The Works of Joseph Addison: The SpectatorG. P. Putnam & Company, 1854 |
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... noble is the fame that is built on candour and ingenuity , according to those beau- tiful lines of Sir John Denham , in his poem on Fletcher's works ! But whither am I stray'd ! I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's ...
... noble is the fame that is built on candour and ingenuity , according to those beau- tiful lines of Sir John Denham , in his poem on Fletcher's works ! But whither am I stray'd ! I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's ...
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... noble and a mean action . Others are apt to attribute them to some false end or intention ; and others purposely misrepresent or put a wrong interpretation on them . But the more to enforce this consideration , we may observe , that ...
... noble and a mean action . Others are apt to attribute them to some false end or intention ; and others purposely misrepresent or put a wrong interpretation on them . But the more to enforce this consideration , we may observe , that ...
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... noble action by so selfish a motive , and to do that out of a desire of fame , which we could not be prompted to by a disinterested love to mankind , or by a generous passion for the glory of him that made us . Thus is fame a thing ...
... noble action by so selfish a motive , and to do that out of a desire of fame , which we could not be prompted to by a disinterested love to mankind , or by a generous passion for the glory of him that made us . Thus is fame a thing ...
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... noble and triumphant merit often breaks through and dissipates these little spots and sullies in its reputation ; but if by a mistaken pursuit after fame , or through human infirmity , any false step be made in the more momentous ...
... noble and triumphant merit often breaks through and dissipates these little spots and sullies in its reputation ; but if by a mistaken pursuit after fame , or through human infirmity , any false step be made in the more momentous ...
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... noble train of actions to preserve his fame in life and motion . For when it is once at a stand , it naturally flags and languishes . Admiration . is a very short - lived passion , that immediately decays upon grow- ing familiar with ...
... noble train of actions to preserve his fame in life and motion . For when it is once at a stand , it naturally flags and languishes . Admiration . is a very short - lived passion , that immediately decays upon grow- ing familiar with ...
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Page 440 - I die: * 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 649 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Page 447 - Repeats the story of her birth; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole. What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball; What though no real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found; In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.
Page 70 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Page 132 - Man-like, but different sex; so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the world seem'd now Mean, or in her summ'd up...
Page 154 - And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
Page 145 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Page 72 - Where joy for ever dwells! Hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time.
Page 326 - The pleasures of the imagination, taken in their full extent, are not so gross as those of sense, nor so refined as those of the understanding.
Page 324 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the same time it is very much straitened, and confined in its operations, to the number, bulk,...