| Joseph Addison - 1875 - 584 str.
...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...select companions: it loves shade and solitude, and 10 naturally haunts groves and fountains, fields and meadows; in short, it feels everything it wants... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1875 - 566 str.
...from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions: it loves shade and solitude, and 10 naturally haunts groves and fountains, fields and meadows; in short, it feels everything it wants within itself, and receives no addition from multitudes of witnesses and spectators.... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 str.
...due to the pleasing labour of the present composition. GIBBON: Decline and Fall, chap, lii., note. 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.... | |
| william francis ainsworth - 1876 - 732 str.
...human life as it is shown in its different phases will doubtless feel disposed to say with Addison, " True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise." But it is indispensable for one who has been brought to see the worth of true religion, and the emptiness... | |
| Tales - 1876 - 202 str.
...his sisters. She shows Johnny's copy-book, and the sampler-piece Lydia has worked, with the motto, " True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise." " And that's true, too, ma'am," says Lucy. " Maurice says there's sense in it, and is going to have... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 str.
...are due to the pleasing labour of the present composition. GIBBON: Decline and Fall, chap, hi., note. be observed that this power of the imagination is...ideas which it has received from the senses. Now everything it wants within itself, and receives no addition from multitudes of witnesses and spectators.... | |
| P. Sands - 1882 - 624 str.
...ni ф I may be done better without either. fann »erben gctbïn bejfer ofyne ein ober ba3 SInbere. True happiness is of a retired ' nature, and an enemy...loves shade * and solitude, * and naturally haunts w groves and fountains, " fields and meadows ; in short, it feels every thing it wants, within itself,... | |
| Joseph Johnson - 1883 - 426 str.
...deprive us of." The celebrated author of the Spectator had a similar wise thought when he said : " True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy...friendship and conversation of a few select companions." Hume the historian never said anything truer than — " To be happy, the person must be cheerful and... | |
| 1967 - 698 str.
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| Truths - 1885 - 572 str.
...consist in our being devoid of Passions, but in our learning to command them. SjappineSS. — Addison. TRUE Happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise ; it arises, in the fivst place, from the enjoyment of one's self: and in t!ie ncxt, from the Friendship and Conversation... | |
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