The Spectator, Volume 1Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 |
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Pagina 112
... piece ; and that the scenes which are designed as the repre- sentations of nature should be filled with resem- blances , and not with the things themselves . If one would represent a wide champaign country filled with herds and flocks ...
... piece ; and that the scenes which are designed as the repre- sentations of nature should be filled with resem- blances , and not with the things themselves . If one would represent a wide champaign country filled with herds and flocks ...
Pagina 139
... piece of raillery . C. No. 11. TUESDAY , MARCH 13 , 1710-11 . Dat veniam corvis , vexat censura columbas . Juv . Sat. ii . 63 The doves are censur'd , while the crows are spar'd . ARIETTA is visited by all persons of both sexes , who ...
... piece of raillery . C. No. 11. TUESDAY , MARCH 13 , 1710-11 . Dat veniam corvis , vexat censura columbas . Juv . Sat. ii . 63 The doves are censur'd , while the crows are spar'd . ARIETTA is visited by all persons of both sexes , who ...
Pagina 140
... piece of raillery as an outrage done to her sex ; as indeed I have always observed that women , whether out of a nicer regard to their honour , or what other rea- son I cannot tell , are more sensibly touched with those general ...
... piece of raillery as an outrage done to her sex ; as indeed I have always observed that women , whether out of a nicer regard to their honour , or what other rea- son I cannot tell , are more sensibly touched with those general ...
Pagina 141
... piece of presumption to dispute it with you : but your quotations put me in mind of the fable of the lion and the man . The man walking with that noble animal , shewed him , in the ostentation of human superiority , a sign of a man ...
... piece of presumption to dispute it with you : but your quotations put me in mind of the fable of the lion and the man . The man walking with that noble animal , shewed him , in the ostentation of human superiority , a sign of a man ...
Pagina 154
... the future ; and must say it is a great piece of ill nature in you , to shew so great an esteem for a foreigner , and to discourage a Lion that is your own coun- tryman . ' I take notice of your fable of the lion 154 No. 14 SPECTATOR .
... the future ; and must say it is a great piece of ill nature in you , to shew so great an esteem for a foreigner , and to discourage a Lion that is your own coun- tryman . ' I take notice of your fable of the lion 154 No. 14 SPECTATOR .
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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 210 - 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...