Selections from The SpectatorMacmillan, 1895 - 220 pagina's |
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Pagina x
... took its place . The details of its history will be found further on ; but it may here be said that it was a complete success , and pecuniarily most profitable . To Addison this latter fact was of importance . For in 1710 the Ministry ...
... took its place . The details of its history will be found further on ; but it may here be said that it was a complete success , and pecuniarily most profitable . To Addison this latter fact was of importance . For in 1710 the Ministry ...
Pagina xiv
... took the rude outlines into his own hands , retouched them , coloured them , and is in truth the creator of the Sir Roger de Coverley and the Will Honeycomb with whom we are all familiar . " 1 The characters thus grouped " represent ...
... took the rude outlines into his own hands , retouched them , coloured them , and is in truth the creator of the Sir Roger de Coverley and the Will Honeycomb with whom we are all familiar . " 1 The characters thus grouped " represent ...
Pagina 7
... took him for a fool , but none , except his intimate friends , know he has a great deal of wit . This turn makes him at once both disinterested and agreeable : as few of his thoughts are drawn from business , they are most of them fit ...
... took him for a fool , but none , except his intimate friends , know he has a great deal of wit . This turn makes him at once both disinterested and agreeable : as few of his thoughts are drawn from business , they are most of them fit ...
Pagina 14
... took up the same space , and made the same figure as the bags that were really filled with money , had been blown up with air , and called into my memory the bags full of wind , which Homer tells us his hero received as a present from ...
... took up the same space , and made the same figure as the bags that were really filled with money , had been blown up with air , and called into my memory the bags full of wind , which Homer tells us his hero received as a present from ...
Pagina 16
... took my leave immediately after dinner , and with- drew to my own lodgings . Upon my return home I fell into a profound contemplation on the evils that attend these superstitious follies of mankind ; how they subject us to 20 imaginary ...
... took my leave immediately after dinner , and with- drew to my own lodgings . Upon my return home I fell into a profound contemplation on the evils that attend these superstitious follies of mankind ; how they subject us to 20 imaginary ...
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