The Spectator [by J. Addison and others] with sketches of the lives of the authors, and explanatory notes. 12 vols. [in 6]., Հատորներ 1-21853 |
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Spectator The. PREFACE . PERHAPS there is no book in the English lan- guage that has been so generally read and admired as the Spectator . It was so popular at the time of its publication , that twenty thousand papers were sometimes sold ...
Spectator The. PREFACE . PERHAPS there is no book in the English lan- guage that has been so generally read and admired as the Spectator . It was so popular at the time of its publication , that twenty thousand papers were sometimes sold ...
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Spectator The. SKETCHES OF THE LIVES OF THE AUTHORS . SIR RICHARD STEELE . As a writer of periodical essays , the name of Steele is entitled to the first place . Papers on a plan somewhat similar to the Spectator , had in- deed been ...
Spectator The. SKETCHES OF THE LIVES OF THE AUTHORS . SIR RICHARD STEELE . As a writer of periodical essays , the name of Steele is entitled to the first place . Papers on a plan somewhat similar to the Spectator , had in- deed been ...
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Spectator The. daily or weekly essays as teach the minuter de- cencies and inferior duties , and regulate the prac- tice of elegant conversation . When we pursue , therefore , the numerous and valuable publications of the same kind which ...
Spectator The. daily or weekly essays as teach the minuter de- cencies and inferior duties , and regulate the prac- tice of elegant conversation . When we pursue , therefore , the numerous and valuable publications of the same kind which ...
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Spectator The. not been celebrated as it deserved ; and at the same time to request that his Lordship , who was the known patron of the poets , would name one quali- fied to do justice to so noble a subject . Lord Hali- fax mentioned Mr ...
Spectator The. not been celebrated as it deserved ; and at the same time to request that his Lordship , who was the known patron of the poets , would name one quali- fied to do justice to so noble a subject . Lord Hali- fax mentioned Mr ...
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Spectator The. life as in the most important offices which you have borne . I would therefore rather choose to speak ... SPECTATOR * The common editions read less meanly , which is evi- dently wrong . THE SPECTATOR . No. 1. THURSDAY ...
Spectator The. life as in the most important offices which you have borne . I would therefore rather choose to speak ... SPECTATOR * The common editions read less meanly , which is evi- dently wrong . THE SPECTATOR . No. 1. THURSDAY ...
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Էջ 242 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Էջ 155 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Էջ 180 - Manlike, but different sex, so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the World, seem'd now Mean, or in her summ'd up...
Էջ 258 - 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...
Էջ 262 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Էջ 181 - Yet innocence and virgin modesty, Her virtue, and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won, Not obvious, not obtrusive, but...
Էջ 30 - Tree, and in the theatres both of Drury Lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stock-jobbers at Jonathan's.
Էջ 260 - At his first settling with me I made him a present of all the good sermons which have been printed in English, and only begged of him that every Sunday he would pronounce one of them in the pulpit. Accordingly he has digested them into such a series that they follow one another naturally, and make a continued system of practical divinity.
Էջ 34 - ... both in town and country, a great lover of mankind; but there is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour, that he is rather beloved than esteemed: his tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company...
Էջ 152 - ... and enemies, priests and soldiers, monks and prebendaries, were crumbled amongst one another, and blended together in the same common mass ; how beauty, strength, and youth, with old age, weakness, and deformity, lay undistinguished in the same promiscuous heap of matter.