The Spectator, Band 2J. Tonson, 1729 |
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... most elaborate of his Pieces was at best but a terrifying Dream ; and one could say nothing more of his fineft Figures , than that they were agreeable Mon- fters . THE fourth Perfon I examined , was very remarka- ble for his hafty Hand ...
... most elaborate of his Pieces was at best but a terrifying Dream ; and one could say nothing more of his fineft Figures , than that they were agreeable Mon- fters . THE fourth Perfon I examined , was very remarka- ble for his hafty Hand ...
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... from the Oppreffion he was under ; and with the most beautiful Complacency faid to him , " Sir , do not add to that Load of Sorrow I fee in your Countenance · the દર · " the Awe of my Prefence : Think N ° 847 19 The SPECTATOR .
... from the Oppreffion he was under ; and with the most beautiful Complacency faid to him , " Sir , do not add to that Load of Sorrow I fee in your Countenance · the દર · " the Awe of my Prefence : Think N ° 847 19 The SPECTATOR .
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... most refined Writers of our present Age who are of the fame Humour . I might likewife refer my Reader to Moliere's Thoughts on this Subject , as he has expreffed them in the Chara- ter of the Mifanthrope ; but those only who are endow ...
... most refined Writers of our present Age who are of the fame Humour . I might likewife refer my Reader to Moliere's Thoughts on this Subject , as he has expreffed them in the Chara- ter of the Mifanthrope ; but those only who are endow ...
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... most lafting and more ornamental . I have feen many an amiable Piece of Deformity , and have obferved a certain Chearfulness in as bad a Syftem of Features as ever was clapped to- gether , which hath appeared more lovely than all the ...
... most lafting and more ornamental . I have feen many an amiable Piece of Deformity , and have obferved a certain Chearfulness in as bad a Syftem of Features as ever was clapped to- gether , which hath appeared more lovely than all the ...
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... most untractable People of all others . You are fo exceffively perplexed with the Particularities in their Behaviour , that , to be at Ease , one would be apt to wish there were no fuch Creatures . They expect fo great Allowances , and ...
... most untractable People of all others . You are fo exceffively perplexed with the Particularities in their Behaviour , that , to be at Ease , one would be apt to wish there were no fuch Creatures . They expect fo great Allowances , and ...
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Seite 115 - Sometimes he will be lengthening out a verse in the singing psalms, half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it; sometimes when he is pleased with the matter of his devotion, he pronounces
Seite 287 - Some were looking up towards the heavens in a thoughtful posture, and in the midst of a speculation stumbled and fell out of sight. Multitudes were very busy in the pursuit of bubbles that glittered in their eyes and danced before them, but often when they thought themselves within the reach of them their footing failed and down they sunk.
Seite 289 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.
Seite 116 - Sunday in the dignity of his order, and insinuates to them in almost every sermon that he is a better man than his patron. In short, matters are come to such an extremity, that the squire has not said his prayers either in public or private this half year; and that the parson threatens him, if he does not mend his manners, to pray for him in the face of the whole congregation.
Seite 95 - My chief companion, when Sir Roger is diverting himself in the woods or the fields, is a very venerable man who is ever with Sir Roger, and has lived at his house in the nature of a chaplain above thirty years. This gentleman is a person of good sense and some learning, of a very regular life and obliging conversation: he heartily loves Sir Roger, and knows that he is very much in the old knight's esteem, so that he lives in the family rather as...
Seite 287 - I here fetched a deep sigh; Alas, said I, man was made in vain! How is he given away to misery and mortality! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death! The Genius, being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect; Look no more...
Seite 97 - As Sir Roger was going on in his story, the gentleman we were talking of came up to us ; and upon the knight's asking him who preached to-morrow (for it was Saturday night), told us, the Bishop of St. Asaph in the morning, and Dr. South in the afternoon. He then showed us his list of preachers for the whole year, where I saw, with a great deal of pleasure.
Seite 286 - As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon further examination, perceived there were innumerable trap-doors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon, but* they fell through them into the tide and immediately disappeared.
Seite 153 - Upon his first rising the court was hushed, and a general whisper ran among the country people, that Sir Roger < was up. ' The speech he made was so little to the purpose, that I shall not trouble my readers with an account of it; and I believe was not so much designed by the knight himself to inform the court, as to give him a figure in my eye, and keep up his credit in the country.
Seite 116 - 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...