The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Том 2J. Crissy, 1824 |
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... whole course of these papers , I have acknow- ledged myself incapable . While I busy myself as a stranger upon earth , and can pretend to no other than being a looker on , you are conspicuous in the busy and polite world , both in the ...
... whole course of these papers , I have acknow- ledged myself incapable . While I busy myself as a stranger upon earth , and can pretend to no other than being a looker on , you are conspicuous in the busy and polite world , both in the ...
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... whole wood was nothing else but a wood of shades . He immediately concluded , that this huge thicket of thorns and brakes was designed as a kind of fence or quick - set hedge to the ghosts it enclosed ; and that probably their soft sub ...
... whole wood was nothing else but a wood of shades . He immediately concluded , that this huge thicket of thorns and brakes was designed as a kind of fence or quick - set hedge to the ghosts it enclosed ; and that probably their soft sub ...
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... whole woman . I remember , when Dr. Titus Oates ( a ) was in all his glory , I accompanied my friend Will Honey- comb in a visit to a lady of his acquaintance : we were no sooner sat down , but upon casting my eyes about the room , I ...
... whole woman . I remember , when Dr. Titus Oates ( a ) was in all his glory , I accompanied my friend Will Honey- comb in a visit to a lady of his acquaintance : we were no sooner sat down , but upon casting my eyes about the room , I ...
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... whole week for this undertaking , that the scheme of my thoughts may not be broken and interrupted ; and I dare promise myself , if my readers wil give me a week's attention , that this great city will be very much changed for the ...
... whole week for this undertaking , that the scheme of my thoughts may not be broken and interrupted ; and I dare promise myself , if my readers wil give me a week's attention , that this great city will be very much changed for the ...
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... whole book of Psalms written in the lines of the face and the hair of the head . When I was last at Oxford , I perused one of the whiskers , and was reading the other , but could not go so far in it as I would have done , by reason of ...
... whole book of Psalms written in the lines of the face and the hair of the head . When I was last at Oxford , I perused one of the whiskers , and was reading the other , but could not go so far in it as I would have done , by reason of ...
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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.