 | John Timbs - 1856 - 378 pages
...by setting up in the air what the solidity of the structure requires to be on the ground. — Burhe. DCCCCXLV. True happiness is of a retired nature, and...thing it wants within itself and receives no addition I from multitudes of witnesses and spectators. On the contrary, false happiness loves to be in a crowd,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 524 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.... | |
 | 1856 - 570 pages
...world does not consist in our being devoid of Passions, but in our learning to command them. Addison. T'RUE Happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy...Friendship and Conversation of a few select Companions : false Happiness loves to be in a crowd, and to draw the eyes of the world upon her. She does not... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 622 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...place, from the enjoyment of one's self ; and in the nest, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. It loves shade and solitude,... | |
 | 1856 - 374 pages
...by setting up in the air what the solidity of the structure requires to be on the ground. — Burhe. DCCCCXLV. True happiness is of a retired nature, and...and noise ; it arises, in the first place, from the enloyment of one's self ; and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions... | |
 | Spectator The - 1857 - 780 pages
...displayed, are able to fetch down the most airy coquette from the wildest of her flight* and rambles. of reason, through its gradations of advance in the morning of life. Every man acquainted firstplace, from the enjoyment of one's self; and in the next, from the friendship and conversation... | |
 | John Richardson Major - 1858 - 216 pages
...that they may not lie as a burden on the species, and be the only useless parts of the creation. XXXI. 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.... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1858 - 656 pages
...usually resided, not out of reach of some distant echoes of the hammers of Soho, he knew well that "true happiness is of a " retired nature, and an enemy...naturally haunts groves and fountains, fields and meadows : * Sail, liellum Cutil., cap. iv. t To Mr. Boulton, SOtli June, 1784. " in short, it feels everything... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1859 - 652 pages
...usually resided, not out of reach of some distant echoes of the hammers of Soho, he knew well that "true happiness is of a " retired nature, and an enemy...fountains, fields and meadows : " in short, it feels everything that it wants within itself, and " receives no addition from multitudes of witnesses and... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1859 - 652 pages
...usually resided, not out of reach of some distant echoes of the hammers of Soho, he knew well that "true happiness is of a " retired nature, and an enemy...fountains, fields and meadows : " in short, it feels everything that it wants within itself, and " receives no addition from multitudes of witnesses and... | |
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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. 
