The Spectator: ...J. Coote, 1778 |
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... said , that the lady on the throne would have been almost frighted to distraction , had the feen but any one of these spectres ; what then must have been her condition when she saw them all in a body ? she faint- ed and died away at the ...
... said , that the lady on the throne would have been almost frighted to distraction , had the feen but any one of these spectres ; what then must have been her condition when she saw them all in a body ? she faint- ed and died away at the ...
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... his left . The gentleman believed WILL was talking to himself , when upon my looking with great approbation at a young thing in a box before us , he said , " " I am quite of another opinion . She 24 N ° 4 . THE SPECTATOR .
... his left . The gentleman believed WILL was talking to himself , when upon my looking with great approbation at a young thing in a box before us , he said , " " I am quite of another opinion . She 24 N ° 4 . THE SPECTATOR .
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... said , ' I grant her dress is very becoming , but perhaps the merit ' of that choice is owing to her mother ; for though , ' continued he , I allow a beauty to be as much to be ' commended for the elegance of her drefs , as a wit ' for ...
... said , ' I grant her dress is very becoming , but perhaps the merit ' of that choice is owing to her mother ; for though , ' continued he , I allow a beauty to be as much to be ' commended for the elegance of her drefs , as a wit ' for ...
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... said very well upon that occafion , I do not hear that any of the performers in our opera pretend to equal the famous pied piper , who made all the mice of a great town in Germany follow his mufic , and by that means cleared the place ...
... said very well upon that occafion , I do not hear that any of the performers in our opera pretend to equal the famous pied piper , who made all the mice of a great town in Germany follow his mufic , and by that means cleared the place ...
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... said , that I think any one to blame for taking due care of their health . On the contrary , as chearfulness of mind , and capacity for business , are in a great measure the effects of a well- tempered conftitution , a man cannot be at ...
... said , that I think any one to blame for taking due care of their health . On the contrary , as chearfulness of mind , and capacity for business , are in a great measure the effects of a well- tempered conftitution , a man cannot be at ...
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Seite 107 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.
Seite 12 - I have acted in all the parts of my life as a looker-on, which is the character I intend to preserve in this paper.
Seite 106 - I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous minds and gloomy imaginations ; but for my own part, though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view of nature, in her deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones.
Seite 35 - In the midst of these my musings, she desired me to reach her a little salt upon the point of my knife, which I did in such a trepidation and hurry of obedience, that I let it drop by the way, at which she immediately startled, and said it fell towards her.
Seite 273 - ... common interest. Almost every degree produces something peculiar to it ; the food often grows in one country, and the sauce in another. The fruits of Portugal are corrected by the products of Barbadoes. The infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian cane.
Seite 30 - ... stage might be as much infested with mice, as the prince of the island was before the cat's arrival upon it; for which reason he would not permit it to be acted in his house. And indeed I cannot blame him: for, as he said very well upon that occasion, I do not hear that any of the performers in our opera pretend to equal the famous pied piper, who made all the mice of a great town in Germany follow his music, and by that means cleared the place of those little noxious animals.
Seite 17 - With this candour does the gentleman speak of himself and others. The same frankness runs through all his conversation. The military part of his life has...
Seite 9 - 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 200 - I could not observe any circumstance of devotion in their behaviour. There was indeed a man in black, who was mounted above the rest, and seemed to utter something with a great deal of vehemence ; but as for those underneath him, instead of paying their worship to the deity of the place, they were most of them bowing and curtseying to one another, and a considerable number of them fast asleep.
Seite 275 - So, on the contrary, an ordinary Song or Ballad that is the Delight of the common People, cannot fail to please all such Readers as are not unqualified for the Entertainment by their Affectation or Ignorance; and the Reason is plain, because the same Paintings of Nature which recommend it to the most ordinary Reader, will appear Beautiful to the most refined.