The Works of Joseph Addison Complete in Three Volumes Embracing the Whole of the "Spectator," &c, Volume 2Harper & brothers, 1864 |
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... divine persons are introduced as speakers . One may , I think , observe , that the author proceeds with a kind of fear and trembling , whilst he describes the sen- timents of the Almighty . He dares not give his imagination its full ...
... divine persons are introduced as speakers . One may , I think , observe , that the author proceeds with a kind of fear and trembling , whilst he describes the sen- timents of the Almighty . He dares not give his imagination its full ...
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... divine colloquy , with the hymn of angels that follows upon it , are so won- derfully beautiful and poetical , that I should not forbear inserting the whole passage , if the bounds of my paper would give me leave : F No sooner had th ...
... divine colloquy , with the hymn of angels that follows upon it , are so won- derfully beautiful and poetical , that I should not forbear inserting the whole passage , if the bounds of my paper would give me leave : F No sooner had th ...
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... divine , and inexpressibly amusing to the imagina- tion . We are in the last place , to consider the parts which Adam and Eve act in the fourth book . The description of them , as they first appeared to Satan , is exquisitely drawn ...
... divine , and inexpressibly amusing to the imagina- tion . We are in the last place , to consider the parts which Adam and Eve act in the fourth book . The description of them , as they first appeared to Satan , is exquisitely drawn ...
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... divine en- thusiasm which is so natural to devotion . But if this calling upon the dead parts of nature is at all times a proper kind of wor- ship , it was in a peculiar manner suitable to our first parents , who had the creation fresh ...
... divine en- thusiasm which is so natural to devotion . But if this calling upon the dead parts of nature is at all times a proper kind of wor- ship , it was in a peculiar manner suitable to our first parents , who had the creation fresh ...
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... divine work . The natural majesty of Adam , and , at the same time , his submissive behaviour to the superior being who had vouchsafed to be his guest ; the solemn hail ' which the angel bestows upon the mother of mankind , with the ...
... divine work . The natural majesty of Adam , and , at the same time , his submissive behaviour to the superior being who had vouchsafed to be his guest ; the solemn hail ' which the angel bestows upon the mother of mankind , with the ...
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Page 179 - 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 317 - tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect...
Page 425 - IT must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well ! — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 316 - Farewell ! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him . The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 210 - 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 72 - Oh, why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest Heaven With Spirits masculine, create at last * This novelty on Earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the World at once With men, as Angels, without feminine; Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
Page 68 - 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 52 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Page 14 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad, In naked majesty seem'd lords of all : And worthy seem'd ; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure (Severe, but in true filial freedom placed), Whence true authority in men...
Page 77 - With what to sight or smell was sweet, from thee How shall I part, and whither wander down Into a lower world, to this obscure And wild ? how shall we breathe in other air Less pure, accustom'd to immortal fruits?