The British Essayists: SpectatorLionel Thomas Berguer T. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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... desire from fortune , whatever might be the aims of his ambition . But BUDGELL had been rapidly exalted , only to fall as rapidly . In 1718 , the Duke of BOLTON was nominated to the lieutenancy of Ireland ; and BUDGELL , having drawn ...
... desire from fortune , whatever might be the aims of his ambition . But BUDGELL had been rapidly exalted , only to fall as rapidly . In 1718 , the Duke of BOLTON was nominated to the lieutenancy of Ireland ; and BUDGELL , having drawn ...
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... desires after he had forgot his cruel beauty , insomuch that it is reported he has frequently offended in point of chastity with beggars and gip- sies but this is looked upon , by his friends , rather as matter of raillery than truth ...
... desires after he had forgot his cruel beauty , insomuch that it is reported he has frequently offended in point of chastity with beggars and gip- sies but this is looked upon , by his friends , rather as matter of raillery than truth ...
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... desire no more in any thing but to be new , to be agreeable . If I found consolation among such , I was as much disquieted by the incapacity of others . These are mortals who have a certain curio- sity without power of reflection , and ...
... desire no more in any thing but to be new , to be agreeable . If I found consolation among such , I was as much disquieted by the incapacity of others . These are mortals who have a certain curio- sity without power of reflection , and ...
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... desires to form a right judgment of those who are the actors on it . There is another set of men that I must likewise lay a claim to , whom I have lately called the blanks of society , as being altogether unfurnished with ideas , till ...
... desires to form a right judgment of those who are the actors on it . There is another set of men that I must likewise lay a claim to , whom I have lately called the blanks of society , as being altogether unfurnished with ideas , till ...
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... desires his name may be concealed . He says , very handsomely , in his own excuse , that he does not act for gain , that he indulges an innocent pleasure in it ; and that it is better to pass away an evening in this manner , than in ...
... desires his name may be concealed . He says , very handsomely , in his own excuse , that he does not act for gain , that he indulges an innocent pleasure in it ; and that it is better to pass away an evening in this manner , than in ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquaint acrostics ADDISON admiration Æneid aëre agreeable appear assembly audience battle of Almanza beauty BUDGELL character club coffee-house conversation delight discourse dress endeavour English entertainment envious Ephesian Matron eyes folly genius gentleman George Etherege give heard hearing sense heart hero honour Hudibras humble servant humour impudence innocent Italian kind King lady laugh letter likewise lion live looked lover mankind manner MARCH March 15 MARCH 21 means merit mind minuet nature never night obliged observed occasion opera OVID paper particular passion perpetual entertainment person Pict piece play playhouse pleased poet present raillery reader reason Roger de Coverley says scenes sense shew Sir Roger speak SPECTATOR stage talk taste TATLER tell thing thorough-bass thought tion told town tragedy verse virtue whole woman women word writings young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 135 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Seite 19 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Seite 226 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Seite 132 - I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey ; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable.
Seite 133 - ... 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.
Seite 48 - Lacedemonians, that honest people, more virtuous than polite, rose up all to a man, and with the greatest respect 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 Lacedemonians practise it
Seite 22 - Tree, and in the theatres both of Drury Lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stock-jobbers at Jonathan's.
Seite 29 - ... the gallant Will Honeycomb, a gentleman who, according to his years, should be in the decline of his life, but having ever been very careful of his person, and always had a very easy fortune, time has made but very little impression, either by wrinkles on his forehead, or traces in his brain.
Seite 210 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon...
Seite 100 - English; and the angry sounds that were turned to rage in the original, were made to express pity in the translation. It oftentimes happened, likewise, that the finest notes in the air fell upon the most insignificant words in the sentence. I have known the word "and" pursued through the whole gamut; have been entertained with many a melodious "the;" and have heard the most beautiful graces, quavers, and divisions bestowed upon "then," "for," and "from," to the eternal honour of our English particles.