 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...do of colors. — Horace Mann. There is even a happiness that makes the heart afraid. — Hood. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to...friendship and conversation of a few select companions. — Addison. Happiness is neither within us nor without us ; it is in the union of ourselves with God.... | |
 | Gustav Gottheil - Jewish religious literature - 1896 - 504 pages
...vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. — Ecclesiastes ii. IO, II. happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp...fountains, fields and meadows ; in short, it feels everything it wants within itself and receives no addition from multitudes of witnesses and spectators.... | |
 | A. Meserole - English essays - 1896 - 450 pages
...from the wildest of her flights and rambles. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an en — emy to pomp and noise ; it arises, in the first place...few select companions : it loves shade and solitude, antf naturally haunts groves and fountains, fields and' meadows : in short, it feels everything it... | |
 | Bradnock Hall - Fishing - 1897 - 290 pages
...man, The best condition'd and unwearied spirit In doing courtesies." Merchant of Venice. MS39QQ8 True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to...friendship and conversation of a few select companions. . . . ADDISON. But, O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!... | |
 | John Scott Clark - American literature - 1898 - 910 pages
...pretty, thought that Addison's tendency was too feminine." — Edmund Gosse. ILLUSTRATIONS. " True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp...groves and fountains, fields and meadows ; in short, it feeb everything it wants within itself, and receives no addition from multitudes of witnesses and spectators."... | |
 | Costume - 1831 - 364 pages
...gaze on human power, on human genius, and read to both the lesson of human frailty. HAPPINESS. TRUE happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises in the first place from an enjoyment of one's self; and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1901 - 208 pages
...displayed, are able to fetch down the most airy coquette from the wildest of her flights and rambles. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to...fountains, fields and meadows ; in short, it feels everything it wants within itself, and receives no addition from multitudes of witnesses and spectators.... | |
 | Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 478 pages
...nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of oneself, and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation...fountains, fields and meadows; in short, it feels everything it wants within itself, and receives no addition from multitudes of witnesses and spectators.... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - American essays - 1900 - 476 pages
...displayed, are able to fetch down the most airy coquette from the wildest of her flights and rambles. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to...arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of oneself, and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions; it loves... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 474 pages
...displayed, are able to fetch down the most airy coquette from the wildest of her flights and rambles. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to...arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of oneself, and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions; it loves... | |
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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise : it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self; and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. 
