The Spectator: ...Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele J. and R. Tonson, 1767 |
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Pagina 25
... Such an habit has perhaps raised in me uncommon reflections ; but this effect I cannot communicate but by my writings . As my pleasures are almoft wholly confined to thofe of the fight , I take it for a peculiar happiness that I have ...
... Such an habit has perhaps raised in me uncommon reflections ; but this effect I cannot communicate but by my writings . As my pleasures are almoft wholly confined to thofe of the fight , I take it for a peculiar happiness that I have ...
Pagina 29
... Such are the wits to whofe taftes we fo ambitiously con- form ourfelves . The truth of it is , the finest writers among the modern Italians exprefs themfelves in fuch a florid form of words , and fuch tedious circumlocutions , as are ...
... Such are the wits to whofe taftes we fo ambitiously con- form ourfelves . The truth of it is , the finest writers among the modern Italians exprefs themfelves in fuch a florid form of words , and fuch tedious circumlocutions , as are ...
Pagina 31
... Such falfe impreffions are owing to the abandoned writings of men of wit , and the auk- ward imitation of the rest of mankind . For this reafon Sir Roger was faying laft night , that he was of opinion none but men of fine parts deferve ...
... Such falfe impreffions are owing to the abandoned writings of men of wit , and the auk- ward imitation of the rest of mankind . For this reafon Sir Roger was faying laft night , that he was of opinion none but men of fine parts deferve ...
Pagina 37
... Such an extravagant caft of mind engages multitudes of people not only in impertinent terrors , but in fupernu- merary duties of life ; and arifes from that fear and ignorance which are natural to the foul of man . The horror with which ...
... Such an extravagant caft of mind engages multitudes of people not only in impertinent terrors , but in fupernu- merary duties of life ; and arifes from that fear and ignorance which are natural to the foul of man . The horror with which ...
Pagina 50
... Such a writer , I doubt not , was the celebrated Petronius , who invented the pleafant aggravations of the frailty of the Ephefian Lady ; but when we confider this quef- tion between the fexes , which has been either a point , of ...
... Such a writer , I doubt not , was the celebrated Petronius , who invented the pleafant aggravations of the frailty of the Ephefian Lady ; but when we confider this quef- tion between the fexes , which has been either a point , of ...
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