The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Band 1J. Crissy, 1824 |
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... talk , excuse generals , for not disposing according to men's desert , or inquir- ing into it : for , says he , that great man who has a mind to help me , has as many to break through to come at me , as I have to come at him : there ...
... talk , excuse generals , for not disposing according to men's desert , or inquir- ing into it : for , says he , that great man who has a mind to help me , has as many to break through to come at me , as I have to come at him : there ...
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... talk . In order to it , I shall treat on matters which relate to females , as they are concerned to approach or fly from the other sex , or as they are tied to them by blood , interest , or affection . Upon this occasion I think it but ...
... talk . In order to it , I shall treat on matters which relate to females , as they are concerned to approach or fly from the other sex , or as they are tied to them by blood , interest , or affection . Upon this occasion I think it but ...
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... talk of family affairs , a little boy at the lower end of the table , told her , that he was to go into join - hand on Thursday . Thursday ( says she ) no , child , if it please God , you shall not begin upon Childermas - day ; tell ...
... talk of family affairs , a little boy at the lower end of the table , told her , that he was to go into join - hand on Thursday . Thursday ( says she ) no , child , if it please God , you shall not begin upon Childermas - day ; tell ...
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... talk of , till about twelve o'clock in the morning ; for , by that time , they are pretty good judges of the weather , know which way the wind sits , and whether the Dutch mail be come in . As they lie at the mercy of the first man they ...
... talk of , till about twelve o'clock in the morning ; for , by that time , they are pretty good judges of the weather , know which way the wind sits , and whether the Dutch mail be come in . As they lie at the mercy of the first man they ...
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... Talk of a new married couple , and you immediately hear whe- ther they keep their coach and six , or eat in plate ; mention the name of an absent lady , and it is ten to one but you learn something of her gown and petticoat . A ball is ...
... Talk of a new married couple , and you immediately hear whe- ther they keep their coach and six , or eat in plate ; mention the name of an absent lady , and it is ten to one but you learn something of her gown and petticoat . A ball is ...
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Seite 30 - ... 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.
Seite 28 - In short, wherever I see a cluster of people I always mix with them, though I never open my lips but in my own club. Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind than as one of the species...
Seite 31 - 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. When he comes into a house he calls the servants by their names, and talks all the way upstairs to a visit.
Seite 28 - I am very well versed in the theory of a husband, or a father, and can discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them; as standers-by discover blots which are apt to escape those who are in the game.
Seite 217 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
Seite 73 - I have often thought there has not been sufficient pains taken in finding out proper employments and diversions for the fair ones. Their amusements seem contrived for them, rather as they are women than as they are reasonable creatures ; and are more adapted to the sex than to the species.
Seite 36 - ... been in the female world: as other men of his age will take notice to you what such a minister said upon such and such an occasion, he will tell you, when the Duke of Monmouth danced at court, such a woman was then smitten, another was taken with him at the head of his troop in the Park. In...
Seite 27 - 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 stock-jobbers at Jonathan's.
Seite 144 - Some of them were covered with such extravagant epitaphs, that if it were possible for the dead person to be acquainted with them, he would blush at the praises which his friends have bestowed upon him. There are others so excessively modest, that they deliver the character of the person departed in Greek or Hebrew, and by that means are not understood once in a twelvemonth. In the poetical quarter, I found there were poets who had no monuments, and monuments which had no poets.
Seite 30 - However, this humour creates him no enemies, for he does nothing with sourness or obstinacy; and his being unconfined to modes and forms makes him but the readier and more capable to please and oblige all who know him.