The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...Bosworth, 1853 |
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... present century . All Englishmen are deeply indebted to those who have purified the public mind from that dreadful taint of immorality which infected it at the time when the first of the SPECTATORS appeared . These papers still charm us ...
... present century . All Englishmen are deeply indebted to those who have purified the public mind from that dreadful taint of immorality which infected it at the time when the first of the SPECTATORS appeared . These papers still charm us ...
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... present life , and fix their hopes on immortality , so earnest is his language , so noble his sentiments , that we could almost believe a messenger had come direct from heaven , to purify and beautify the world . And yet this scholar ...
... present life , and fix their hopes on immortality , so earnest is his language , so noble his sentiments , that we could almost believe a messenger had come direct from heaven , to purify and beautify the world . And yet this scholar ...
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... present wretchedness and the happiness he enjoyed when he was under the watchful eye of his illustrious cousin , whose advice he had disregarded , existence became intolerable to him , and he put an end to his life of shame and misery ...
... present wretchedness and the happiness he enjoyed when he was under the watchful eye of his illustrious cousin , whose advice he had disregarded , existence became intolerable to him , and he put an end to his life of shame and misery ...
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... present at the reading of Philips ' play of the " Distressed Mother , " and Addison carries Sir Roger to see it per- formed . Isaac Watts , a poet of a very different character from that of either Eusden , Tickell , or Philips , was the ...
... present at the reading of Philips ' play of the " Distressed Mother , " and Addison carries Sir Roger to see it per- formed . Isaac Watts , a poet of a very different character from that of either Eusden , Tickell , or Philips , was the ...
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... present age will be talking of your virtues , though posterity alone will do them justice . Other men pass through oppositions and contending interests in the ways of ambition ; but your great abilities have been in- vited to power ...
... present age will be talking of your virtues , though posterity alone will do them justice . Other men pass through oppositions and contending interests in the ways of ambition ; but your great abilities have been in- vited to power ...
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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.