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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... honours . The Lord Treasurer Godolphin happened one day to express his regret to Lord Halifax , that the Duke of Marlborough's victory at Blenheim had not been celebrated as it deserved ; and at the LIVES OF THE AUTHORS . xi.
... honours . The Lord Treasurer Godolphin happened one day to express his regret to Lord Halifax , that the Duke of Marlborough's victory at Blenheim had not been celebrated as it deserved ; and at the LIVES OF THE AUTHORS . xi.
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... honour of it by the greatest wits of the time ; and it was translated into several languages . At the death of Queen Anne he was made se- cretary to the Regency . In 1716 he married the Countess Dowager of Warwick , to whose son , it is ...
... honour of it by the greatest wits of the time ; and it was translated into several languages . At the death of Queen Anne he was made se- cretary to the Regency . In 1716 he married the Countess Dowager of Warwick , to whose son , it is ...
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... honour was of short duration ; he happened to give some umbrage to the Duke of Bolton , who succeeded to the office of Lord Lieutenant of Ire- land , and he was deprived of all his offices . To this misfortune was added the death of Mr ...
... honour was of short duration ; he happened to give some umbrage to the Duke of Bolton , who succeeded to the office of Lord Lieutenant of Ire- land , and he was deprived of all his offices . To this misfortune was added the death of Mr ...
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... honour ; in which he continued till 1740 , when he died on the 23d of April at Bath , leaving behind him the character of a man of gay conversation , at least a temperate lover of wine and company , and in his domestic relations without ...
... honour ; in which he continued till 1740 , when he died on the 23d of April at Bath , leaving behind him the character of a man of gay conversation , at least a temperate lover of wine and company , and in his domestic relations without ...
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... honours which have been conferred upon you . It is very well known how much the church cwed to you in the most dangerous day it ever saw , that of the arraignment of its prelates ; and how far the civil power , in the late and pre- sent ...
... honours which have been conferred upon you . It is very well known how much the church cwed to you in the most dangerous day it ever saw , that of the arraignment of its prelates ; and how far the civil power , in the late and pre- sent ...
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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.