl of Warwick , &. xviii PREFACE .
الصفحة xix
... verse that real woe inspires : Grief unaffected suits but ill with art , Or flowing numbers with a bleeding heart . Can I forget the dismal night , that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave ! How silent did his old companions ...
... verse that real woe inspires : Grief unaffected suits but ill with art , Or flowing numbers with a bleeding heart . Can I forget the dismal night , that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave ! How silent did his old companions ...
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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...