The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]: with a biogr. and critical preface, and notes |
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Of all the works that have been written in the English language , the series of
Essays under the title of The Spectator has undoubtedly had the greatest
influence in reforming the manners , and correcting the rices of the English
people .
Of all the works that have been written in the English language , the series of
Essays under the title of The Spectator has undoubtedly had the greatest
influence in reforming the manners , and correcting the rices of the English
people .
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Phæbe was reported to have been the daughter of Bentley , and the young
student composed his verses in the hope that they would assist him in obtaining
his fellowship from the greatest of modern scholars . A fellowship he certainly did
...
Phæbe was reported to have been the daughter of Bentley , and the young
student composed his verses in the hope that they would assist him in obtaining
his fellowship from the greatest of modern scholars . A fellowship he certainly did
...
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... so much as he perused the Latin poets , he could undoubtedly have pointed
out a remarkable passage in Cicero , where the greatest orator of that eminently
grave people does not even venture to defend his client on the charge of dancing
.
... so much as he perused the Latin poets , he could undoubtedly have pointed
out a remarkable passage in Cicero , where the greatest orator of that eminently
grave people does not even venture to defend his client on the charge of dancing
.
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They would indeed draw me out of that obscurity which I have enjoyed for many
years , and expose me in public places to several salutes and civilities , which
have been always very disagreeable to me ; for the greatest pain I can suffer , is
the ...
They would indeed draw me out of that obscurity which I have enjoyed for many
years , and expose me in public places to several salutes and civilities , which
have been always very disagreeable to me ; for the greatest pain I can suffer , is
the ...
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He abounds in several frugal maxims , amongst which the greatest favourite is , “
A penny saved is a penny got . " A general trader of good sense is pleasanter
company than a general scholar ; and Sir ANDREW having a natural unaffected ...
He abounds in several frugal maxims , amongst which the greatest favourite is , “
A penny saved is a penny got . " A general trader of good sense is pleasanter
company than a general scholar ; and Sir ANDREW having a natural unaffected ...
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Էջ 306 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees anybody else nodding either wakes them himself or sends his servants to them.
Էջ 306 - ... reprimand to the person that is absent. The chaplain has often told me, that upon a catechising day, when Sir Roger has been pleased with a boy that answers well, he has ordered a bible to be given him next day for his encouragement; and sometimes accompanies it with a flitch of bacon to his mother. Sir Roger has likewise added five pounds a year to the clerk's place ; and that he...
Էջ 420 - O'er heaven's high towers to force resistless way, Turning our tortures into horrid arms Against the Torturer ; when to meet the noise Of his almighty engine he shall hear Infernal thunder, and for lightning see Black fire and horror shot with equal rage Among his angels ; and his throne itself Mixt with Tartarean sulphur and strange fire, His own invented torments.
Էջ 290 - Greek at his own table, for which reason he desired a particular friend of his at the University to find him out a clergyman rather of plain sense than much learning, of a good aspect, a clear voice, a sociable temper, and, if possible, a man that understood a little of backgammon. My friend...
Էջ 12 - He is now in his fifty-sixth year, cheerful, gay, and hearty; keeps a good house 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. When he comes into a house he calls the servants by their names, and talks all the way upstairs to a visit.
Էջ 306 - ... than blemish his good qualities. As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side ; and every now and then inquires...
Էջ 303 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present. Were a human soul thus at...
Էջ 307 - ... squire, who live in a perpetual state of war. The parson is always preaching at the 'squire; and the 'squire, to be revenged on the parson, never comes to church. The 'squire has made all his tenants atheists and...
Էջ 32 - It was said of Socrates that he brought Philosophy down from heaven, to inhabit among men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffee-houses.
Էջ 283 - In a word, whatsoever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over ; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under an everlasting jealousy and suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly. When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast; and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.
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| Վերնագիր | The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]: with a biogr. and critical preface, and notes |
| Հեղինակ | Spectator The |
| Հրատարակված | 1853 |
| Original from | Օքսֆորդի համալսարան |
| Digitized | 19 Հոկտեմբեր 2006 |
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