The Spectator, Հատոր 2Tonson, 1729 |
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... Master's Pencil . I could not forbear looking upon the Face of this ancient Workman , and immediately , by the long Lock of Hair upon his Forehead , difcovered him to be TIME . WHETHER it were becaufe the Thread of my Dream was at an ...
... Master's Pencil . I could not forbear looking upon the Face of this ancient Workman , and immediately , by the long Lock of Hair upon his Forehead , difcovered him to be TIME . WHETHER it were becaufe the Thread of my Dream was at an ...
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... Master of that Art which is generally diftin- guilhed by the Name of Phifiognomy ; and naturally forms to himself the Character or Fortune of a Stranger , from the Features and Lineaments of his Face . We are no fooner prefented to any ...
... Master of that Art which is generally diftin- guilhed by the Name of Phifiognomy ; and naturally forms to himself the Character or Fortune of a Stranger , from the Features and Lineaments of his Face . We are no fooner prefented to any ...
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... Master , whom he had never feen before , and did not know he was then in Company with him . After a fhort Exami- nation of his Face , the Phyfiognomift pronounced him the most lewd , libidinous , drunken old Fellow that he had ever met ...
... Master , whom he had never feen before , and did not know he was then in Company with him . After a fhort Exami- nation of his Face , the Phyfiognomift pronounced him the most lewd , libidinous , drunken old Fellow that he had ever met ...
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... Master's laft Groan . 1 was quickly turned out of the Room , and left to fob and beat my Head against the Wall at my Leifure . The Grief I was in was inexpreffible ; and every Body thought it would have coft mo ́any Life . In a few Days ...
... Master's laft Groan . 1 was quickly turned out of the Room , and left to fob and beat my Head against the Wall at my Leifure . The Grief I was in was inexpreffible ; and every Body thought it would have coft mo ́any Life . In a few Days ...
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... Master in his Family ; his Orders are received as Favours , Tather than Duties , and the Diftin & tion of approaching him is part of the Reward for executing what is com- manded by him . THERE is another Circumftance in which my Friend ...
... Master in his Family ; his Orders are received as Favours , Tather than Duties , and the Diftin & tion of approaching him is part of the Reward for executing what is com- manded by him . THERE is another Circumftance in which my Friend ...
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Էջ 286 - I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it.
Էջ 289 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.
Էջ 110 - ... subjects, hear their duties explained to them, and join together in adoration of the Supreme Being. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week, not only as it refreshes in their minds the notions of religion, but as it puts both the sexes upon appearing in their most agreeable forms, and exerting all such qualities as are apt to give them a figure in the eye of the village.
Էջ 112 - As soon as the Sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the Church. The Knight walks down from his Seat in the Chancel between a double row of his Tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side; and every now and then...
Էջ 153 - Upon his first rising the court was hushed, and a general whisper ran among the country people, that Sir Roger < was up. ' The speech he made was so little to the purpose, that I shall not trouble my readers with an account of it; and I believe was not so much designed by the knight himself to inform the court, as to give him a figure in my eye, and keep up his credit in the country.
Էջ 112 - ... dazzled with riches, that they pay as much deference to the understanding of a man of an estate as of a man of learning...
Էջ 110 - It is certain the country people would soon degenerate into a kind of savages and barbarians, were there not such frequent returns of a stated time in which the whole village meet together with their best faces and in their cleanliest habits to converse with one another upon indifferent subjects, hear their duties explained to them, and join together in adoration of the supreme Being.
Էջ 96 - ... he is every day soliciting me for something in behalf of one or other of my tenants his parishioners. There has not been a lawsuit in the parish since he has lived among them ; if any dispute arises they apply themselves to him for the decision ; if they do not acquiesce in his judgment, which I think never happened above once or twice at most, they appeal to me.
Էջ 286 - What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other? What thou seest...
Էջ 101 - Country, and is very famous for finding out a Hare. He is extremely well versed in all the little Handicrafts of an idle Man: He makes a May-fly to a Miracle ; and furnishes the whole Country with Angle-Rods.