The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...Bosworth, 1853 |
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... common people had nothing to read . The Church neglected them , the rich despised them . It would have been well if , when there was so little real religion , there had been as little bigotry ; but at no time were the English so bigoted ...
... common people had nothing to read . The Church neglected them , the rich despised them . It would have been well if , when there was so little real religion , there had been as little bigotry ; but at no time were the English so bigoted ...
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... common symptom of a vagabondism , a passion for military life , and as his friends repeatedly refused to purchase him a commission , he boldly enlisted himself as a private in the Guards . By this step , Dick offended a rich relative ...
... common symptom of a vagabondism , a passion for military life , and as his friends repeatedly refused to purchase him a commission , he boldly enlisted himself as a private in the Guards . By this step , Dick offended a rich relative ...
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... Common sense , however , requires that there should be nothing in the scenes and machines which may appear childish and absurd . How would the wits of King Charles's time have laughed to see Nicolini exposed to a tempest in robes of ...
... Common sense , however , requires that there should be nothing in the scenes and machines which may appear childish and absurd . How would the wits of King Charles's time have laughed to see Nicolini exposed to a tempest in robes of ...
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... common . It has dif fused itself through both sexes , and all qualities of mankind ; and there is hardly that person to be found , who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense , than of honesty and virtue . But this ...
... common . It has dif fused itself through both sexes , and all qualities of mankind ; and there is hardly that person to be found , who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense , than of honesty and virtue . But this ...
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... common , than that we run in perfect contradiction to them ? All which is sup ported by no other pretension , than that it is done with what we call a good grace . Nothing ought to be held laudable or becoming , but what nature itself ...
... common , than that we run in perfect contradiction to them ? All which is sup ported by no other pretension , than that it is done with what we call a good grace . Nothing ought to be held laudable or becoming , but what nature itself ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 1 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Seite 370 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded " ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lap'd like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly : Judge, when you hear.
Seite 340 - HAVING often received an invitation from my friend Sir Roger de Coverley, to pass away a month with him in the country, I last week accompanied him thither, and am settled with him for some time at his countryhouse, where I intend to form several of my ensuing speculations. Sir Roger, who is very well acquainted with my humour, lets me rise and go to bed when I please, dine at his own table or in my chamber as I think fit, sit still and say nothing without bidding me be merry. When the gentlemen...
Seite 356 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.
Seite 197 - For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being mis-led by similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another.
Seite 356 - But a man can never have taken in his full measure of knowledge, has not time to subdue his passions, establish his soul in virtue, and come up to the perfection of his nature, before he is hurried off the stage.
Seite 225 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet: and yet it is sung by some blind crowder with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?
Seite 6 - 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 293 - With what all Earth or Heaven could bestow To make her amiable...
Seite 359 - ... the death of the present incumbent, who is very old, to bestow it according to merit. The fair understanding between Sir Roger and his chaplain, and their mutual concurrence in doing good, is the more remarkable because the very next village is famous for the differences and contentions that rise between the parson and the "squire, who live in a perpetual state of war. The parson is always preaching at the 'squire; and the 'squire, to be revenged on the parson, never comes to church.