The British Essayists: The SpectatorJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son, W. J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, J. Sewell, R. Faulder, G. and W. Nicol, T. Payne, G. and J. Robinson, W. Lowndes, G. Wilkie, J. Mathews, P. McQueen, Ogilvy and Son, J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, Darton and Harvey, J. Nunn, Lackington and Company, D. Walker, Clarke and Son, G. Kearsley, C. Law, J. White, Longman and Rees, Cadell, Jun. and Davies, J. Barker, T. Kay, Wynne and Company, Pote and Company, Carpenter and Company, W. Miller, Murray and Highley, S. Bagster, T. Hurst, T. Boosey, R. Pheney, W. Baynes, J. Harding, R. H. Evans, J. Mawman; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1802 |
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... sometimes I am lost in a crowd of Jews ; and some- times make one in a group of Dutchmen . I am a Dane , Swede , or Frenchman at different times ; or rather fancy myself like the old philosopher , who upon being asked what countryman he ...
... sometimes I am lost in a crowd of Jews ; and some- times make one in a group of Dutchmen . I am a Dane , Swede , or Frenchman at different times ; or rather fancy myself like the old philosopher , who upon being asked what countryman he ...
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... Sometimes the vulgar see and judge aright . WHEN I travelled , I took a particular delight in hearing the songs and fables that are come from father to son , and are most in vogue among the common people of the countries through which I ...
... Sometimes the vulgar see and judge aright . WHEN I travelled , I took a particular delight in hearing the songs and fables that are come from father to son , and are most in vogue among the common people of the countries through which I ...
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... Sometimes they speak in raptures of a run of ale in king Charles's reign ; and sometimes reflect with astonishment upon games at whist , which have been miraculously recovered See the Leges Convivales of this club , in Langbaine's Lives ...
... Sometimes they speak in raptures of a run of ale in king Charles's reign ; and sometimes reflect with astonishment upon games at whist , which have been miraculously recovered See the Leges Convivales of this club , in Langbaine's Lives ...
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... sometimes exquisitely noble ; that the language is often very sounding , and that the whole is written with a true poetical spirit . If this song had been written in the Gothic man- ner , which is the delight of all our little wits ...
... sometimes exquisitely noble ; that the language is often very sounding , and that the whole is written with a true poetical spirit . If this song had been written in the Gothic man- ner , which is the delight of all our little wits ...
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... Sometimes in a morning he puts his whole family in a hurry , and at last goes out without being able to stay for his coach or dinner , and for that day , you may see him in every part of the town , except the very place where he had ...
... Sometimes in a morning he puts his whole family in a hurry , and at last goes out without being able to stay for his coach or dinner , and for that day , you may see him in every part of the town , except the very place where he had ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admire agreeable ALEXANDER CHALMERS animals appear beautiful behaviour body burning-glasses character club conversation court creatures daugh delight discourse Dorimant dress DRYDEN Earl Douglas endeavour Epig epigram Eucrate Eudoxus eyes face fair sex favour forbear fortune friend Sir Roger gentleman give Glaphyra greatest hand head hear heart honest honour humour 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 walk whig whole woman women words writing young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 221 - I AM always very well pleased with a country Sunday, and think, if keeping holy the seventh day were only a human institution, it would be the best method that could have been thought of for the polishing and civilizing of mankind.
Seite 239 - So flew"d, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Seite 223 - ... 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 195 - ... my friend Sir Roger, amidst all his good qualities, is something of an humorist; and that his virtues, as well as imperfections, are as it were tinged by a certain extravagance, which makes them particularly his, and distinguishes them from those of other men. This cast of...
Seite 203 - 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. As he is a good-natured officious fellow, and very much esteemed upon account of his family, he is a welcome guest at every house, and keeps up a good correspondence among all the gentlemen about him.
Seite 33 - Cowley ; so, on the contrary, an ordinary song or ballad that is the -delight of the common people, cannot fail to please all such readers as are not unqualified for the entertainment by their affectation or ignorance ; and the reason is plain, because the same paintings of nature. which recommend it to the most ordinary reader, will appear beautiful to the most refined.
Seite 54 - With fifteen hundred bowmen bold, All chosen men of might, Who knew full well in time of need To aim their shafts aright.
Seite 264 - 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 30 - Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate; our tables are stored with spices and oils and wines; our rooms are filled with pyramids of china, and adorned with the workmanship of Japan; our morning's draught comes to us from the remotest corners of the earth; we repair our bodies by the drugs of America, and repose ourselves under Indian canopies. My friend Sir Andrew calls the vineyards of France our gardens; the Spice Islands our hotbeds; the Persians our silkweavers; and the Chinese...
Seite 54 - Lo, yonder doth Earl Douglas come, His men in armour bright ; Full twenty hundred Scottish spears All marching in our sight ; All men of pleasant Teviotdale, Fast by the river Tweed...