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Pagina xxii
... figures neither divert by distortion , nor amaze by aggravation . He copies life with so much fidelity , that he can hardly be said to invent ; yet his exhibitions have an air so much original , that it is xxii HISTORICAL AND.
... figures neither divert by distortion , nor amaze by aggravation . He copies life with so much fidelity , that he can hardly be said to invent ; yet his exhibitions have an air so much original , that it is xxii HISTORICAL AND.
Pagina xxiii
... figures and rumbling syllables . It is only a Garrick who can do justice to Benedict and Ranger ; but any candle - snuffer might personate Pistol and Bombardinian . Addison's humour resembles his style . Every phrase in the one , and ...
... figures and rumbling syllables . It is only a Garrick who can do justice to Benedict and Ranger ; but any candle - snuffer might personate Pistol and Bombardinian . Addison's humour resembles his style . Every phrase in the one , and ...
Pagina lxxiv
... figure , as she is described to have been in the 113th number of the Spectator . She was a personage well known and much distinguished in her day , and is described very respectably in the New Atalantis , under the name of Portia ...
... figure , as she is described to have been in the 113th number of the Spectator . She was a personage well known and much distinguished in her day , and is described very respectably in the New Atalantis , under the name of Portia ...
Pagina lxxxiii
... figure in the British senate , as well as in that ele- gance and politeness which appear in your more re- tired conversation . I should be unpardonable if , * Youngest son of Charles , Lord Clifford , and afterwards Lord ' Carleton ...
... figure in the British senate , as well as in that ele- gance and politeness which appear in your more re- tired conversation . I should be unpardonable if , * Youngest son of Charles , Lord Clifford , and afterwards Lord ' Carleton ...
Pagina xciii
... figure you have done , among the fashionable part of his species . It is therefore no wonder we see such multitudes of aspiring young men fall short of you in all these beau- ties of your character , notwithstanding the study and ...
... figure you have done , among the fashionable part of his species . It is therefore no wonder we see such multitudes of aspiring young men fall short of you in all these beau- ties of your character , notwithstanding the study and ...
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Pagina xciv - ... 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.
Pagina xxix - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Pagina 159 - Worship th' immortal gods. I AM always very well pleased with a country Sundav, 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. It is certain the country people would soon degenerate into a kind of savages and barbarians, were there not such frequent returns of a stated time, in which the whole village meet together with their best faces, and in their cleanliest habits,...
Pagina lxxxvii - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Pagina 238 - For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Pagina xcv - His notions of trade are noble and generous, and (as every rich man has usually some sly way of jesting which would make no great figure were he not a rich man) he calls the sea the British Common. He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms, for true power is to be got by arts and industry. He will often argue, that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation, — and if another,...
Pagina 161 - This authority of the Knight, though exerted in that odd manner which accompanies him in all circumstances of life, has a very good effect upon the parish, who are not polite enough to see any thing ridiculous in his behaviour.
Pagina xcii - However, this humour creates him no enemies, for he does nothing with sourness or obstinacy, and his being unconfined to modes and forms makes him but the readier and more capable to please and oblige all who know him.
Pagina 160 - He has often told me, that at his coming to his estate, he found his parishioners very irregular: and that in order to make them kneel, and join in the responses, he gave every one of them a hassock and a Common Prayer Book ; and at the same time employed an itinerant...
Pagina 160 - Sometimes he will be lengthening out a verse in the singing psalms, half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it ; sometimes when he is pleased with the matter of his devotion, he pronounces