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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... acquaint the reader , that , though our club meets only on Tuesdays and Thursdays , we have ap- pointed a committee to sit every night for the in- spection of all such papers as may contribute to the advancement of the public weal ...
... acquaint the reader , that , though our club meets only on Tuesdays and Thursdays , we have ap- pointed a committee to sit every night for the in- spection of all such papers as may contribute to the advancement of the public weal ...
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... acquaint- ance who had the same curiosity . Upon his asking what he had upon his shoulder , he told him , that he had been buying sparrows for the opera . ' Spar- rows for the opera ! ' says his friend , licking his lips , what , are ...
... acquaint- ance who had the same curiosity . Upon his asking what he had upon his shoulder , he told him , that he had been buying sparrows for the opera . ' Spar- rows for the opera ! ' says his friend , licking his lips , what , are ...
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... acquaint us in the same sublimity of style , that he composed this opera in a fortnight . Such are the wits , to whose tastes we so ambi- tiously conform ourselves . The truth of it is , the finest writers among the modern Italians ...
... acquaint us in the same sublimity of style , that he composed this opera in a fortnight . Such are the wits , to whose tastes we so ambi- tiously conform ourselves . The truth of it is , the finest writers among the modern Italians ...
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... acquaint- ance , I had the misfortune to find his whole fami- ly very much dejected . Upon asking him the oc- casion of it , he told me , that his wife had dreamed a strange dream the night before , which they were afraid portended some ...
... acquaint- ance , I had the misfortune to find his whole fami- ly very much dejected . Upon asking him the oc- casion of it , he told me , that his wife had dreamed a strange dream the night before , which they were afraid portended some ...
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... acquaint you with the predominant vice of every market- town in the whole island . I can tell you the progress that virtue has made in all our cities , boroughs , and corporations ; and know as well the evil practices that are committed ...
... acquaint you with the predominant vice of every market- town in the whole island . I can tell you the progress that virtue has made in all our cities , boroughs , and corporations ; and know as well the evil practices that are committed ...
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acquaint acrostics ADDISON admiration Æneid agreeable anagrams appear Aristotle audience beauty behaviour body called character Cicero club conversation daugh discourse dress DRYDEN endeavour English entertainment eyes face fair sex favour genius gentleman give hand head heard heart honour Hudibras humble servant humour Italian JOHN HENLEY kind king lady laugh learned letter lion live look Lord lover mankind manner master means mind mistress nature never night observed occasion opera OVID paper particular passion person Pharamond Pict play pleased pleasure poem poet present prince privy counsellors reader reason ROSCOMMON sense sion Sir Roger speak Spectator STEELE talk Tatler tell thing THOMAS TICKELL thors thou thought tion told town tragedy Tryphiodorus ture turn verses VIRG Virgil virtue Whig whole woman women words writing young
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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 180 - 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 258 - 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 181 - 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 260 - 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.