 | Bradnock Hall - 1897 - 290 Seiten
...kindest 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...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!... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1897 - 392 Seiten
...Nature, and an Enemy to Pomp and Noise \ it arises, in the first place, from the Enjoyment of ones self? and, in the next, from the Friendship and Conversation...Meadows? In short, it feels every thing it wants within it self, and receives no Addition from Multitudes of Witnesses and Spectators. On the contrary, false... | |
 | John Scott Clark - 1898 - 910 Seiten
...very pretty, thought that Addison's tendency was too feminine." — Edmund Gosse. ILLUSTRATIONS. " True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy...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."... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 490 Seiten
...to fetch down the most airy coquette from the wildest of her flights and rambles. / True hapr^ifless is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise...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... | |
 | 1831 - 364 Seiten
...but 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...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 Seiten
...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...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 - 1900 - 478 Seiten
...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 - 1900 - 476 Seiten
...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...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 - 1902 - 474 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Theodore Ruggles Timby - 1902 - 340 Seiten
..."Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are enabled to inspire." Addison says : " True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise." Pope says : "Order is heaven's first law, and this confessed, Some are and must be greater than the... | |
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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. 
