The Spectator

Voorkant
Putnam, 1856
 

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Success of the Spectators with various Classes of Read ers represented by the Club 96
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False Wit and HumourGenealogy of Humour 100
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Catalogue of a Ladys LibraryCharacter of Leonora 104
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Tragedy and TragiComedy 114
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English TragedyMethods to aggrandize the Persons
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Stage Tricks to excite PityDramatic Murders
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Ill Consequences of the PeaceFrench FashionsChild ish Impertinence
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The Spectators Paper of Hints droppedGospelgossip Ogling
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Theory of the Passion of Laughter
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Remarks on the English by the Indian Kings
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Effects of Avarice and Luxury on Employments
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Vision of Marraton
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Mischiefs of PartyRage in the Female Sex
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Essay on WitHistory of False Wit
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The same subject continued
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Wit of the Monkish Agesin Modern Times
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The Subject continued
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Allegory of several Schemes of Wit
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THE SPECTATOR Continued 69 Visit to the Royal ExchangeBenefit of Extensive Commerce
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Critique on the Ballad of ChevyChase
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Account of the Everlasting Club
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Passion for Fame and PraiseCharacter of the Idols
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Continuation of the Critique on ChevyChase
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Female PartySpirit discovered by Patches
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Fate of WritingsBallad of the Children in the Wood
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On Physiognomy
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LoversDemurrageFolly of Demurrage
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Punishment of a voluptuous Man after DeathAdven ture of M Pontigna
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Subject continuedPursuit of Knowledge
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Ladies Headdresses
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The Chief Point of Honour in Men and WomenDuel ling
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Uncertainty of FameSpecimen of a History of the Reign of Anne I
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Exercise of the Fan
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Will Honeycombs Knowledge of the Worldvarious Kinds of Pedants
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Spectators visit to Sir R de Coverleys Country Seat the Knights domestic Establishment
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Pagina 82 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Pagina 12 - It is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him.
Pagina 222 - The noble earl was slain. He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth-yard long Up to the head drew he...
Pagina 290 - I was walking with him last night, he asked me how I liked the good man whom I have just now mentioned ? and without staying for my answer told me. that he was afraid of being insulted with Latin and Greek at his own table ; for which reason he desired a particular friend of his at the university to find him out a clergyman rather of plain sense than much learning, of a good aspect, a clear voice, a sociable temper, and, if possible, a man that understood a little of back-gammon.
Pagina 289 - My chief companion, when Sir Roger is diverting himself in the woods or the fields, is a very venerable man, who is ever with Sir Roger, and has lived at his house in the nature of a chaplain above thirty years. This gentleman is a person of good sense and some learning, of a very regular life and obliging conversation : he heartily loves Sir Roger, and knows that he is very much in the old knight's esteem ; so that he lives in the family rather as a relation than a dependant.
Pagina 6 - Cocoa-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 stockjobbers at Jonathan's.
Pagina 435 - If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me ; what then shall I do when God riseth up ? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him...
Pagina 291 - Calamy, with several living authors, who have published discourses of practical divinity. I no sooner saw this venerable man in the pulpit, but I very much approved of my friend's insisting upon the qualifications of a good aspect and a clear voice ; for I was so charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and delivery, as well as with the discourses he pronounced, that I think I never passed any time more to my satisfaction. A sermon repeated after this manner, is like the composition of a poet...
Pagina 288 - You see the goodness of the master even in the old house-dog, and in a gray pad that is kept in the stable with great care and tenderness out of regard to his past services, though he has been useless for several years.
Pagina 7 - Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species...