AddisonClarendon Press, 1906 - 528 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page xx
... mentioned . Thackeray has kindly and humorously sketched ' poor Dick Steele , ' immersed in all the follies of the town , ' deep in debt and in drink , ' continually sinning and repenting . He commenced the Tatler , as we have seen , in ...
... mentioned . Thackeray has kindly and humorously sketched ' poor Dick Steele , ' immersed in all the follies of the town , ' deep in debt and in drink , ' continually sinning and repenting . He commenced the Tatler , as we have seen , in ...
Page 5
... mentioned widow , he was very serious for a year and a half ; and though , his temper 20 being naturally jovial , he at last got over it , he grew careless of himself , and never dressed afterwards . He continues to wear a coat and ...
... mentioned widow , he was very serious for a year and a half ; and though , his temper 20 being naturally jovial , he at last got over it , he grew careless of himself , and never dressed afterwards . He continues to wear a coat and ...
Page 14
... mention fox hunters with so little respect . ' Captain Sentry spoke very sparingly on this occasion . What 10 he said was only to commend my prudence in not touching upon the army , and advised me to continue to act discreetly in that ...
... mention fox hunters with so little respect . ' Captain Sentry spoke very sparingly on this occasion . What 10 he said was only to commend my prudence in not touching upon the army , and advised me to continue to act discreetly in that ...
Page 17
... mention the military pedant , who always talks in a camp , and is storming towns , making lodgments , and fighting 20 ... mentioned , the book pedant is much the most supportable ; he has at least an exercised understanding , and a head ...
... mention the military pedant , who always talks in a camp , and is storming towns , making lodgments , and fighting 20 ... mentioned , the book pedant is much the most supportable ; he has at least an exercised understanding , and a head ...
Page 20
... mentioned ; and , without staying for my answer , told me that he 10 was afraid of being insulted with Latin and Greek at his own table ; for which reason he desired a particular friend of his at the university to find him out a ...
... mentioned ; and , without staying for my answer , told me that he 10 was afraid of being insulted with Latin and Greek at his own table ; for which reason he desired a particular friend of his at the university to find him out a ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acquainted acrostic Addison admire Æneid Alcibiades anagrams appear audience beautiful behaviour called chearfulness CHEVY CHASE Cicero club consider Constantia conversation creatures death discourse Dryden endeavour English entertainment Enville eternity Eudoxus father Freeport French genius gentleman give greatest hand happy head hear heart honour Hudibras humour infinite Jupiter kind king lady learned letter likewise live look mankind manner Mariamne marriage means Menippus mentioned mind mirth morality nation nature never night observed occasion opera OVID paper particular passage passion person pleased pleasure Plutarch poet present reader reason Rechteren reflexions religion ridicule Roger de Coverley says Shalum shew short Sir Roger Socrates soul Spectator speculations taste Tatler tell Theodosius thing thou thought tion told Tryphiodorus verses VIRG Virgil virtue Whig whole woman words writing written young
Popular passages
Page 202 - 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 460 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Page 458 - 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 384 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus...
Page 395 - Show me now, I beseech thee, the secrets that lie hid under those dark clouds which cover the ocean on the other side of the rock of adamant.' The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing...
Page 28 - Book, and at the same time employed an itinerant singing-master, who goes about the country for that purpose, to instruct them rightly in the tunes of the psalms, upon which they now very much value themselves, and, indeed, outdo most of the country churches that I have ever heard. As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself...
Page 395 - I saw the valley opening at the farther end, and spreading forth into an immense ocean, that had a huge rock of adamant running through the midst of it, and dividing it into two equal parts. The clouds still rested on one half of it, insomuch that 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.
Page 27 - Change, the whole parish politics being generally discussed in that place either after sermon or before the bell rings. My friend Sir Roger, being a good churchman, has beautified the inside of his church with several texts of his own choosing; he has likewise given a handsome pulpit-cloth, and railed in the communion table at his own expense.
Page 152 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me : and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me. Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came 30 upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 144 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome: Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.