The Spectator

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J. B. Lippincott & Company, 1870
 

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Reflections in WestminsterAbbey
26
Popular Superstitions
28
Italian RecitativeAbsurdities of the Opera Dresses
29
Project of a new Opera
31
Letters on Masquerades
32
Success of the Spectators with various Classes of Read ers represented by the Club
34
False Wit and HumourGenealogy of Humour
35
Account of various Clubs
36
Catalogue of a Ladys LibraryCharacter of Leonora
37
English TragedyLeeOtway
39
Tragedy and TragiComedy
40
The Uses of the Spectator
41
English TragedyMethods to aggrandize the Persons in Tragedy
42
Stage Tricks to excite PityDramatic Murders
44
Custom of telling Stories of Ghosts to Children
45
The Spectators Paper of Hints droppedGospelgossip Ogling
46
Theory of the Passion of Laughter
47
Conduct of the Lions at the OperaMerit of Nicolini
49
Remarks on the English by the Indian Kings
50
Story of Cleantheon Happiness exemplified in Aurelia Fulvia
53
Effects of Avarice and Luxury on Employments
55
Vision of Marraton
56
Various Articles of DressLampoonsScandalPoli ticsLetter from Charles Lillie
57
History of the Italian Opera
61
THE SPECTATOR Continued 69 Visit to the Royal ExchangeBenefit of Extensive
69
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83
Education of Country SquiresStory of Eudoxus
123
Use and Difficulties of Periodical Papers
124
The Subject continuedSir Rogers Principles
126
Letter on the Hooppetticoat
127
Difference of Temper in the SexesFemale Levity
128
Fashions in DressHow imitated in the Country
129
Interview of the Spectator and Sir Roger with a Gang of Gypsies
130
Opinions entertained of the Spectator in the Country Letter from Will Honeycomb
131
Blessing of Being born an EnglishmanThe English
135
Tongue
138
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142
The Vision of Mirza DIAM
159
On great natural Geniuses
160
Introduction of French Phrases in the History of the WarSpecimen in a Letter
165
Durability of WritingAnecdote of an atheistical
166
thor
167
169 On Goodnature as the Effect of Constitution 169
169
On Jealousy
170
Subject continuedAddress to those who have jealous Husbands
171
Account of a Grinningmatch
173
Goodnature as a Moral Virtue
177
Various Dispositions of ReadersAccount of a Whist lingmatchYawning
179
Cruelty of Parents in the Affair of Marriage
181
On FableFable of Iasure and Pain PAGH
183
On Physiognomy
239
LoversDemurrageFolly of Demurrage
244
Punishment of a voluptuous Man after DeathAdven ture of M Pontigna
249
Books for a Ladys Library L
253
Proper Methods of employing Time
257
Subject continuedPursuit of Knowledge
262
Ladies Headdresses
267
The Chief Point of Honour in Men and WomenDuel ling
271
Uncertainty of FameSpecimen of a History of the Reign of Anne I
275
Exercise of the Fan
280
Will Honeycombs Knowledge of the Worldvarious Kinds of Pedants
283
Spectators visit to Sir R de Coverleys Country Seat the Knights domestic Establishment
287
Character of Will Wimble
291
On Ghosts and Apparitions
295
Immateriality of the Soul
300
A Sunday in the CountrySir Rogers Behaviour at Church
304
Labour and Exercise
312
Rural MannersPoliteness
316
Instinct in Animals
320
THE SPECTATOR Continued
379
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THE SPECTATOR Continued 184 Account of a remarkable Sleeper
451
Zealvarious Kinds of Zealots
454
186 On Infidelity
458
Cruelty of ParentsLetter from a Father to his Son Duty to Parents
463
On the Whims of LotteryAdventurers
466
On Temperance
471
Character of the SalamandersStory of a Castilian and his Wife
478
DevotionEnthusiasm
480
On Seducers and their illicit ProgenyLetter from a natural Son
482
Description of a Female Panderaffected Method of PsalmsingingErratum in the Paper on Drink ing
489
Notions of the Heathen on Devotion
494
Simonidess Satire on Women
499
Transmigration of SoulsLetters on Simonidess Satire on Women
504
On habitual good Intentions
509
Educationcompared to Sculpture
513
QualityVanity of Honours and Titles
517
Use of MottoesLove of Latin among the Common peo pleSignature Letters
521
Account of Sappho
528
Discretion and Cunning
531
Letter on the Lovers Leap
534
Fragment of Sappho
539
Reflections on Modesty
543
History of the Lovers Leap
548
Account of the Trunkmaker in the Theatre
552
On the Ways of Providence
556
Various Ways of managing a Debate
560
Letter on the Absence of LoversRemedies proposed
564
On the Beauty and Loveliness of Virtue
568

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Pagina 42 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven, to inhabit among Men; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and in CoffeeHouses.
Pagina 305 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it, he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself, or sends his servants to them.
Pagina 48 - Shine not in vain; nor think, though men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise: Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep: All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Beth day and night.
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 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 15 - ... 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, from another. I have heard him prove, that diligence makes...
Pagina 7 - I am very well versed in the theory of a husband, or a father, and can discern the errors in the oeconomy, business., and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them; as standers-by discover blots, which are apt to escape those who are in the game. I never espoused any party with violence, and am resolved to 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 nave acted in all the parts...
Pagina 205 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung by some blind crowder with no rougher voice than rude style ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?
Pagina 287 - HAVING often received an invitation from my friend Sir Roger de Coverley to pass away a month with him in the country...
Pagina 2 - I have 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 a choleric disposition, married or a bachelor; with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.

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