Selections from The SpectatorMacmillan, 1895 - 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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