AddisonClarendon Press, 1875 - 528 pages |
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Page xii
... present itself , thanks to his official position , a chance which his racy Irish humour might improve to his permanent advantage . Many other papers , — weekly , tri - weekly , or daily , were being circulated in town ; it was the year ...
... present itself , thanks to his official position , a chance which his racy Irish humour might improve to his permanent advantage . Many other papers , — weekly , tri - weekly , or daily , were being circulated in town ; it was the year ...
Page xvii
... present day , who love to ' flesh their maiden sword ' upon their friends in a similar fashion . As for Will Honeycomb , the man about town , the elderly rake , the fop à bonnes fortunes , who after boasting of fancied encouragement ...
... present day , who love to ' flesh their maiden sword ' upon their friends in a similar fashion . As for Will Honeycomb , the man about town , the elderly rake , the fop à bonnes fortunes , who after boasting of fancied encouragement ...
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... present selection . ' The plan of the Spectator , so far as it regards the feigned person of the author , and of the several characters that compose his club , was concerted [ by Addison ] in concert with Sir Richard Steele . ' So ...
... present selection . ' The plan of the Spectator , so far as it regards the feigned person of the author , and of the several characters that compose his club , was concerted [ by Addison ] in concert with Sir Richard Steele . ' So ...
Page xxiv
... present editor to disturb the method and form in which an author of genius may have chosen to communicate his thoughts to the world ; and if the original order of publication had anything of design about it , or possessed any sort of ...
... present editor to disturb the method and form in which an author of genius may have chosen to communicate his thoughts to the world ; and if the original order of publication had anything of design about it , or possessed any sort of ...
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... present work . It must have been a trouble to many lovers of Addison to have to hunt through the volumes of the Spectator , or painfully to search an index , in order to discern the full and perfect lineaments , as he designed to trace ...
... present work . It must have been a trouble to many lovers of Addison to have to hunt through the volumes of the Spectator , or painfully to search an index , in order to discern the full and perfect lineaments , as he designed to trace ...
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Page 210 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 403 - The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale of misery, and the tide of water that thou seest is part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other ? What thou seest...
Page 470 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts -with joy.
Page 468 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 12 - 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, 20 Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?
Page 403 - ... them into the tide, and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. • They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Page 471 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Page 117 - Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate. Our tables are stored with spices and oils and wines. Our rooms are filled with pyramids of China, and adorned with the workmanship of Japan. Our morning's draught comes to us from the remotest corners of the earth. We repair our bodies by the drugs of America, and repose ourselves under Indian canopies. My friend Sir Andrew calls the vineyards of France our gardens; the spice-islands, our hot-beds; the Persians our silk-weavers, and the Chinese...
Page 37 - Mr. such an one, if he pleased, might take the law of him for fishing in that part of the river. My friend Sir Roger heard them both upon a round trot; and after having paused some time, told them, with the air of a man who would not give his judgment rashly, that much might be said on both sides.
Page 20 - found me out this gentleman, who, besides the endowments required of him, is, they tell me, a good scholar, though he does not show it. I have given him the parsonage of the parish ; and, because I know his value, have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than perhaps he thinks he is. He has now been with me thirty years ; and though he does...