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Pagina 15
I was reflecting with myself on the oddness of her fancy , and wondering that anybody would establish it as a rule to lose a day in every week . In the midst of these my musings she desired me to ...
I was reflecting with myself on the oddness of her fancy , and wondering that anybody would establish it as a rule to lose a day in every week . In the midst of these my musings she desired me to ...
Pagina 16
with my usual taciturnity ; when , to my utter confusion , the lady seeing me quitting my knife and fork , and laying them across one another upon my plate , desired me that I would humour her so far as to take them out of that figure ...
with my usual taciturnity ; when , to my utter confusion , the lady seeing me quitting my knife and fork , and laying them across one another upon my plate , desired me that I would humour her so far as to take them out of that figure ...
Pagina 55
... 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 10 learning , of a ...
... 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 10 learning , of a ...
Pagina 58
After the first salutes were over , Will . desired Sir Roger to lend him one of his servants to carry a set of shuttle - cocks , he had with him in a little box , to a lady that lived about a mile off , to whom it seems he had promised ...
After the first salutes were over , Will . desired Sir Roger to lend him one of his servants to carry a set of shuttle - cocks , he had with him in a little box , to a lady that lived about a mile off , to whom it seems he had promised ...
Pagina 66
Sir Roger , upon seeing me laugh , desired me to tell him truly if I thought it possible for people to know him in that disguise . I at first kept my usual silence ; but upon the knight's conjuring me to tell him whether it was not ...
Sir Roger , upon seeing me laugh , desired me to tell him truly if I thought it possible for people to know him in that disguise . I at first kept my usual silence ; but upon the knight's conjuring me to tell him whether it was not ...
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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.
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Selections from the Spectator Macmillan's English classics |
| Auteur | Joseph Addison |
| Redacteur | Kenneth Deighton |
| Bijdrager | Kenneth Deighton |
| Uitgever | Macmillan and Company, 1892 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | de University of Michigan |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 4 maart 2008 |
| Lengte | 220 pagina's |
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