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... together in the same common mass ; how beauty , strength , and youth , with old- age , weakness , and deformity , lay undistinguished in the same promiscuous heap of matter . After having thus surveyed this great magazine of mortality ...
... together in the same common mass ; how beauty , strength , and youth , with old- age , weakness , and deformity , lay undistinguished in the same promiscuous heap of matter . After having thus surveyed this great magazine of mortality ...
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acquaintance Addison admirable Aldersgate Street BEAU beauty began Bibliomania Bickerstaff Visits Bishop of Bristol Boethius called character club coffee-house cookery Covent Garden cries dear death dinner dish door drank dressed entertainment essay excellent fancy fellow gave genteel box gentleman George Selwyn George Smalridge give glass godmother Goldsmith good-breeding honour humour husband knew knockers laughed Les Précieuses Ridicules Lion lived look Lord manner melancholy Mohocks Molière never night nosegay observed occasion old butler old lady old lady's old Spanish pointer one's paper parish parlour perhaps piece Poems Rake's Progress readers replied Roger de Coverley scarcely season servant shew singing Sir Roger Smalridge sometimes song soon sort Spectator Steele Steele's story sure taste Tatler tears Thomas Rawlinson thought Tibbs assured tion told took town Upholsterer Visits a Friend voice walk water-works widow wine
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Seite 72 - Alas ! poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio ; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy ; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times ; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is ! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.
Seite xxv - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Seite 168 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Seite 72 - I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chapfallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i
Seite 169 - He is now in his fifty-sixth year, cheerful, gay, and hearty; keeps a good house both in 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 xxi - I perceived a tear fall down his cheek as he spoke, which moved me not a little. But, to turn the discourse, I said, 'She is not indeed quite that creature she was, when she returned me the letter I carried from you; and told me, "she hoped, as I was a gentleman, I would be employed no more to trouble her, who had never offended me; but would be so much the gentleman's friend, as to dissuade him from a pursuit, which he could never succeed in.
Seite 168 - His great grandfather was inventor of that famous countrydance 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.
Seite vii - The general purpose of this Paper is to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and affectation, and to recommend a general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour.
Seite 10 - Papa could not hear me, and would play with me no more, for they were going to put him under ground, whence he could never come to us again.
Seite 35 - This gentleman's temper is made out of such a happy mixture of the mild and the choleric, that he outdoes both his predecessors, and has drawn together greater audiences than have been known in the memory of man. I...