The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 3Vernor and Hood; John Walker; Cuthell and Martin; W.J. and J. Richardson; Longman and Rees; R. Lea; and J. and A. Arch. ; T. Maiden, printer, Sherbourn-Lane, 1804 |
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... letter to me on this occasion , sets the best face upon the matter that he can , and gives a more tolerable account of his spouse . I must confess I suspected something more than ordinary , when , upon opening 16 NO . 530 . SPECTATOR .
... letter to me on this occasion , sets the best face upon the matter that he can , and gives a more tolerable account of his spouse . I must confess I suspected something more than ordinary , when , upon opening 16 NO . 530 . SPECTATOR .
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... confess my age to thee , I have been eight - and - forty above these twelve years . Since my retirement into the country will make a vacancy in the club , I could wish you would fill up my place with my friend Tom Dapperwit . He has an ...
... confess my age to thee , I have been eight - and - forty above these twelve years . Since my retirement into the country will make a vacancy in the club , I could wish you would fill up my place with my friend Tom Dapperwit . He has an ...
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... confess , though she had many who made their applications to her , I al- ways thought myself the best shoe in her shop ; and it was not till a month before her marriage , that I discovered what I was . This had like to have broke my ...
... confess , though she had many who made their applications to her , I al- ways thought myself the best shoe in her shop ; and it was not till a month before her marriage , that I discovered what I was . This had like to have broke my ...
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... confess , whose objections have given me a greater concern , as they seem to reflect , under this head , rather on my morality than on my inven- tion . These are they who say an author is guilty of falsehood , when he talks to the ...
... confess , whose objections have given me a greater concern , as they seem to reflect , under this head , rather on my morality than on my inven- tion . These are they who say an author is guilty of falsehood , when he talks to the ...
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... quashed the conspiracy of Catiline in the calends of December . How shocking soever this great man's talking of himself might have been to his contemporaries , I must confess I am never better pleased No. 662. % SPECTATOR .
... quashed the conspiracy of Catiline in the calends of December . How shocking soever this great man's talking of himself might have been to his contemporaries , I must confess I am never better pleased No. 662. % SPECTATOR .
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Page 80 - 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 221 - ... With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of Heaven her starry train : But neither breath of Morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds ; nor rising sun On this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew ; nor fragrance, after showers ; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent Night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet.
Page 221 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 214 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 2 - Knowing that you was my old master's good friend, I could not forbear sending you the melancholy news of his death, which has afflicted the whole country, as well as his poor servants, who loved him, I may say, better than we did our lives. I am afraid he caught his death the last county-sessions, where he would go to see justice done to a poor widow woman, and her fatherless children, that had been wronged by a neighbouring gentleman ; for you know, sir, my good master was always the poor man's...
Page 231 - Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Page 196 - Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made Occasionally ; and, to consummate all, Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat Build in her loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard angelic placed.
Page 64 - I did not question came loaded with his crimes; but upon searching into his bundle I found that instead of throwing his guilt from him, he had only laid down his memory.
Page 458 - Thy creatures have been my books, but thy Scriptures much more. I have sought thee in the courts, fields, and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples.
Page 79 - ... material or immaterial, and as intimately present to it as that being is to itself. It would be an imperfection in him, were he able to remove out of one place into another, or to withdraw himself from any thing he has created, or from any part of that space which is diffused and spread abroad to infinity.