 | John Scott Clark - 1898 - 910 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...mockery upon me ! 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,...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... | |
 | 1832 - 372 pages
...sublime. Unmeasured strength, with early art comblned. Awed, served, protected and amazed mankind. 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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
..."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... | |
 | Mary Minerva Barrows - 1905 - 208 pages
...civilization, and once more cast ourselves, with conscious bent, into the arms of nature. Richard Wagner. 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. 
