The British Essayists: SpectatorC. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... greater variety of conversations and adventures . But the Spectator , according to the first plan of it , was now drawing to a conclusion ; the seventh volume being finished about six weeks after the knight's death ; and perhaps the ...
... greater variety of conversations and adventures . But the Spectator , according to the first plan of it , was now drawing to a conclusion ; the seventh volume being finished about six weeks after the knight's death ; and perhaps the ...
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... greater felicity can genius attain , than that of having purified intellectual pleasure , separated mirth from indecency , and wit from licentiousness ; of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of ...
... greater felicity can genius attain , than that of having purified intellectual pleasure , separated mirth from indecency , and wit from licentiousness ; of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of ...
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... greater , if , unfortunately , when we look for his style , we did not at the same time look for his wit ; and where is that to be found * ? If his Moliere has been frequently named in the same rank with Addison . Lord Chesterfield ...
... greater , if , unfortunately , when we look for his style , we did not at the same time look for his wit ; and where is that to be found * ? If his Moliere has been frequently named in the same rank with Addison . Lord Chesterfield ...
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... greater writers . Yet how pleasing would it be to those who shall read the surprising revolutions in your story , to be made acquainted with your ordinary life and deport- ment ! How pleasing would it be to hear that the same man , who ...
... greater writers . Yet how pleasing would it be to those who shall read the surprising revolutions in your story , to be made acquainted with your ordinary life and deport- ment ! How pleasing would it be to hear that the same man , who ...
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... greater sense of your merit in general , and of the favours you every day do us , than , SIR , Your most obedient , and most humble servant , RICHARD STEELE . VOL . VIII . ΤΟ WILLIAM HONEYCOMB , ESQ * ORIGINAL DEDICATIONS . xci.
... greater sense of your merit in general , and of the favours you every day do us , than , SIR , Your most obedient , and most humble servant , RICHARD STEELE . VOL . VIII . ΤΟ WILLIAM HONEYCOMB , ESQ * ORIGINAL DEDICATIONS . xci.
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Seite xxvii - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Seite 47 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven, to inhabit among Men; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and in CoffeeHouses.
Seite 8 - ... town and country ; a great lover of mankind ; but there is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour, that he is rather beloved than esteemed. 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 203 - Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell Why thy canoniz'd bones, hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre, Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd, Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws To cast thee up again...
Seite 60 - 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. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator ! oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk, With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds, In full harmonic number join'd, their songs Divide the night,...
Seite 288 - 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...
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 122 - 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 tomb-stone, 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 221 - 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 6 - ... a gentleman of Worcestershire, of ancient descent, a baronet, his name Sir Roger de Coverley. His great grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance which is called after him. All who know that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger. He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world, only as he thinks the world is in the wrong.