The British Essayists: SpectatorC. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... fortunes can support any change in their equipage , not on those only whose incomes demand * Royal and princely mourners are clad in purple . the wantonness of new appearances ; but on such also 8 NO . 64 . SPECTATOR .
... fortunes can support any change in their equipage , not on those only whose incomes demand * Royal and princely mourners are clad in purple . the wantonness of new appearances ; but on such also 8 NO . 64 . SPECTATOR .
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... fortune be- stowed in the last act . To speak plainly of his whole work , I think nothing but being lost to a sense of innocence and virtue , can make any one see this comedy , without observ- ing more frequent occasion to move sorrow ...
... fortune be- stowed in the last act . To speak plainly of his whole work , I think nothing but being lost to a sense of innocence and virtue , can make any one see this comedy , without observ- ing more frequent occasion to move sorrow ...
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... I will make it no secret to you , that her person and edu- cation are to be her fortune . " I am , SIR , “ Your very humble servant , 66 CELIMENE . " " SIR , " BEING employed by Celimene to make 16 No. 66 . SPECTATOR .
... I will make it no secret to you , that her person and edu- cation are to be her fortune . " I am , SIR , “ Your very humble servant , 66 CELIMENE . " " SIR , " BEING employed by Celimene to make 16 No. 66 . SPECTATOR .
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... fortune , and , as Cicero calls it , Morum comitas , a pleasantness of temper . ' If I were to give my opinion upon such an exhausted subject , I should join to these other qualifications , a certain equability or evenness of behaviour ...
... fortune , and , as Cicero calls it , Morum comitas , a pleasantness of temper . ' If I were to give my opinion upon such an exhausted subject , I should join to these other qualifications , a certain equability or evenness of behaviour ...
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... fortunes , and at the same time promoting the public stock ; or , in other words , raising estates for their own families , by bringing into their country whatever is wanting , and carrying out of it whatever is superfluous . Nature ...
... fortunes , and at the same time promoting the public stock ; or , in other words , raising estates for their own families , by bringing into their country whatever is wanting , and carrying out of it whatever is superfluous . Nature ...
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Seite 204 - 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.
Seite 31 - If we consider our own country in its natural prospect, without any of the benefits and advantages of commerce, what a barren, uncomfortable spot of earth falls to our share ! Natural historians tell us, that no fruit grows .originally among us besides hips and haws, acorns and pig-nuts, with other delicacies of the like nature ; that our climate of itself, and without the assistances of art...
Seite 225 - ... the stage. Would an infinitely wise Being make such glorious creatures for so mean a purpose ? Can He delight in the production of such abortive intelligences, such short-lived reasonable beings ? Would He give us talents that are not to be exerted ? Capacities that are never to be gratified...
Seite 212 - Will Wimble's is the case of many a younger brother of a great family, who had rather see their children starve like gentlemen, than thrive in a trade or profession that is beneath their quality.
Seite 205 - Calamy, with several living authors, who have published discourses of practical divinity. I no sooner saw this venerable man in the pulpit, but I very much approved of my friend's insisting upon the qualifications of a good aspect and a clear voice ; for I was so charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and delivery, as well as with the discourses he pronounced, that I think I never passed any time more to my satisfaction. A sermon repeated after this manner, is like the composition of a poet...
Seite 202 - ROGER'S Family, because it consists of sober and staid Persons; for as the Knight is the best Master in the World, he seldom changes his Servants; and as he is beloved by all about him, his Servants never care for leaving him: By this Means his Domesticks are all in Years, and grown old with their Master. You would take his Valet...
Seite 130 - Man-like, but different sex ; so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the world, seem'd now Mean, or in her summ'd up...
Seite 58 - The noble earl was slain. He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth-yard long Up to the head drew he...
Seite 228 - He has often told me, that at his coming to his estate, he found his parishioners very irregular: and that in order to make them kneel, and join in the responses, he gave every one of them a hassock and a Common Prayer Book ; and at the same time employed an itinerant...
Seite 35 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet ; and yet it is sung by some blind Crowder with no rougher voice than rude style ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar...