The Spectator, Volume 1George Atherton Aitken John C. Nimmo, 1898 |
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Pagina xxix
... delightful name in nature.'8 ' There is nothing of so great importance to us , ' Addison wrote , " as the good qualities of one to whom we join ourselves for life ; they do not only make our present state agreeable , but often determine ...
... delightful name in nature.'8 ' There is nothing of so great importance to us , ' Addison wrote , " as the good qualities of one to whom we join ourselves for life ; they do not only make our present state agreeable , but often determine ...
Pagina 27
... his successors equalled Nicolini , who , by pleasing the eye as well as the ear , filled us with a more various and rational delight . ' 1 " with painted dragons spitting wildfire , enchanted chariots drawn by No. 5 27 The SPECTATOR.
... his successors equalled Nicolini , who , by pleasing the eye as well as the ear , filled us with a more various and rational delight . ' 1 " with painted dragons spitting wildfire , enchanted chariots drawn by No. 5 27 The SPECTATOR.
Pagina 28
... to act the part of singing - birds in a delightful grove ; though upon a nearer inquiry I found the sparrows put the same trick upon the audience that Sir Martin Mar - all practised upon his mistress ; for , 28 No. 5 The SPECTATOR.
... to act the part of singing - birds in a delightful grove ; though upon a nearer inquiry I found the sparrows put the same trick upon the audience that Sir Martin Mar - all practised upon his mistress ; for , 28 No. 5 The SPECTATOR.
Pagina 36
... delightful , and what we aim at easily attainable . I do not doubt but England is at present as polite a nation as any in the world ; but any man who thinks can easily see that the affectation of being gay and in fashion has very near ...
... delightful , and what we aim at easily attainable . I do not doubt but England is at present as polite a nation as any in the world ; but any man who thinks can easily see that the affectation of being gay and in fashion has very near ...
Pagina 61
... delight in the opposition of its colour to that of her fingers ; then open his bosom , then laugh at him for cover- ing it . She was , it seems , a person of distinction , for she every day came to him in a different dress , of the most ...
... delight in the opposition of its colour to that of her fingers ; then open his bosom , then laugh at him for cover- ing it . She was , it seems , a person of distinction , for she every day came to him in a different dress , of the most ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
acquaint acrostics Addison admiration Æneid agreeable ancient appear assembly audience Bartholomew Fair beautiful behaviour Bouts-Rimés called character Chevy Chase club Coffee-House conversation Covent Garden dance delight discourse dress endeavour English entertainment eyes false favour folio French genius gentleman give hand heart hero Hockley-in-the-Hole honour Hudibras humble Servant humour Isaac Bickerstaff Italian kind King Kit-Cat Club lady laugh learned letter lion live look Lord lover mankind manner mind mistress nature never night observed occasion opera OVID paper passion person Pharamond Pict play pleased pleasure poem poet present prince reader reason Richard Steele ridicule says scenes sense Sir George Etherege Sir Roger speak Spectator stage Steele Steele's talk Tatler tell things thought tion told town tragedy translated Tryphiodorus verses virtue Whig whole woman women words writings young
Populaire passages
Pagina 227 - Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Pagina 226 - Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Pagina 9 - 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.
Pagina 14 - ... the gallant Will Honeycomb, a gentleman who, according to his years, should be in the decline of his life, but having ever been very careful of his person, and always had a very easy fortune, time has made but very little impression, either by wrinkles on his forehead, or traces in his brain.
Pagina 386 - 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...
Pagina 15 - He is very ready at that sort of discourse with which men usually entertain women. He has all his life dressed very well, and remembers habits as others do men. He can smile when one speaks to him, and laughs easily. He knows the history of every mode, and can inform you from which of the French king's wenches our wives and daughters had this manner of curling their hair...
Pagina 40 - A screech-owl at midnight has alarmed a family more than a band of robbers; nay, the voice of a cricket hath struck more terror than the roaring of a lion. There is nothing so inconsiderable, which may not appear dreadful to an imagination that is filled with omens and prognostics: a rusty nail or a crooked pin shoot up into prodigies.
Pagina 357 - In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow ; Hast so much wit, and mirth, and spleen about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
Pagina 3 - I had not been long at the university before I distinguished myself by a most profound silence ; for during the space of eight years, excepting in the public exercises of the college, I scarce uttered the quantity of an hundred words ; and indeed do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole life.
Pagina 136 - English admiral, which was the distinguishing character of that plain gallant man, he is represented on his tomb by the figure of a beau, dressed in a long periwig, and reposing himself upon velvet cushions under a canopy of state.