Selections from the SpectatorMacmillan and Company, 1892 - 220 pagina's |
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Pagina xix
... observation ever on the watch , the discipline of travel , an inherited love of letters to which the study of his country's master- pieces and the models of classical refinement had given precision , freedom , grace of movement ...
... observation ever on the watch , the discipline of travel , an inherited love of letters to which the study of his country's master- pieces and the models of classical refinement had given precision , freedom , grace of movement ...
Pagina 1
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Pagina 4
... observe an exact neutrality between the Whigs and Tories , unless I shall be forced to declare myself by the hostilities of either side . In short , I have acted in all the parts of my life as a looker - on , which is the character I ...
... observe an exact neutrality between the Whigs and Tories , unless I shall be forced to declare myself by the hostilities of either side . In short , I have acted in all the parts of my life as a looker - on , which is the character I ...
Pagina 8
... observation of such as should take notice of them . He was some years a captain , and behaved himself with great gallantry in several engagements , and at several sieges ; but having a small estate of his own , and being next heir to ...
... observation of such as should take notice of them . He was some years a captain , and behaved himself with great gallantry in several engagements , and at several sieges ; but having a small estate of his own , and being next heir to ...
Pagina 15
... observed a settled melancholy in her countenance , which I should have been troubled for , had I not heard from whence it proceeded . We were no sooner sat down , but , after having looked upon me a little while , " My dear , " says she ...
... observed a settled melancholy in her countenance , which I should have been troubled for , had I not heard from whence it proceeded . We were no sooner sat down , but , after having looked upon me a little while , " My dear , " says she ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 76 - Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which added to those that were entire made up the number about an hundred.
Pagina 74 - I was thus musing, I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me, where I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a little musical instrument in his hand.
Pagina 21 - ... though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy; and can therefore take , a view of nature, in her deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones.
Pagina 76 - 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. further examination, perceived there were innumerable trapdoors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon, but they fell through them into the tide, and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many...
Pagina 125 - At my nativity my ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius ; I 20 was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet in me.
Pagina 132 - Knowing that you was my old Master's good Friend, I could not forbear sending you the melancholy News of his Death, which has afflicted the whole Country, as well as his poor Servants, who loved him, I may say, better than we did our Lives. I am afraid he caught his Death the last County...
Pagina 53 - I am the more at ease in Sir Roger's family, because it consists of sober and staid persons ; for as the knight is the best master in the world, he seldom changes his servants ; and as he is beloved by all about him, his servants never care for leaving him : by this means his domestics are all in years, and grown old with their master. You would take his valet...
Pagina 21 - 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 75 - I drew near with that Reverence which is due to a superior Nature \ and as my Heart was entirely subdued by the captivating Strains I had heard, I fell down at his Feet and wept The Genius smiled upon me with a Look of Compassion and Affability that familiarized him to my Imagination, and at once dispelled all the Fears and Apprehensions with which I approached him.
Pagina 7 - London; a person of indefatigable industry, strong reason, and great experience. 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.