The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Том 2J. Crissy, 1824 |
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... pieces which have lived very near as long as the Iliad itself ; I mean those short poems printed among the minor Greek poets , which resemble the figure of an egg , a pair of wings , an axe , a shepherd's pipe , and an altar . As for ...
... pieces which have lived very near as long as the Iliad itself ; I mean those short poems printed among the minor Greek poets , which resemble the figure of an egg , a pair of wings , an axe , a shepherd's pipe , and an altar . As for ...
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... pieces of wit are much more ancient than the authors to whom they are generally ascribed ; at least I will never be persuaded , that so fine a writer as Theocritus could have been the author of any such simple works . It was impossible ...
... pieces of wit are much more ancient than the authors to whom they are generally ascribed ; at least I will never be persuaded , that so fine a writer as Theocritus could have been the author of any such simple works . It was impossible ...
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... pressed to see such a piece of curiosity . I have since heard , that there is now an eminent wri- ting master in town , who has transcribed all the Old Testament in a full - bottomed periwig ; and No. 58 . 19 THE SPECTATOR .
... pressed to see such a piece of curiosity . I have since heard , that there is now an eminent wri- ting master in town , who has transcribed all the Old Testament in a full - bottomed periwig ; and No. 58 . 19 THE SPECTATOR .
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... pieces a little cock . For the better understand- ing of which device , I must acquaint my Eng- lish reader , that the cock has the misfortune to be called in Latin by the same word that signifies a Frenchman , as the lion is the emblem ...
... pieces a little cock . For the better understand- ing of which device , I must acquaint my Eng- lish reader , that the cock has the misfortune to be called in Latin by the same word that signifies a Frenchman , as the lion is the emblem ...
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... as numerous as the virtues of the stars which they celebrated . It is no wonder that men who had so much time upon their hands , did not only restore all the antiquated pieces of false wit , 26 No. 60 . THE SPECTATOR .
... as numerous as the virtues of the stars which they celebrated . It is no wonder that men who had so much time upon their hands , did not only restore all the antiquated pieces of false wit , 26 No. 60 . THE SPECTATOR .
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Стр. 250 - Roger's family, because it consists of sober and staid persons; for .as the knight is the best master in the world, he seldom changes his servants; and as he is beloved by all about him, his servants never care for leaving him : by this means his Domestics are all in years, and grown old with their master. You would take his valet...
Стр. 37 - For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Стр. 101 - Lo, yonder doth Earl Douglas come, His men in armour bright ; Full twenty hundred Scottish spears All marching in our sight ; All men of pleasant Teviotdale, Fast by the river Tweed...
Стр. 250 - HAVING often received an invitation from my friend Sir Roger de Coverley, to pass away a month with him in the country, I last week accompanied him thither, and am settled with him for some time at his countryhouse, where I intend to form several of my ensuing speculations. Sir Roger, who is very well acquainted with my...
Стр. 253 - As Sir Roger was going on in his story, the gentleman we were talking of came up to us ; and upon the knight's asking him who preached to-morrow (for it was Saturday night), told us, the Bishop of St. Asaph in the morning, and Dr. South in the afternoon.
Стр. 79 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung by some blind crowder with no rougher voice than rude style ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?
Стр. 192 - WE all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.
Стр. 252 - As I was walking with him last night, he asked me how I liked the good man whom I have just now mentioned? and without staying for my answer told me, that he was afraid of being insulted with Latin and Greek at his own table...
Стр. 176 - With what all Earth or Heaven could bestow To make her amiable...
Стр. 76 - The single dress of a woman of quality is often the product of an hundred climates. The muff and the fan come together from the different ends of the earth. The scarf is sent from the torrid zone, and the tippet from beneath the pole. The brocade petticoat rises out of the mines of Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Indostan.