A second selection from the papers of Addison in the Spectator and Guardian, for the use of young persons, by E. Berens1828 - 80 pages |
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... tell me all this is only fancy and delusion ? Is there any merit in being the mes- senger of ill news ? If it is a dream , let me enjoy it , since it makes me both the happier and better man . " I must confess I do not know how to trust ...
... tell me all this is only fancy and delusion ? Is there any merit in being the mes- senger of ill news ? If it is a dream , let me enjoy it , since it makes me both the happier and better man . " I must confess I do not know how to trust ...
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... tell him untruths , for which thou wouldest order any of thy officers of state to re- ceive a hundred blows upon his foot . I do not know how I shall negotiate any thing with this people , since there is so little credit to be given to ...
... tell him untruths , for which thou wouldest order any of thy officers of state to re- ceive a hundred blows upon his foot . I do not know how I shall negotiate any thing with this people , since there is so little credit to be given to ...
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... tell another he whores , drinks , blasphemes , and it may pass unresented ; but to say he lies , though but in jest , is an affront that nothing but blood can expiate . The reason perhaps may be , be- cause no other vice implies a want ...
... tell another he whores , drinks , blasphemes , and it may pass unresented ; but to say he lies , though but in jest , is an affront that nothing but blood can expiate . The reason perhaps may be , be- cause no other vice implies a want ...
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... tell a pleasant story of a French gentleman that visited him early one morning at Paris , and after great professions of respect , let him know that he had it in his power to oblige him ; which , in short , amounted to this , that he ...
... tell a pleasant story of a French gentleman that visited him early one morning at Paris , and after great professions of respect , let him know that he had it in his power to oblige him ; which , in short , amounted to this , that he ...
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... tell her that her sins were forgiven her - that her guilt was not so great as she apprehended - that she should not suffer herself to be afflicted above measure . After which he recovered himself enough to give her the absolution in ...
... tell her that her sins were forgiven her - that her guilt was not so great as she apprehended - that she should not suffer herself to be afflicted above measure . After which he recovered himself enough to give her the absolution in ...
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Page 303 - I was yesterday very much surprised to hear my old friend in the midst of the service calling out to one John Matthews to mind what he was about, and not disturb the congregation. This John Matthews, it seems, is remarkable for being an idle fellow, and at that time was kicking his heels for his diversion.
Page 302 - ... subjects, hear their duties explained to them, and join together in adoration of the Supreme Being. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week, not only as it refreshes in their minds the notions of religion, but as it puts both the sexes upon appearing in their most agreeable forms, and exerting all such qualities as are apt to give them a figure in the eye of the village.
Page 281 - My chief companion, when Sir Roger is diverting himself in the woods or the fields, is a very venerable man, who is ever with Sir Roger, and has lived at his house in the nature of a chaplain above thirty years. This gentleman is a person of good sense, and some learning, of a very regular life, and obliging conversation...
Page 281 - I have observed in several of my papers that my friend Sir Roger, amidst all his good qualities, is something of a humorist ; and that 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...
Page 395 - ... good use of it, and to pay the several legacies, and the gifts of charity, which he told him he had left as quit-rents upon the estate. The captain truly seems a courteous man, though he says but little. He makes much of those whom my master loved, and shows great kindness to the old house-dog, that you know my poor master was so fond of.
Page 279 - HAVING often received an invitation from my friend Sir Roger de Coverley to pass away a month with him in the country...
Page 109 - Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 194 - Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws To cast thee up again! What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Page 184 - Terror and commiseration leave a pleasing anguish in the mind ; and fix the audience in such a serious composure of thought, as is much more lasting and delightful than any little transient starts of joy and satisfaction. Accordingly we find, that more of our English tragedies have succeeded, in which the favourites of the audience sink under their calamities, than those in which they recover themselves out of them.