The SpectatorT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811 |
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... 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 kind glance or a blow of a fan from some celebrated beauty , mother ...
... 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 kind glance or a blow of a fan from some celebrated beauty , mother ...
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... woman unluckily observed there were thirteen of us in com- pany . This remark struck a panic terror into several who were present , insomuch that one or two of the ladies were going to leave the room ; but a friend of mine taking notice ...
... woman unluckily observed there were thirteen of us in com- pany . This remark struck a panic terror into several who were present , insomuch that one or two of the ladies were going to leave the room ; but a friend of mine taking notice ...
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... woman of quality to Bridewell , or a peer of Great Britain , to the Counter ; besides , their numbers are so very great , that I am afraid they would be able to rout our whole fraternity , though we were accom- panied with all our guard ...
... woman of quality to Bridewell , or a peer of Great Britain , to the Counter ; besides , their numbers are so very great , that I am afraid they would be able to rout our whole fraternity , though we were accom- panied with all our guard ...
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... a nearer examination , I found they were a sisterhood of coquettes disguised in that precise habit . I was soon after taken out to dance , and , as I fancied , by a woman 圈 of the first quality , for she was very 26 No. 8 . SPECTATOR .
... a nearer examination , I found they were a sisterhood of coquettes disguised in that precise habit . I was soon after taken out to dance , and , as I fancied , by a woman 圈 of the first quality , for she was very 26 No. 8 . SPECTATOR .
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... woman , who has a great many children , and complies with my humour in every thing . I do not remember that we have ex- changed a word together these five years ; my coffee comes into my chamber every morning without asking for it ; if ...
... woman , who has a great many children , and complies with my humour in every thing . I do not remember that we have ex- changed a word together these five years ; my coffee comes into my chamber every morning without asking for it ; if ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquainted acrostics admiration Æneid Alcibiades anagrams ancient appear Aristotle audience beautiful behaviour body Castilian Cicero club consider Constantia conversation creatures daugh death delight discourse dress endeavour English entertained Eudoxus fancy father filled forbear friend Sir Roger genius gentleman give Glaphyra greatest head hear heard heart Herod honour human humour Italian kind king lady laugh letter likewise live look mankind manner Mariamne marriage means mind nation nature neral never night observed occasion opera ordinary OVID paper particular passion person Pindar Plato pleased pleasure poet proper racter reader reason religion renegado ridiculous satire says sense shew short side Socrates soul species SPECTATOR speculation tell temper Theodosius thing thou thought tion told town tragedy turn verse VIRG Virgil virtue Whig whole woman women words writers
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 39 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Seite 374 - The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me : my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor : and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Seite 374 - If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me ; what then shall I do when God riseth Up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him ? Did not he that made me in the womb, make him ? and did not one fashion us in the womb...
Seite 324 - ... that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire. There were indeed some persons, but their number was very small, that continued a kind of hobbling march on the broken arches, but fell through one after another, being quite tired and spent with so long a walk.
Seite 324 - Examine now, said he, this sea that is bounded with darkness at both ends, and tell me what thou discoverest in it. I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide.
Seite 105 - 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 373 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Seite 323 - I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.
Seite 334 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Seite 257 - 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.