The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical and Critical, Bände 5-6T. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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... speaking . I have studied and writ on this important subject , until I almost despair of making reformation in the females of this island ; where we have more beauty than in any spot in the universe , if we did not disguise it by false ...
... speaking . I have studied and writ on this important subject , until I almost despair of making reformation in the females of this island ; where we have more beauty than in any spot in the universe , if we did not disguise it by false ...
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... speaking agreeably to a fine woman , or from any degree of generosity that way . You have among us citizens many well - wishers ; but it is for the jus- tice of your representations , which we , perhaps , are better judges of than you ...
... speaking agreeably to a fine woman , or from any degree of generosity that way . You have among us citizens many well - wishers ; but it is for the jus- tice of your representations , which we , perhaps , are better judges of than you ...
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... speak more in- telligibly , a State Weather - glass , that , by the rising and falling of a certain magical liquor , presages all changes and revolutions in government , as the com- mon glass does of the weather . This Weather- glass is ...
... speak more in- telligibly , a State Weather - glass , that , by the rising and falling of a certain magical liquor , presages all changes and revolutions in government , as the com- mon glass does of the weather . This Weather- glass is ...
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... speaking things to her husband which gave me much disturb- ance , and put me in mind of a character which I wonder I have so long omitted , and that is , an out- rageous species of the fair sex , which is distinguished by the term ...
... speaking things to her husband which gave me much disturb- ance , and put me in mind of a character which I wonder I have so long omitted , and that is , an out- rageous species of the fair sex , which is distinguished by the term ...
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... enemies say of you ; and court you , as they think , by uttering to your face , at a wrong time , all the kind things your friends speak of you in your absence . These people are the more dreadful , the more they N ° 219 . 39 TATLER .
... enemies say of you ; and court you , as they think , by uttering to your face , at a wrong time , all the kind things your friends speak of you in your absence . These people are the more dreadful , the more they N ° 219 . 39 TATLER .
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquaintance ADDISON admiration agreeable appear Aristotle audience beauty behaviour BICKERSTAFF BUDGELL Censor character club coffee-house conversation Court of Honour discourse dress endeavour English entertainment Ephesian Matron Esquire eyes farther favour folly fortune genius gentleman George Etheridge give hand hear heard heart hour Hudibras humble servant humour Hungary water impertinent ISAAC BICKERSTAFF Italian kind King lady laugh letter likewise lion live look Lord lover mankind manner means mind morning nature never night nose obliged observed occasion offended opera ordinary OVID paper particular passion periwig person Pict pleased pleasure poet present prosecutor racter reader reason Roger de Coverley sense shew Siege of Damascus Sir Roger speak SPECTATOR STEELE talk Tatler tell thing thought tion told town tragedy VIRG virtue whole woman words writings young
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Seite 196 - Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Seite 7 - 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 31 - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Seite 13 - Temple, a man of great probity, wit, and understanding ; but he has chosen his place of residence rather to obey the direction of an old humoursome father, than in pursuit of his own inclinations. He was placed there to study the laws of the land, and is the most learned of any of the house in those of the stage.
Seite 214 - 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 118 - I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey ; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable.
Seite 10 - 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 110 - Assaying by his devilish art to reach the organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions, as he list, phantasms and dreams ; Or if, inspiring venom, he might taint The animal spirits, that from pure blood arise Like gentle breaths from rivers pure...
Seite 118 - WHEN I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people...
Seite 186 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.