The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Band 7 |
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... without observ . ing more frequent occasion to move sorrow and in- * He also was a real person , and got vast employment by the representation of him in this play . dignation , than mirth and laughter . At the same 22 No 65 . SPECTATOR .
... without observ . ing more frequent occasion to move sorrow and in- * He also was a real person , and got vast employment by the representation of him in this play . dignation , than mirth and laughter . At the same 22 No 65 . SPECTATOR .
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... frequently observe a man's life is half spent before he is taken notice of ; and a woman in the prime of her years is out of fashion and neglected . The boy I shall consider upon some other occasion , and at present stick to the girl ...
... frequently observe a man's life is half spent before he is taken notice of ; and a woman in the prime of her years is out of fashion and neglected . The boy I shall consider upon some other occasion , and at present stick to the girl ...
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... frequent as the Royal Exchange . It gives me a secret satisfaction , and in some measure grati- fies my vanity , as I am an Englishman , to see so rich an assembly of countrymen and foreigners , consult- ing together upon the private ...
... frequent as the Royal Exchange . It gives me a secret satisfaction , and in some measure grati- fies my vanity , as I am an Englishman , to see so rich an assembly of countrymen and foreigners , consult- ing together upon the private ...
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... frequently visit this busy multitude of people , I am known to nobody there but my friend Sir Andrew , who often smiles upon me as he sees me bustling in the crowd , but at the same time connives at my presence without taking further no ...
... frequently visit this busy multitude of people , I am known to nobody there but my friend Sir Andrew , who often smiles upon me as he sees me bustling in the crowd , but at the same time connives at my presence without taking further no ...
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... frequently talked of in the club , and look- ed upon by every member of it as a greater man , than the famous captain mentioned in my Lord Cla- rendon , who was burnt in his ship because he would not quit it without orders . It is said ...
... frequently talked of in the club , and look- ed upon by every member of it as a greater man , than the famous captain mentioned in my Lord Cla- rendon , who was burnt in his ship because he would not quit it without orders . It is said ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admire agreeable animals appear beautiful behaviour body burning-glasses character club conversation court creatures daugh delight discourse Dorimant dress DRYDEN Earl Douglas endeavour Epidaurus Epig epigram Eucrate Eudoxus eyes face fair sex favour Flavia forbear fortune friend Sir Roger gentleman give Glaphyra good-breeding greatest hand head hear heard heart honest honour humour husband idol imagination kind knight labour lady Laertes letter live look lover mankind manner master mind nature neral never observe occasion ordinary OVID particular pass passion person Phara Pharamond physiognomist Platonic love pleased pleasure poet present prince proper reader reason seems sense servants shew soul speak spect SPECTATOR Steenkirk tell temper thing thou thought tion Tmolus told town turn VIRG Virgil virtue walking whig whole woman women words writing young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 136 - Manlike, but different sex, so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the World, seem'd now Mean, or in her summ'd up...
Seite 235 - ... than blemish his good qualities. As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side, and every- now and then...
Seite 225 - The ideas of goblins and sprights have really no more to do with darkness than light : yet let but a foolish maid inculcate these often on the mind of a child, and raise them there together, possibly , he shall never be able to separate them again so long as he lives ; but darkness shall ever afterwards bring with it those frightful ideas, and they shall be so joined, that he can no more bear the one than the other...
Seite 232 - That cherubim, which now appears as a god to a human soul, knows very well that the period will come about in eternity, when the human soul shall be as perfect as he himself now is; nay, when she shall look down upon that degree of perfection as much as she now falls short of it.
Seite 216 - ... of his game. He hunts a pack of dogs better than any man in the country, and is very famous for finding out a hare. He is extremely well versed in all the little handicrafts of an idle man : he makes a May-fly to a miracle ; and furnishes the whole country with angle-rods.
Seite 280 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself, seconded by the applauses of the public.
Seite 232 - ... as much as she now falls short of it. It is true, the higher nature still advances, and by that means preserves his distance...
Seite 211 - ... 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 in the mouth of a graceful actor.
Seite 210 - I know his value, have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than perhaps he thinks he is. He has now been with me thirty years; and, though he does...
Seite 218 - Will Wimble's is the case of many a younger brother of a great family, who had rather see their children starve like gentlemen than thrive in a trade or profession that is beneath their quality.