The Spectator, Volume 1Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 |
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Pagina 5
... Roger de Coverley - the Sentry - Will Honeycomb - the Clergyman .. STEELE . Templar - Sir Andrew Freeport - Captain 16. Various Articles of Dress - Lampoons - Scan- dal. 3. Public Credit , a Vision ... Care of the Female Sex ...
... Roger de Coverley - the Sentry - Will Honeycomb - the Clergyman .. STEELE . Templar - Sir Andrew Freeport - Captain 16. Various Articles of Dress - Lampoons - Scan- dal. 3. Public Credit , a Vision ... Care of the Female Sex ...
Pagina 13
... ROGER DE COVERLEY . Dr. JOHNSON'S remarks on this character demand our attention on many accounts . " It is recorded by BUDGELL , that of the cha- racters feigned or exhibited in the SPECTATOR , the favourite of ADDISON was Sir ROGER DE ...
... ROGER DE COVERLEY . Dr. JOHNSON'S remarks on this character demand our attention on many accounts . " It is recorded by BUDGELL , that of the cha- racters feigned or exhibited in the SPECTATOR , the favourite of ADDISON was Sir ROGER DE ...
Pagina 14
... COVERLEY ; I am inclined to suppose , that the learned biographer had forgotten some things relating to that gentleman . " He seems to think that ADDISON had formed an idea of Sir ROGER which he never exhibited complete ; that he has ...
... COVERLEY ; I am inclined to suppose , that the learned biographer had forgotten some things relating to that gentleman . " He seems to think that ADDISON had formed an idea of Sir ROGER which he never exhibited complete ; that he has ...
Pagina 16
... ROGER DE COVERLEY in the general ; but it has not been attended to by ei- ther of these critics , that Sir ROGER was not the creature of ADDISON's , but of STEELE's fancy ; and it is not easy to discover why all writers on this subject ...
... ROGER DE COVERLEY in the general ; but it has not been attended to by ei- ther of these critics , that Sir ROGER was not the creature of ADDISON's , but of STEELE's fancy ; and it is not easy to discover why all writers on this subject ...
Pagina 20
... ROGER DE Coverley was supposed , by the late Mr. TYERS , to be a Sir JOHN PACKINGton , of Worcestershire , " a Tory , not without good sense , but abounding in absurdities . " Captain SENTRY is said to have been C. KEMPENFELT , father ...
... ROGER DE Coverley was supposed , by the late Mr. TYERS , to be a Sir JOHN PACKINGton , of Worcestershire , " a Tory , not without good sense , but abounding in absurdities . " Captain SENTRY is said to have been C. KEMPENFELT , father ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 94 - 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 314 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Pagina 96 - 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.
Pagina 297 - 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 92 - 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.
Pagina 92 - I never espoused any party with violence, and am resolved to observe an exact neutrality between the Whigs and Tories, unless I shall be forced to declare myself by the hostilities of either side. In short, I have acted in all the parts of my life as a looker-on, which is the character I intend to preserve in this paper.
Pagina 24 - As a teacher of wisdom, he may be confidently followed. His religion has nothing in it enthusiastic or superstitious: he appears neither weakly credulous, nor wantonly sceptical; his morality is neither dangerously lax, nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument, are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being.
Pagina 100 - To conclude his character, where women are not concerned, he is an honest worthy man. I cannot tell whether I am to account him whom I am next to speak of, as one of our company ; for he visits us but seldom ; but when he does, it adds to every man else a new enjoyment of himself.
Pagina 208 - I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey ; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable.
Pagina 310 - I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly...