The British Essayists: SpectatorJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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Pagina lxi
... telling all the world how ardently I love and honour you ; and that I am , with the utmost gratitude for all your favours , MY LORD , Your Lordship's most obliged , most obedient , and most humble servant , THE SPECTATOR . TO THE RIGHT ...
... telling all the world how ardently I love and honour you ; and that I am , with the utmost gratitude for all your favours , MY LORD , Your Lordship's most obliged , most obedient , and most humble servant , THE SPECTATOR . TO THE RIGHT ...
Pagina lxi
... tell you that the free and disengaged behaviour of a fine gentleman makes as many awk- ward beaux , as the easiness of your favourite hath made insipid poets . At present you are content to aim all your charms at your own spouse ...
... tell you that the free and disengaged behaviour of a fine gentleman makes as many awk- ward beaux , as the easiness of your favourite hath made insipid poets . At present you are content to aim all your charms at your own spouse ...
Pagina 9
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Pagina 12
... tell you , when the Duke of Monmouth danced at court , such a woman was then smitten , another was taken with him at the head of his troop in the Park . In all these important rela- tions , he has ever about the same time received a ...
... tell you , when the Duke of Monmouth danced at court , such a woman was then smitten , another was taken with him at the head of his troop in the Park . In all these important rela- tions , he has ever about the same time received a ...
Pagina 15
... tell us a Lydian king was formerly possessed of : and that she could convert whatever she pleased into that precious metal . After a little dizziness , and confused hurry of thought , which a man often meets with in a dream , methought ...
... tell us a Lydian king was formerly possessed of : and that she could convert whatever she pleased into that precious metal . After a little dizziness , and confused hurry of thought , which a man often meets with in a dream , methought ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 199 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, 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 57 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep...
Pagina 1 - 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 281 - 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 281 - ... in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being mis-led by similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another.
Pagina 5 - But being ill-used by the above-mentioned widow, he was very serious for a year and a half; and though, his temper being naturally jovial, he at last got over it, he grew careless of himself, and never dressed afterwards. He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that was in fashion at the time of his repulse, which, in his merry humours, he tells us, has been in and out twelve times since he first wore it.
Pagina 6 - ... 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 198 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, 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 317 - Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to "him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
Pagina 2 - Thus I live in the world rather as a 'Spectator' of mankind than as one of the species...