 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 584 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...the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions: it loves shade and solitude, and 10 naturally haunts groves and fountains, fields... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 576 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...the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions: it loves shade and solitude, and 10 naturally haunts groves and fountains, fiaids... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...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...the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions; it loves shade and solitude, and naturally haunts groves and fountains, fields... | |
 | william francis ainsworth - 1876 - 732 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...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 few select companions; it loves shade and solitude, and naturally haunts groves and fountains, fields... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1880 - 618 pages
...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...the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. It loves shade and solitude, and naturally haunts groves and fountains^ fields... | |
 | P. Sands - English language - 1882 - 624 pages
...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...next, " from the friendship and conversation of a few select ' companions ; it loves shade * and solitude, * and naturally haunts w groves and fountains,... | |
 | Joseph Johnson - Success - 1883 - 426 pages
...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...the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions." Hume the historian never said anything truer than — " To be happy, the person... | |
 | Truths - 1885 - 572 pages
...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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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... 
