The Spectator: With Notes and a General Index, Volumes 1-2J.J. Woodward, 1836 |
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Pagina xv
... hear from all hands that you are thoroughly reconciled to your dirty acres , and have not too much wit to look into your own estate . After having spoken thus much of my patron , I must take the privilege of an au the ladies that the ...
... hear from all hands that you are thoroughly reconciled to your dirty acres , and have not too much wit to look into your own estate . After having spoken thus much of my patron , I must take the privilege of an au the ladies that the ...
Pagina 25
... hear that any of the performers in our opera pre- tend to equal the famous pied piper , who made all the mice of a great town in Ger- many follow his music , and by that means cleared the place of those little noxious animals . sense ...
... hear that any of the performers in our opera pre- tend to equal the famous pied piper , who made all the mice of a great town in Ger- many follow his music , and by that means cleared the place of those little noxious animals . sense ...
Pagina 56
... hears a French swings upon a rope , takes a pipe of to- tragedy , to complain that the actors all of bacco , and ... hear tunes so wonderfully adapted to his words ; generals singing the word of command , and because both nations do ...
... hears a French swings upon a rope , takes a pipe of to- tragedy , to complain that the actors all of bacco , and ... hear tunes so wonderfully adapted to his words ; generals singing the word of command , and because both nations do ...
Pagina 57
... hear by my last ad- for there is scarce a Frenchman who would vices from Oxford , that there are a set of not wonder to hear you give the Italian such sighers in that university , who have erect- a preference , The music of the French ...
... hear by my last ad- for there is scarce a Frenchman who would vices from Oxford , that there are a set of not wonder to hear you give the Italian such sighers in that university , who have erect- a preference , The music of the French ...
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... hear one say , that breaking of windows was not humour ; and I question not but several English readers will be as much startled to hear me affirm , that many of those raving incoherent pieces , which are often spread among us under odd ...
... hear one say , that breaking of windows was not humour ; and I question not but several English readers will be as much startled to hear me affirm , that many of those raving incoherent pieces , which are often spread among us under odd ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 236 - I passed some time in the contemplation of this wonderful structure, and the great variety of objects which it presented. My heart was filled with a deep melancholy to see several dropping unexpectedly in the midst of mirth and jollity, and catching at every thing that stood by them to save themselves.
Pagina 236 - But tell me farther,' said he, ' what thou discoverest on it.' ' I see multitudes of people passing over it,' said I, ' and a black cloud hanging on each end of it.' As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge into the great tide that flowed underneath it : and upon...
Pagina 53 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.
Pagina 172 - 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 "amen...
Pagina 237 - on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity ; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it." I directed my sight as I was ordered, and (whether or no the good genius strengthened it with any supernatural force, or dissipated part of the mist that was before too thick for the eye to penetrate) I saw the valley opening at the...
Pagina 236 - I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains. I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and, passing from one thought to another,
Pagina 164 - This humanity and good nature engages everybody to him, so that when he is pleasant upon any of them, all his family are in good humour, and none so much as the person whom he diverts himself with ; on the contrary, if he coughs, or betrays any infirmity of old age, it is easy for a stander-by to observe a secret concern in the looks of all his servants.
Pagina 165 - I have given him the parsonage of the parish; and, because I know his value, have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he out-lives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than perhaps he thinks he is. He has now been with me thirty years ; and, though he does not know I have taken...
Pagina 437 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Pagina 264 - Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me: When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...