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... piece . I have often from this hint imagined to myself , that different talents in discourse might be shadowed out after the same manner by different kinds of music ; and that the 20 several conversable parts of mankind in this great ...
... piece . I have often from this hint imagined to myself , that different talents in discourse might be shadowed out after the same manner by different kinds of music ; and that the 20 several conversable parts of mankind in this great ...
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... piece of money lying on my table , " I defy ( says he ) any of these active persons to produce half the adventures that this twelvepenny piece has been engaged in , were it possible for him to give us an account of his life . " My ...
... piece of money lying on my table , " I defy ( says he ) any of these active persons to produce half the adventures that this twelvepenny piece has been engaged in , were it possible for him to give us an account of his life . " My ...
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... pieces at such times as I shall find myself unprovided with other subjects . The present paper I intend to fill with an extract of Sir John's journal , in which that learned and worthy knight gives an account of the freezing and thawing ...
... pieces at such times as I shall find myself unprovided with other subjects . The present paper I intend to fill with an extract of Sir John's journal , in which that learned and worthy knight gives an account of the freezing and thawing ...
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... pieces in human nature , I shall endeavour to point out all those imperfections that are the blemishes , as well as those virtues which are the ... piece of raillery . Spectator . ] VIII . GHOST STORIES . March 14 32 ESSAYS FROM ADDISON .
... pieces in human nature , I shall endeavour to point out all those imperfections that are the blemishes , as well as those virtues which are the ... piece of raillery . Spectator . ] VIII . GHOST STORIES . March 14 32 ESSAYS FROM ADDISON .
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... pieces in the court , embracing one another as soon as they are out of it . I would not be thought , in any part of this relation , to report upon Signior Nicolini , who in acting this part only complies with the wretched taste of his ...
... pieces in the court , embracing one another as soon as they are out of it . I would not be thought , in any part of this relation , to report upon Signior Nicolini , who in acting this part only complies with the wretched taste of his ...
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Page 68 - The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life ; consider it attentively. Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which, added to those that were entire, made up the number about an hundred.
Page 67 - Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to another, " Surely," said I, " man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Page 68 - But tell me further, said he, what thou discoverest on it. I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it. As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon...
Page 82 - Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow ; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
Page 60 - 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; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself or sends his servants to them.
Page 78 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Page 70 - 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 61 - 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 57 - 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 67 - man is but a shadow and life a dream.' Whilst I was thus musing, I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me, where I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a musical instrument in his hand.