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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... . I am , MY LORD , Your Lordship's most obedient , Most devoted humble servant , THE SPECTATOR * The common editions read less meanly , which is evi- dently wrong . THE SPECTATOR . No. 1. THURSDAY , MARCH 1 , DEDICATION . XXV.
... . I am , MY LORD , Your Lordship's most obedient , Most devoted humble servant , THE SPECTATOR * The common editions read less meanly , which is evi- dently wrong . THE SPECTATOR . No. 1. THURSDAY , MARCH 1 , DEDICATION . XXV.
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... servants look satisfied , all the young women profess love to him , and the young * A noted sharper , swaggerer , and debauchee , well known in Black Friars and its then infamous purlieus , and to expose whom , it has been said , the ...
... servants look satisfied , all the young women profess love to him , and the young * A noted sharper , swaggerer , and debauchee , well known in Black Friars and its then infamous purlieus , and to expose whom , it has been said , the ...
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... servants by their names , and talks all the way up stairs to a visit . I must not omit , that Sir Roger is a justice of the quo- rum ; that he fills the chair at a quarter - session with great abilities , and three months ago gained ...
... servants by their names , and talks all the way up stairs to a visit . I must not omit , that Sir Roger is a justice of the quo- rum ; that he fills the chair at a quarter - session with great abilities , and three months ago gained ...
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... servant , ' and fellow labourer , I am T. B. ' Not long after the perusal of this letter , I re- ceived another upon the same subject , which by the date and style of it , I take to be written by some young templar . SIR , Middle ...
... servant , ' and fellow labourer , I am T. B. ' Not long after the perusal of this letter , I re- ceived another upon the same subject , which by the date and style of it , I take to be written by some young templar . SIR , Middle ...
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... servants as heartily before my face as behind my back . In short , I move up and down the house , and enter into all companies with the same liberty as a cat , or any other domestic animal , and am as little suspected of telling any ...
... servants as heartily before my face as behind my back . In short , I move up and down the house , and enter into all companies with the same liberty as a cat , or any other domestic animal , and am as little suspected of telling any ...
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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.