The Spectator, Հատոր 2J. and R. Tonson, 1739 - 313 էջ |
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... Imagination , that they formed in it a fhort Morning's Dream , which I fhall communicate to my Reader , rather as the firft Sketch and Outlines of a Vision , than as a finished Piece . .. I dreamt that I was admitted into a long ...
... Imagination , that they formed in it a fhort Morning's Dream , which I fhall communicate to my Reader , rather as the firft Sketch and Outlines of a Vision , than as a finished Piece . .. I dreamt that I was admitted into a long ...
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... Imagination nor her Health would ever give her to know that she is turned of Twenty ; but that in the midst of these pretty Soft- neffes , and Airs of Delicacy and Attraction , fhe has a tall Daughter within a Fortnight of Fifteen , who ...
... Imagination nor her Health would ever give her to know that she is turned of Twenty ; but that in the midst of these pretty Soft- neffes , and Airs of Delicacy and Attraction , fhe has a tall Daughter within a Fortnight of Fifteen , who ...
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... Imagination as far as poffible from what they had long themselves forgot , and ended his Difcourfe with a fly Commendation of the Doctrine of Platonick Love ; at the fame time he ran over , with a laughing Dye , Craftin's thin Legs ...
... Imagination as far as poffible from what they had long themselves forgot , and ended his Difcourfe with a fly Commendation of the Doctrine of Platonick Love ; at the fame time he ran over , with a laughing Dye , Craftin's thin Legs ...
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... Imagination and Good- breeding are added to a fweet Difpofition , they qualify it to be one of the greatest Bleffings , as well as Plea- fures of Life . MEN would come into Company with ten times the Pleasure they do , if they were fure ...
... Imagination and Good- breeding are added to a fweet Difpofition , they qualify it to be one of the greatest Bleffings , as well as Plea- fures of Life . MEN would come into Company with ten times the Pleasure they do , if they were fure ...
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... Imagination , that I fanfy will not be altogether unlike what will be found in fome Page or other of this imaginary Hiftorian . very IT was under this Reign , fays he , that the SPEC- TATOR published those little Diurnal Effays which ...
... Imagination , that I fanfy will not be altogether unlike what will be found in fome Page or other of this imaginary Hiftorian . very IT was under this Reign , fays he , that the SPEC- TATOR published those little Diurnal Effays which ...
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Էջ 154 - Upon this my friend with his usual cheerfulness related the particulars above-mentioned, and ordered the head to be brought into the room. I could not forbear discovering greater expressions of mirth than ordinary upon the appearance of this...
Էջ 285 - I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a little musical instrument in his hand. As I looked upon him, he applied it. to his lips, and began to play upon it. The sound of it was...
Էջ 102 - ... himself. He now and then presents a pair of garters of his own knitting to their mothers or sisters ; and raises a great deal of mirth among them, by inquiring as often as he meets them
Էջ 87 - Now the best way in the world for a man to seem to be any thing is really to be what he would seem to be. Besides, that it is many times as troublesome to make good the pretence of a good quality, as to have it...
Էջ 116 - Sunday in the dignity of his order, and insinuates to them in almost every sermon that he is a better man than his patron. In short, matters are come to such an extremity, that the squire has not said his prayers either in public or private this half year; and that the parson threatens him, if he does not mend his manners, to pray for him in the face of the whole congregation.
Էջ 286 - I see multitudes of people passing over it," said I, " and a black cloud hanging on each end of it.' As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and, upon...
Էջ 287 - ... on trap-doors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped had they not been thus forced upon them. 'The Genius seeing me indulge myself on this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it. Take thine eyes off the bridge...
Էջ 286 - ... them into the tide, and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Էջ 95 - ... 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.
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...