The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 3T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811 - English literature |
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... acrostic , by which means some of the most arrant undisputed blockheads about the town began to entertain ambitious thoughts , and to set up for polite authors . I shall , therefore , describe at length those many arts of false wit , in ...
... acrostic , by which means some of the most arrant undisputed blockheads about the town began to entertain ambitious thoughts , and to set up for polite authors . I shall , therefore , describe at length those many arts of false wit , in ...
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... Acrostic land ; There may'st thou wings display , and altars raise , And torture one poor word a thousand ways . This fashion of false wit was revived by several poets of the last age , and in particular may be met with among Mr ...
... Acrostic land ; There may'st thou wings display , and altars raise , And torture one poor word a thousand ways . This fashion of false wit was revived by several poets of the last age , and in particular may be met with among Mr ...
Page 147
... acrostics , when the principal letters stand two or three deep . I have seen some of them where the verses have not only been edged by a name at each extremity , but have had the same name running down like a seam through the middle of ...
... acrostics , when the principal letters stand two or three deep . I have seen some of them where the verses have not only been edged by a name at each extremity , but have had the same name running down like a seam through the middle of ...
Page 152
... for any apprehensions of this kind , that has seen acrostics handed about the town with great secrecy and applause ; to which I must also add a little epigram called the Witch's Prayer , that fell into verse 152 No. 61 . SPECTATOR ..
... for any apprehensions of this kind , that has seen acrostics handed about the town with great secrecy and applause ; to which I must also add a little epigram called the Witch's Prayer , that fell into verse 152 No. 61 . SPECTATOR ..
Page 153
... acrostics , and Whig anagrams , and do not quarrel with either of them , be- cause they are Whigs or Tories , but because they are anagrams and acrostics . But to return to punning . Having pursued the his- tory of a pun , from its ...
... acrostics , and Whig anagrams , and do not quarrel with either of them , be- cause they are Whigs or Tories , but because they are anagrams and acrostics . But to return to punning . Having pursued the his- tory of a pun , from its ...
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Page 105 - 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 69 - I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Page 39 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator...
Page 373 - The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 8 - It is said, he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him.
Page 324 - Examine now, said he, this sea that is bounded with darkness at both ends, and tell me what thou discoverest in it. I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide.
Page 327 - The Genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me ; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating; but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.
Page 323 - I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.
Page 6 - I never espoused any party with violence, and am resolved to observe an exact neutrality between the Whigs and Tories, unless I shall be forced to declare myself by the hostilities of either side. In short, I have acted in all the parts of my life as a looker-on, which is the character I intend to preserve in this paper.
Page 334 - Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long ; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.