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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... object , unless it be still fed with fresh dis- coveries , and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of mira- cles rising up to its view . And even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labour under this disadvantage , that ...
... object , unless it be still fed with fresh dis- coveries , and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of mira- cles rising up to its view . And even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labour under this disadvantage , that ...
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... object of desire placed out of the possibility of frui- tion . It may indeed fill the mind for a while with a giddy kind of pleasure , but it is such a pleasure as makes a man restless and un- easy under it ; and which does not so much ...
... object of desire placed out of the possibility of frui- tion . It may indeed fill the mind for a while with a giddy kind of pleasure , but it is such a pleasure as makes a man restless and un- easy under it ; and which does not so much ...
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... object we only find that share of pleasure which it is capable of giving us , but in the loss of it we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears , but to the value our fancies and imaginations set upon it . So ...
... object we only find that share of pleasure which it is capable of giving us , but in the loss of it we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears , but to the value our fancies and imaginations set upon it . So ...
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... object , and a fit conjuncture of circumstances , for the due exercise of it . A state of poverty obscures all the virtues of liberality and munificence . The patience and forti- tude of a martyr or confessor lie concealed in the ...
... object , and a fit conjuncture of circumstances , for the due exercise of it . A state of poverty obscures all the virtues of liberality and munificence . The patience and forti- tude of a martyr or confessor lie concealed in the ...
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... objects on which he is described to have cast his eye , are represented in the most beautiful and lively manner . Now had th ' Almighty father from above , 1 From the pure empyrean where he sits High thron'd above all height , bent down ...
... objects on which he is described to have cast his eye , are represented in the most beautiful and lively manner . Now had th ' Almighty father from above , 1 From the pure empyrean where he sits High thron'd above all height , bent down ...
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action Adam Adam and Eve Addison admired Æneid agreeable allegory ancient angels appear Aristotle beautiful behold character chearfulness circumstances colours consider creation critics death delight described discourse divine DRYDEN earth endeavoured English entertainment Enville epic poem fable fallen angels fame fancy filled give happy head heart heaven Homer ideas Iliad imagination infernal Jupiter kind ladies likewise live look mankind manner Menippus Milton mind Mohocks nature never night noble observed occasion Ovid paper Paradise Lost particular passage passions perfection persons piece pleased pleasure poem poet poetry proper raise reader reason received represented ROSCOMMON Satan says secret sentiments shew sight Sir Roger soul Spectator speech spirit sublime take notice Tatler tells Thammuz thee thing thou thought tion told verse VIRG Virgil virtue whole words writing
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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.