The SpectatorPutnam, 1856 |
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... kind glance or a blow of a fan from some celebrated beauty , mother of the present Lord such - a - one . If you speak of a young commoner that said a lively thing in the house , he starts up , " He has good blood in his veins : Tom ...
... kind glance or a blow of a fan from some celebrated beauty , mother of the present Lord such - a - one . If you speak of a young commoner that said a lively thing in the house , he starts up , " He has good blood in his veins : Tom ...
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... kind of methodical dream , which disposed all my contemplations into a vision or allegory , or what else the reader shall please to call it . Methoughts I returned to the great hall , where I had been the morning before , but , to my ...
... kind of methodical dream , which disposed all my contemplations into a vision or allegory , or what else the reader shall please to call it . Methoughts I returned to the great hall , where I had been the morning before , but , to my ...
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... kind of fellow , with an unfortunate aspect . For which reason I took my leave immediately after dinner , and withdrew to my own lodgings . Upon my return home , I fell into a profound contemplation of the evils that attend these ...
... kind of fellow , with an unfortunate aspect . For which reason I took my leave immediately after dinner , and withdrew to my own lodgings . Upon my return home , I fell into a profound contemplation of the evils that attend these ...
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... kind among her friends and neighbours . I know a maiden aunt of a great family , who is one of these anti- quated Sibyls , that forebodes and prophecies from one end of the year to the other . She is always seeing apparitions , and ...
... kind among her friends and neighbours . I know a maiden aunt of a great family , who is one of these anti- quated Sibyls , that forebodes and prophecies from one end of the year to the other . She is always seeing apparitions , and ...
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... kind of awe and respect , as well as love , into their male . beholders . I hope to increase the number of these by publish- ing this daily paper , which I shall always endeavour to make an innocent if not an improving entertainment ...
... kind of awe and respect , as well as love , into their male . beholders . I hope to increase the number of these by publish- ing this daily paper , which I shall always endeavour to make an innocent if not an improving entertainment ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acrostics Addison admiration Æneid anagrams ancient Antanaclasis appear audience Avarice beautiful behaviour body Boileau called club Coan wines conversation creatures delight discourse dress DRYDEN Earl Douglas endeavour English entertainment epigram false wit figure filled forbear friend Sir Roger genius gentleman give Glaphyra hand head heart honour Hudibras humour ingenious insomuch Italian John Simmonds kings ladies language laugh learned letter likewise lion live look lover manner means Milston mind Mohocks nation nature never night observe occasion opera Ovid paper particular passion person piece pleased poem poet present reader reason rhymes ridicule ROSCOMMON says scenes sense shew short side soul speak Spect Spectator stage Tatler tell thing thou thought tion told tragedy Tryphiodorus verse VIRG Virgil virtue Whig whole woman women words writers
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 82 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Seite 12 - It is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him.
Seite 222 - The noble earl was slain. He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth-yard long Up to the head drew he...
Seite 290 - I was walking with him last night, he asked me how I liked the good man whom I have just now mentioned ? and without staying for my answer told me. that he was afraid of being insulted with Latin and Greek at his own table ; for which reason he desired a particular friend of his at the university to find him out a clergyman rather of plain sense than much learning, of a good aspect, a clear voice, a sociable temper, and, if possible, a man that understood a little of back-gammon.
Seite 289 - My chief companion, when Sir Roger is diverting himself in the woods or the fields, is a very venerable man, who is ever with Sir Roger, and has lived at his house in the nature of a chaplain above thirty years. This gentleman is a person of good sense and some learning, of a very regular life and obliging conversation : he heartily loves Sir Roger, and knows that he is very much in the old knight's esteem ; so that he lives in the family rather as a relation than a dependant.
Seite 6 - Cocoa-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 stockjobbers at Jonathan's.
Seite 435 - If I did despise the cause of my man-servant 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...
Seite 291 - Calamy, with several living authors, who have published discourses of practical divinity. I no sooner saw this venerable man in the pulpit, but I very much approved of my friend's insisting upon the qualifications of a good aspect and a clear voice ; for I was so charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and delivery, as well as with the discourses he pronounced, that I think I never passed any time more to my satisfaction. A sermon repeated after this manner, is like the composition of a poet...
Seite 288 - You see the goodness of the master even in the old house-dog, and in a gray pad that is kept in the stable with great care and tenderness out of regard to his past services, though he has been useless for several years.
Seite 7 - Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species...