 | Joseph Addison - 1901 - 208 pagina’s
...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 to pomp and noise ; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and, in the next, from the friendship... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 476 pagina’s
...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 to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of oneself, and, in the next, from the friendship... | |
 | Theodore Ruggles Timby - 1902 - 340 pagina’s
..."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... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 474 pagina’s
...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 to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of oneself, and, in the next, from the friendship... | |
 | Mary Minerva Barrows - 1905 - 208 pagina’s
...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 to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self; and in the next, from the friendship... | |
 | 1906 - 578 pagina’s
...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 to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self; and, in the next, from the friendship... | |
 | Joseph McCabe - 1907 - 460 pagina’s
...grilled, very religious-looking door — was written, in gold characters, Addison's excellent saying: "True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise." Two of the nuns guarded the door, which was firmly closed at ten every night, and the key was taken... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pagina’s
...essentials to happiness in this life are, something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. The the wealth of the Indies.— There is creative reading as well as cr ; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self ; und in the next, from the friendship... | |
 | J. H. Tilden - 1996 - 206 pagina’s
...in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he proposes to remove." '•'' -' Addison says: "True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; * * * false happiness loves to be in a crowd and te draw the eyes of the world upon her. She does not... | |
 | Thomas J. Leonard - 1998 - 344 pagina’s
...what it's worth. (sign in the window of The Low Self-Esteem Cafe) — from a cartoon by JOHN CALLAHAN 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. — JOSEPH ADDISON Get rid of what... | |
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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; it loves shade and solitude, and... 
