Selections from the SpectatorMacmillan and Company, 1892 - 220 pagina's |
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Pagina 3
... soon as I had set myself right in that particular , returned to my native country with great satisfaction . I have passed my latter years in this city , where I am frequently seen in most public places , though there are not 10 above ...
... soon as I had set myself right in that particular , returned to my native country with great satisfaction . I have passed my latter years in this city , where I am frequently seen in most public places , though there are not 10 above ...
Pagina 12
... soon an opportunity of observing these quick turns and changes in her constitution . There sat at her feet a couple of secretaries , who received every hour letters from all parts of the world ; which the one or the other of them was ...
... soon an opportunity of observing these quick turns and changes in her constitution . There sat at her feet a couple of secretaries , who received every hour letters from all parts of the world ; which the one or the other of them was ...
Pagina 15
... Soon after this , as they began to talk of family 10 affairs , a little boy at the lower end of the table told her that he was to go into join - hand on Thursday . " Thursday , " says she ; " no , child , if it please God , you shall ...
... Soon after this , as they began to talk of family 10 affairs , a little boy at the lower end of the table told her that he was to go into join - hand on Thursday . " Thursday , " says she ; " no , child , if it please God , you shall ...
Pagina 18
... soon will seize , and you must quickly go . To storied ghosts , and Pluto's house below . - Creech . WHEN I am in a serious humour , I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey ; where the gloominess of the place , and the use to ...
... soon will seize , and you must quickly go . To storied ghosts , and Pluto's house below . - Creech . WHEN I am in a serious humour , I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey ; where the gloominess of the place , and the use to ...
Pagina 27
... soon as this rock was thus curiously scooped to their liking , a prodigious number of hands must have been employed in chipping the outside of it , which is now as smooth as the surface of a pebble ; and it is in several places hewn out ...
... soon as this rock was thus curiously scooped to their liking , a prodigious number of hands must have been employed in chipping the outside of it , which is now as smooth as the surface of a pebble ; and it is in several places hewn out ...
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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 - 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 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 7 - 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. He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts, and will 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, — and if another,...
Pagina 78 - I could discover nothing in it: but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
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 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 - ... he has been useless for several years. I could not but observe with a great deal of pleasure the joy that appeared in the countenances of these ancient domestics upon my friend's arrival at his country seat.