The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]: with a biogr. and critical preface, and notes1853 |
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... actions , and writings of the ancients , makes him a very delicate observer of what occurs to him in the present world . He is an excellent critic , and the time of the play is his hour of business ; exactly at five he passes through ...
... actions , and writings of the ancients , makes him a very delicate observer of what occurs to him in the present world . He is an excellent critic , and the time of the play is his hour of business ; exactly at five he passes through ...
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... actions , but very negligent of the consequences of them . It is an endless and a frivolous pursuit to act by any other rule , than the care of satisfying our own minds in what we do . One would think a silent man , who concerned ...
... actions , but very negligent of the consequences of them . It is an endless and a frivolous pursuit to act by any other rule , than the care of satisfying our own minds in what we do . One would think a silent man , who concerned ...
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... action of any importance is to have a prospect of public good ; and that the general tendency of our indifferent actions ought to be agreeable to the dictates of reason , of religion , of good breeding ; without this , a man , as I have ...
... action of any importance is to have a prospect of public good ; and that the general tendency of our indifferent actions ought to be agreeable to the dictates of reason , of religion , of good breeding ; without this , a man , as I have ...
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... actions , when we think ourselves most alone ; but instead of terrifying myself with such a notion , I am wonderfully pleased to think that I am always en- gaged with such an innumerable society , in searching out the wonders of the ...
... actions , when we think ourselves most alone ; but instead of terrifying myself with such a notion , I am wonderfully pleased to think that I am always en- gaged with such an innumerable society , in searching out the wonders of the ...
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... action . Could they make the same use of their arms and legs , and inform their faces with as significant looks and passions , how glo- rious would an English tragedy appear with that action which is capable of giving dignity to the ...
... action . Could they make the same use of their arms and legs , and inform their faces with as significant looks and passions , how glo- rious would an English tragedy appear with that action which is capable of giving dignity to the ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquaintance actions ADDISON admiration Æneid agreeable Alcibiades appear Aristotle beauty behaviour character club consider conversation creature delight desire discourse dress DRYDEN endeavour English entertainment Ephesian Matron eyes father favour fortune genius gentleman give greatest happy head hear heard heart honour hope Hudibras human humble servant humour Iliad innocent kind lady laugh learned letter live look lover mankind manner marriage master means mind nature never obliged observed occasion opera OVID paper Paradise Lost particular pass passion person Pharamond Plato pleased pleasure poem poet present proper racter reader reason ROGER DE COVERLEY Sappho sense shew Sir ROGER Socrates soul speak SPECTATOR speculations STEELE tell temper Theodosius thing thou thought tion told town turn VIRG Virgil virtue Whig whole woman women words write young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 306 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees anybody else nodding either wakes them himself or sends his servants to them.
Seite 306 - ... reprimand to the person that is absent. The chaplain has often told me, that upon a catechising day, when Sir Roger has been pleased with a boy that answers well, he has ordered a bible to be given him next day for his encouragement; and sometimes accompanies it with a flitch of bacon to his mother. Sir Roger has likewise added five pounds a year to the clerk's place ; and that he...
Seite 422 - O'er heaven's high towers to force resistless way, Turning our tortures into horrid arms Against the Torturer ; when to meet the noise Of his almighty engine he shall hear Infernal thunder, and for lightning see Black fire and horror shot with equal rage Among his angels ; and his throne itself Mixt with Tartarean sulphur and strange fire, His own invented torments.
Seite 290 - 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 backgammon. My friend...
Seite 12 - 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. When he comes into a house he calls the servants by their names, and talks all the way upstairs to a visit.
Seite 306 - ... 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 inquires...
Seite 303 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present. Were a human soul thus at...
Seite 307 - ... squire, who live in a perpetual state of war. The parson is always preaching at the 'squire; and the 'squire, to be revenged on the parson, never comes to church. The 'squire has made all his tenants atheists and...
Seite 32 - 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 coffee-houses.
Seite 283 - In a word, whatsoever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over ; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under an everlasting jealousy and suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly. When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast; and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.