The Spectator [by J. Addison and others] with sketches of the lives of the authors, and explanatory notes. 12 vols. [in 6]., Bände 1-21853 |
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Spectator The. PREFACE . PERHAPS there is no book in the English lan- guage that has been so generally read and admired as the Spectator . It was so popular at the time of its publication , that twenty thousand papers were sometimes sold ...
Spectator The. PREFACE . PERHAPS there is no book in the English lan- guage that has been so generally read and admired as the Spectator . It was so popular at the time of its publication , that twenty thousand papers were sometimes sold ...
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... English nation . If he himself borrowed it from foreign writers , of which we are by no means certain , we must allow that he had the merit of highly improving a plan which before was imperfectly sketched . But the merit of Steele is ...
... English nation . If he himself borrowed it from foreign writers , of which we are by no means certain , we must allow that he had the merit of highly improving a plan which before was imperfectly sketched . But the merit of Steele is ...
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... English stage . It was repeated thirty - five nights in succession , amidst the re- sounding plaudits both of the Whigs and the Tories . Panegyrics were written in honour of it by the greatest wits of the time ; and it was translated ...
... English stage . It was repeated thirty - five nights in succession , amidst the re- sounding plaudits both of the Whigs and the Tories . Panegyrics were written in honour of it by the greatest wits of the time ; and it was translated ...
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... difference in the works of the two nations ; but , to show that there is nothing in this , if we look into the writ ings of the old Italians , such as Cicero and Vir gil , we shall find that the English writers , No. 5 . 53 THE SPECTATOR .
... difference in the works of the two nations ; but , to show that there is nothing in this , if we look into the writ ings of the old Italians , such as Cicero and Vir gil , we shall find that the English writers , No. 5 . 53 THE SPECTATOR .
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Seite 242 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Seite 155 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Seite 182 - Manlike, 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 260 - 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 domestics are all in years, and grown old with their master. You would take his valet...
Seite 262 - 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 183 - Yet innocence and virgin modesty, Her virtue, and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won, Not obvious, not obtrusive, but...
Seite 30 - 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 262 - At his first settling with me I made him a present of all the good sermons which have been printed in English, and only begged of him that every Sunday he would pronounce one of them in the pulpit. Accordingly he has digested them into such a series that they follow one another naturally, and make a continued system of practical divinity.
Seite 34 - ... 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...
Seite 152 - ... 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.