The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]: with a biogr. and critical preface, and notes1853 |
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... received him among them . The Athenians being suddenly touched with a sense of the Spartan virtue , and their own degeneracy , gave a thunder of applause ; and the old man cried out , The Athenians understand what is good , but the ...
... received him among them . The Athenians being suddenly touched with a sense of the Spartan virtue , and their own degeneracy , gave a thunder of applause ; and the old man cried out , The Athenians understand what is good , but the ...
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... from meeting together in so clandestine a manner . I am " Your humble servant , and fellow labourer , " T. B. " See Nos . 14 and 101 . Not long after the perusal of this letter I received 26 [ No. 8 . THE SPECTATOR .
... from meeting together in so clandestine a manner . I am " Your humble servant , and fellow labourer , " T. B. " See Nos . 14 and 101 . Not long after the perusal of this letter I received 26 [ No. 8 . THE SPECTATOR .
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Spectator The. Not long after the perusal of this letter I received another upon the same subject ; which , by the date and style of it , I take to be written by some young templar . " SIR , " Middle Temple , 1710-11 . " When a man has ...
Spectator The. Not long after the perusal of this letter I received another upon the same subject ; which , by the date and style of it , I take to be written by some young templar . " SIR , " Middle Temple , 1710-11 . " When a man has ...
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... received opinion , that a lion will not hurt a virgin . Several , who pretended to have seen the opera in Italy , had informed their friends , that the lion was to act a part in High Dutch , and roar twice or thrice to a thorough bass ...
... received opinion , that a lion will not hurt a virgin . Several , who pretended to have seen the opera in Italy , had informed their friends , that the lion was to act a part in High Dutch , and roar twice or thrice to a thorough bass ...
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... received rules of the drama . Besides , this is what is practised every day in Westminster Hall , where nothing is more usual than to see a couple of lawyers , who have been tear- ing each other to pieces in the court , embracing one ...
... received rules of the drama . Besides , this is what is practised every day in Westminster Hall , where nothing is more usual than to see a couple of lawyers , who have been tear- ing each other to pieces in the court , embracing one ...
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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.