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Joseph Addison George Washington Greene. ' LIBRARIES ' THE WORKS OF ADDISON . VOL . V. THE SPECTATOR. NIVERSIT SITY THE THE OF MICHIGAN MICHI Dear Sir If you are at hisure I will desire.
Joseph Addison George Washington Greene. ' LIBRARIES ' THE WORKS OF ADDISON . VOL . V. THE SPECTATOR. NIVERSIT SITY THE THE OF MICHIGAN MICHI Dear Sir If you are at hisure I will desire.
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... desire you to enquire in any Bookseller's shop for a statius and to look in the beginning of the Achilleid for a Birds . nest which if I am not mustaden is very finely described It comer in I think by way of simile towards & Beginning ...
... desire you to enquire in any Bookseller's shop for a statius and to look in the beginning of the Achilleid for a Birds . nest which if I am not mustaden is very finely described It comer in I think by way of simile towards & Beginning ...
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... desires after he had forgot this cruel beauty , insomuch that it is reported he has fre- quently offended in point of chastity with beggars and gypsies : but this is looked upon by his friends rather as matter of raillery than truth ...
... desires after he had forgot this cruel beauty , insomuch that it is reported he has fre- quently offended in point of chastity with beggars and gypsies : but this is looked upon by his friends rather as matter of raillery than truth ...
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... desires to form a right judgment of those who are the actors on it . There is another set of men that I must likewise lay a claim to , whom I have lately called the blanks of society , as being alto- gether unfurnished with ideas , till ...
... desires to form a right judgment of those who are the actors on it . There is another set of men that I must likewise lay a claim to , whom I have lately called the blanks of society , as being alto- gether unfurnished with ideas , till ...
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... desire me to keep my word , assure me that it is high time to give over , with many other little pleasantries of the like nature , which men of a little smart genius cannot forbear throwing out against their best friends , when they ...
... desire me to keep my word , assure me that it is high time to give over , with many other little pleasantries of the like nature , which men of a little smart genius cannot forbear throwing out against their best friends , when they ...
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Side 48 - 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.
Side 12 - It is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him.
Side 83 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Side 381 - I could discover nothing in it; but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Side 381 - I observed some with scimitars in their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trap-doors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped, had they not been thus forced upon them. "The genius, seeing me indulge myself in this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it. ' Take thine eyes off the bridge,' said he, ' and tell me if thou yet seest anything thou dost not comprehend.' Upon looking up,...
Side 220 - The stout Earl of Northumberland, A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer's days to take; The chiefest harts in Chevy-Chase To kill and bear away.
Side 289 - ... his virtues, as well as imperfections, are as it were tinged by a certain extravagance, which makes them particularly his, and distinguishes them from those of other men. This cast of mind, as it is generally very innocent in itself, so it renders his conversation highly agreeable, and more delightful than the same degree of sense and virtue would appear in their common and ordinary colours.
Side 6 - Cocoa-tree, and in the theatres both of Drury-lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stockjobbers at Jonathan's.
Side 379 - I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life ; consider it attentively.
Side 302 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.