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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... tell you that it is a stupid and bar- barous way to extend dominion by arms , for true power is to be got by arts and industry . He will often argue , that if this part of our trade were well cultivated , we should gain from one nation ...
... tell you that it is a stupid and bar- barous way to extend dominion by arms , for true power is to be got by arts and industry . He will often argue , that if this part of our trade were well cultivated , we should gain from one nation ...
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... tell you , when the Duke of Mon- mouth danced at court , such a woman was then smitten , another was taken with him at the head of his troop in the Park . In all these important relations , he has ever about the same time received a ...
... tell you , when the Duke of Mon- mouth danced at court , such a woman was then smitten , another was taken with him at the head of his troop in the Park . In all these important relations , he has ever about the same time received a ...
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Spectator The. I can not tell whether I am to account him whom I am next to speak of as one of our company ; for he visits us but seldom ; but when he does , it adds to every one else a new enjoyment of himself . He is a clergyman , a ...
Spectator The. I can not tell whether I am to account him whom I am next to speak of as one of our company ; for he visits us but seldom ; but when he does , it adds to every one else a new enjoyment of himself . He is a clergyman , a ...
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... tell your writing - mas- ter , that Friday will be soon enough . ' I was re- flecting with myself on the oddness of her fancy , and wondering that any body would establish it as a rule to lose a day in every week . In the midst of these ...
... tell your writing - mas- ter , that Friday will be soon enough . ' I was re- flecting with myself on the oddness of her fancy , and wondering that any body would establish it as a rule to lose a day in every week . In the midst of these ...
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... 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 in Berwick or Exeter , as what is done in my own family . In a word , Sir , I have my ...
... 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 in Berwick or Exeter , as what is done in my own family . In a word , Sir , I have my ...
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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.