The Spectator: In Eight Volumes. : Vol. I[-VIII].Angier March., 1803 |
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... represent a wide champain country filled with herds and flocks , it would be ridiculous to draw the country only upon the scenes , and to crowd several parts of the stage with sheep and oxen . This is join- ing together inconsistencies ...
... represent a wide champain country filled with herds and flocks , it would be ridiculous to draw the country only upon the scenes , and to crowd several parts of the stage with sheep and oxen . This is join- ing together inconsistencies ...
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... represent that I am of opinion , to polish our understandings and neglect our manners , is of all things the most inexcusable . Rea- son should govern passion , but instead of that , you it is often subservient to it ; and as ...
... represent that I am of opinion , to polish our understandings and neglect our manners , is of all things the most inexcusable . Rea- son should govern passion , but instead of that , you it is often subservient to it ; and as ...
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... represent- ' ation of some play exhibited in honour of the com- ' monwealth , that an old gentleman came too late for ( a place suitable to his age and quality . Many of the young gentlemen who observed the difficulty ' and confusion he ...
... represent- ' ation of some play exhibited in honour of the com- ' monwealth , that an old gentleman came too late for ( a place suitable to his age and quality . Many of the young gentlemen who observed the difficulty ' and confusion he ...
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... represent us women as unbecoming as you please in your works , while we are unable to return the injury . You have twice or thrice observed in your discourse , that hypocrisy is the very foundation of our education ; and that an ability ...
... represent us women as unbecoming as you please in your works , while we are unable to return the injury . You have twice or thrice observed in your discourse , that hypocrisy is the very foundation of our education ; and that an ability ...
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... represent upon the stage ; but upon enquiry I find , that if any such cor- respondence has passed between them , it was not till the combat was over , when the lion was to be looked upon as dead , according to the received rules of the ...
... represent upon the stage ; but upon enquiry I find , that if any such cor- respondence has passed between them , it was not till the combat was over , when the lion was to be looked upon as dead , according to the received rules of the ...
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Էջ 58 - ... men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night : how often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator...
Էջ 324 - With that there came an arrow keen Out of an English bow, Which struck Earl Douglas to the heart, A deep and deadly blow ; Who never spoke more words than these : Fight on, my merry men all ; For why, my life is at an end, Lord Percy sees my fall.
Էջ 8 - The first of our society is a gentleman of Worcestershire, of ancient descent, a baronet, his name Sir Roger de Coverley". His great-grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance" which is called after him. All who know ' that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger. He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world only as he thinks the world is in the...
Էջ 70 - True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise : it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self; and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Էջ 6 - I am very well versed in the theory of a husband, or a father, and can discern the errors in the oeconomy, business., and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them; as standers-by discover blots, which are apt to escape those who are in the game.
Էջ xviii - ... truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed. This is an elevation of literary character "above all Greek, above all Roman fame.
Էջ 318 - Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate; our tables are stored with spices and oils and wines; our rooms are filled with pyramids of china, and adorned with the workmanship of Japan; our morning's draught comes to us from the remotest corners of the earth; we repair our bodies by the drugs of America, and repose ourselves under Indian canopies. My friend Sir Andrew calls the vineyards of France our gardens; the Spice Islands our hotbeds; the Persians our silkweavers; and the Chinese...
Էջ 196 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Էջ 4 - I had not been long at the university before I distinguished myself by a most profound silence ; for during the space of eight years, excepting in the public exercises of the college, I scarce uttered the quantity of an hundred words ; and indeed do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole life.
Էջ 116 - ... 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. After having thus surveyed this great magazine of mortality, as it were, in the lump ; I examined it more particularly by the accounts which I found on several of the monuments...