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... virtue and knowledge , and by recommend- ing whatsoever may be either ufeful or ornamental to fociety . I know that the homage I now pay You , is offering a kind of vio- lence to one who is as folicitous to fhun applause , as he is ...
... virtue and knowledge , and by recommend- ing whatsoever may be either ufeful or ornamental to fociety . I know that the homage I now pay You , is offering a kind of vio- lence to one who is as folicitous to fhun applause , as he is ...
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... virtues , though pofterity alone will do them justice . Other men pass through oppo- fitions and contending interests in the ways of ambition ; but your great abilities have been invited to power , and importuned to ac- cept of ...
... virtues , though pofterity alone will do them justice . Other men pass through oppo- fitions and contending interests in the ways of ambition ; but your great abilities have been invited to power , and importuned to ac- cept of ...
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... virtue 34 On humour Letters from the playboufe , & c . Character of Leonora , and catalogue of her library 333333 31 32 33 35 36 37 On affectation On the ancient and modern tragedy On the CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME .
... virtue 34 On humour Letters from the playboufe , & c . Character of Leonora , and catalogue of her library 333333 31 32 33 35 36 37 On affectation On the ancient and modern tragedy On the CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME .
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... in pyramids on either fide of her : but this I did not fo much wonder at , when I heard , upon inquiry , that she had the fame virtue in her touch , which the poets tell us a Lydian king was formerly 20 N ° 3 . THE SPECTATOR .
... in pyramids on either fide of her : but this I did not fo much wonder at , when I heard , upon inquiry , that she had the fame virtue in her touch , which the poets tell us a Lydian king was formerly 20 N ° 3 . THE SPECTATOR .
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... virtue ! what a fpirit is there in those eyes ! what a bloom in that perfon ! how is the whole woman expreffed in her appearance ! her air has the beauty of motion , and her look the force of language . ' < " < It was prudence to turn ...
... virtue ! what a fpirit is there in those eyes ! what a bloom in that perfon ! how is the whole woman expreffed in her appearance ! her air has the beauty of motion , and her look the force of language . ' < " < It was prudence to turn ...
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admiration Æneid affembly againſt audience beauty becauſe behaviour beſt buſineſs club confideration converfation correfpondents defcribed defign defire difcourfe diverfion drefs endeavour English eyes faid falfe fame fatire fatisfaction fecret feems feen felves fenfe feve feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fign filk fince firft firſt flain fociety fome fomething fometimes foon fpeak fpeech ftage fubject fuch fure gentleman give greateſt heart herſelf himſelf houſe humble fervant humour itſelf kind lady laft laſt lefs likewife lion look mind miſtreſs moft moſt mufic muft muſt myſelf nature obferved occafion opera ourſelves OVID paffion pafs perfon Pharamond Pict pleafed pleaſed pleaſure poet prefent raiſed reader reafon reft reprefent ſcenes ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſpeak SPECTATOR ſtage thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thought tragedy ufual underſtanding uſe verfe whofe whole woman women words writing
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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.