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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Արդյունքներ 66–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... heard , I begin to blame my own taciturnity ; and since I have neither time nor inclination to com- municate the fulness of my heart in speech , I am resolved to do it in writing , and to print myself out , if possible , before I die ...
... heard , I begin to blame my own taciturnity ; and since I have neither time nor inclination to com- municate the fulness of my heart in speech , I am resolved to do it in writing , and to print myself out , if possible , before I die ...
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... heard him prove , that diligence makes more lasting acquisi- tions than valour , and that sloth has ruined more nations than the sword . He abounds in several frugal maxims , amongst which the greatest favour- ite is , ' A penny saved ...
... heard him prove , that diligence makes more lasting acquisi- tions than valour , and that sloth has ruined more nations than the sword . He abounds in several frugal maxims , amongst which the greatest favour- ite is , ' A penny saved ...
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... heard him often lament , that in a profession where merit is placed in so conspicuous a view , impudence should get the better of modesty . When he has talked to this purpose , I never heard him make a sour expression , but frankly ...
... heard him often lament , that in a profession where merit is placed in so conspicuous a view , impudence should get the better of modesty . When he has talked to this purpose , I never heard him make a sour expression , but frankly ...
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... heard concerning the decay of public credit , with the methods of re- storing it , and which , in my opinion , have al- ways been defective , because they have always been made with an eye to separate interests , and party principles ...
... heard concerning the decay of public credit , with the methods of re- storing it , and which , in my opinion , have al- ways been defective , because they have always been made with an eye to separate interests , and party principles ...
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... heard . She was likewise , as I afterward found , a greater valetudinarian than any I had ever met with , even in her own sex , and subject to such momentary consumptions , that in the twinkling of an eye she would fall away from the ...
... heard . She was likewise , as I afterward found , a greater valetudinarian than any I had ever met with , even in her own sex , and subject to such momentary consumptions , that in the twinkling of an eye she would fall away from the ...
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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.