The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]: with a biogr. and critical preface, and notes1853 |
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... occasion I think it but reasonable to declare , that whatever skill I may have in specula- tion , I shall never betray what the eyes of lovers say to each other in my presence . At the same time I shall not think myself obliged by this ...
... occasion I think it but reasonable to declare , that whatever skill I may have in specula- tion , I shall never betray what the eyes of lovers say to each other in my presence . At the same time I shall not think myself obliged by this ...
Էջ 54
... occasion , matter of great jest , if a man enters with a prominent pair of shoulders into an assembly , or is distinguished by an expansion of mouth , or obliquity of aspect . It is happy for a man that has any of these oddnesses about ...
... occasion , matter of great jest , if a man enters with a prominent pair of shoulders into an assembly , or is distinguished by an expansion of mouth , or obliquity of aspect . It is happy for a man that has any of these oddnesses about ...
Էջ 18
... occasion , I do not hear that any of the performers in our opera pretend to equal the famous pied piper , who made all the mice of a great town in Ger- Rinaldo , an opera , by Aaron Hill . + See No. 14 ; and Tat . No. 78 . The records ...
... occasion , I do not hear that any of the performers in our opera pretend to equal the famous pied piper , who made all the mice of a great town in Ger- Rinaldo , an opera , by Aaron Hill . + See No. 14 ; and Tat . No. 78 . The records ...
Էջ 46
... occasion offered of expressing himself in the refuse of the tyring rooms . We had a judge that danced a minuet , with a quaker for his partner , while half a dozen harlequins stood by as spectators : a Turk drank me off two bottles of ...
... occasion offered of expressing himself in the refuse of the tyring rooms . We had a judge that danced a minuet , with a quaker for his partner , while half a dozen harlequins stood by as spectators : a Turk drank me off two bottles of ...
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... occasion to a pretty melancholy novel . She had , for several years , received the addresses of a gentleman , whom , after a long and in- timate acquaintance , she forsook , upon the account of this shining equipage which had been ...
... occasion to a pretty melancholy novel . She had , for several years , received the addresses of a gentleman , whom , after a long and in- timate acquaintance , she forsook , upon the account of this shining equipage which had been ...
Common terms and phrases
acquaintance actions ADDISON admiration Æneid agreeable Alcibiades appear Aristotle beauty behaviour character club consider conversation creature delight desire discourse dress DRYDEN endeavour English entertainment Ephesian Matron eyes father favour fortune genius gentleman give greatest happy head hear heard heart honour hope Hudibras human humble servant humour Iliad innocent kind lady laugh learned letter live look lover mankind manner marriage master means mind nature never obliged observed occasion opera OVID paper Paradise Lost particular pass passion person Pharamond Plato pleased pleasure poem poet present proper racter reader reason ROGER DE COVERLEY Sappho sense shew Sir ROGER Socrates soul speak SPECTATOR speculations STEELE tell temper Theodosius thing thou thought tion told town turn VIRG Virgil virtue Whig whole woman women words write young
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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 422 - 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.