The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection, Volume 5Putnam, 1854 |
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... Character of English Oratory - Use of proper Gestures , 312 409 . Characteristics of Taste , 411. Essays on the Pleasures of the Imagination , • 315 322 412 . 66 66 46 66 " 6 327 413 . 86 66 66 66 66 332 414 . 66 66 66 66 336 415 . 66 ...
... Character of English Oratory - Use of proper Gestures , 312 409 . Characteristics of Taste , 411. Essays on the Pleasures of the Imagination , • 315 322 412 . 66 66 46 66 " 6 327 413 . 86 66 66 66 66 332 414 . 66 66 66 66 336 415 . 66 ...
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... Characters of Tom Puzzle and Will Dry , 459 477 . Letter on Gardening , 462 481. Opinions on the Dispute between Count Rechtern and M. Mesnager , 466 482. Letters from Hen - peckt Husbands - from a Woman mar- ried to a Cotquean , 470 ...
... Characters of Tom Puzzle and Will Dry , 459 477 . Letter on Gardening , 462 481. Opinions on the Dispute between Count Rechtern and M. Mesnager , 466 482. Letters from Hen - peckt Husbands - from a Woman mar- ried to a Cotquean , 470 ...
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... character he is so industrious to advance by it . For though his actions are never so glorious , they lose their lustre when they are drawn at large , and set to show by his own hand ; and as the world is more apt to find fault than to ...
... character he is so industrious to advance by it . For though his actions are never so glorious , they lose their lustre when they are drawn at large , and set to show by his own hand ; and as the world is more apt to find fault than to ...
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... character . A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with a generous neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude , and places a man beyond the little noise and strife of tongues . Accordingly we find in ourselves ...
... character . A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with a generous neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude , and places a man beyond the little noise and strife of tongues . Accordingly we find in ourselves ...
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... and most disadvantageous light . There are many who find a pleasure in contradicting the common reports of fame , and in spreading abroad the weaknesses of an exalted character . eries with a secret pride 10 [ No. 256 . SPECTATOR .
... and most disadvantageous light . There are many who find a pleasure in contradicting the common reports of fame , and in spreading abroad the weaknesses of an exalted character . eries with a secret pride 10 [ No. 256 . SPECTATOR .
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Page 467 - Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet ; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
Page 435 - I have set the Lord always before me: Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: My flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell ; l Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt show me the path of life: In thy presence is fulness of joy ; At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Page 58 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Page 92 - Awake, My fairest, my espoused, my latest found, Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight ! Awake : the morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tended plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Page 142 - And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
Page 40 - Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Page 155 - Our lingering parents, and to the eastern gate Led them direct, and down the cliff as fast To the subjected plain; then disappear'd. They, looking back...
Page 146 - So many grateful altars I would rear Of grassy turf, and pile up every stone Of lustre from the brook, in memory, Or monument to ages ; and thereon Offer sweet-smelling gums, and fruits, and flowers.
Page 134 - Some say, he bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth, twice ten degrees and more, From the sun's axle ; they with labour push'd Oblique the centric globe.
Page 92 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.