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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... tion is not known ; but in April 1701 he became a member of Queen's College , Oxford , was admit- ted to the degree of A. M. in 1708 , and two years afterwards was chosen fellow of his college . He entered early into the world , where ...
... tion is not known ; but in April 1701 he became a member of Queen's College , Oxford , was admit- ted to the degree of A. M. in 1708 , and two years afterwards was chosen fellow of his college . He entered early into the world , where ...
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... tion , would be a more proper work for a history than for an address of this nature . Your Lordship appears as great in your private * This was June 29 , 1688 , the day on which the seven bishops were tried , who had been committed to ...
... tion , would be a more proper work for a history than for an address of this nature . Your Lordship appears as great in your private * This was June 29 , 1688 , the day on which the seven bishops were tried , who had been committed to ...
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... tion . I am , MY LORD , Your Lordship's most obedient , Most devoted humble servant , THE SPECTATOR * The common editions read less meanly , which is evi- dently wrong . THE SPECTATOR . No. 1. THURSDAY , MARCH 1 , DEDICATION . XXV.
... tion . I am , MY LORD , Your Lordship's most obedient , Most devoted humble servant , THE SPECTATOR * The common editions read less meanly , which is evi- dently wrong . THE SPECTATOR . No. 1. THURSDAY , MARCH 1 , DEDICATION . XXV.
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... at pre- sent , and has been delivered down from father to son , whole and entire , without the loss or acquisi- tion of a single field or meadow , during the space of six hundred years ; there runs a story in THE SPECTATOR. ...
... at pre- sent , and has been delivered down from father to son , whole and entire , without the loss or acquisi- tion of a single field or meadow , during the space of six hundred years ; there runs a story in THE SPECTATOR. ...
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... tion in seeing ; and flatter myself that I have look- ed into the highest and lowest of mankind , and make shrewd guesses , without being admitted to their conversation , at the inmost thoughts and reflections of all whom I behold . It ...
... tion in seeing ; and flatter myself that I have look- ed into the highest and lowest of mankind , and make shrewd guesses , without being admitted to their conversation , at the inmost thoughts and reflections of all whom I behold . It ...
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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.