 | Tales - 1876 - Počet stránok 202
...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1880 - Počet stránok 618
...able to fetch down the most airy coquette from the wildest of her flights and rambles. True hapiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise...fields and meadows: in short, it feels every thing it wants within itself, and receives no addition from multitudes of witnesses and spectators. On the... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - Počet stránok 772
...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 - Počet stránok 624
...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 - Počet stránok 426
...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... | |
 | Truths - 1885 - Počet stránok 572
...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... | |
 | 1885 - Počet stránok 686
...grate which shut them out from the world, were these words of Addison, taken from the Spectator: " True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise." Her own daughters, two beautiful girls, were educated with the Prince's family. During the first eighteen... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1886 - Počet stránok 568
...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...of one's self; and in the next, from the friendship aft1d conversation of a few select companions: it loves shade and solitude, and 10 naturally haunts... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1888 - Počet stránok 606
...to fetch down the most airy coquette from the wildest of her flights and rambles. // True hapiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise...arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's solf; and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions/'Xt loves shade... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - Počet stránok 724
...Goodness, Hope, Joy, Matrimony, Money, Opinion, Peace, Religion, Silence, Suspicion, Temperance, Trust. 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.... | |
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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... 
