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 88–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
Էջ iii
... turn to any particular subject contained in the work . The Spectator not only contains a vast fund of en- tertainment for the general reader , but it abounds with maxims and principles which may be rendered useful to every generation ...
... turn to any particular subject contained in the work . The Spectator not only contains a vast fund of en- tertainment for the general reader , but it abounds with maxims and principles which may be rendered useful to every generation ...
Էջ 34
... turn makes him at once both dis- interested and agreeable ; as few of his thoughts are drawn from business , they are most of them fit for conversation . His taste of books is a little too just for the age he lives in ; he has read all ...
... turn makes him at once both dis- interested and agreeable ; as few of his thoughts are drawn from business , they are most of them fit for conversation . His taste of books is a little too just for the age he lives in ; he has read all ...
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... turn at Will's till the play begins ; he has his shoes rubbed , and his periwig powdered at the barber's , as you go into the Rose . It is for the good of the audience when he is at a play ; for the actors have an ambition to please him ...
... turn at Will's till the play begins ; he has his shoes rubbed , and his periwig powdered at the barber's , as you go into the Rose . It is for the good of the audience when he is at a play ; for the actors have an ambition to please him ...
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... turn ; and I find there is not one of the company , but myself , who rarely speak at all , but speaks of him as of that sort of man who is usually called a well - bred fine gentleman . To conclude his character , where women are not ...
... turn ; and I find there is not one of the company , but myself , who rarely speak at all , but speaks of him as of that sort of man who is usually called a well - bred fine gentleman . To conclude his character , where women are not ...
Էջ 41
... in a moment out of a wasting distemper , into a habit of the highest health and vigour . I had very soon an opportunity of observing these quick turns and changes in her constitution . There No. 3 . 41 THE SPECTATOR .
... in a moment out of a wasting distemper , into a habit of the highest health and vigour . I had very soon an opportunity of observing these quick turns and changes in her constitution . There No. 3 . 41 THE SPECTATOR .
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acquaint acrostics ADDISON admiration Æneid agreeable anagrams appear Aristotle audience beauty behaviour body called character Cicero club conversation daugh discourse dress DRYDEN endeavour English entertainment eyes face fair sex favour genius gentleman give hand head heard heart honour Hudibras humble servant humour Italian JOHN HENLEY kind king lady laugh learned letter lion live look Lord lover mankind manner master means mind mistress nature never night observed occasion opera OVID paper particular passion person Pharamond Pict play pleased pleasure poem poet present prince privy counsellors reader reason ROSCOMMON sense sion Sir Roger speak Spectator STEELE talk Tatler tell thing THOMAS TICKELL thors thou thought tion told town tragedy Tryphiodorus ture turn verses VIRG Virgil virtue Whig whole woman women words writing young
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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.