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Pagina 22
... given up to caprice . For my part , when I read the delirious mirth of an unskilled author , I cannot be so barbarous as to divert myself with it , but am rather apt to pity the man than to laugh at anything he writes . The deceased Mr ...
... given up to caprice . For my part , when I read the delirious mirth of an unskilled author , I cannot be so barbarous as to divert myself with it , but am rather apt to pity the man than to laugh at anything he writes . The deceased Mr ...
Pagina 24
... . But as this would be a very invidious task , I shall only observe in general that False Humour differs from the True as a monkey does from a man . First of all , He is exceedingly given to little 24 THE SPECTATOR .
... . But as this would be a very invidious task , I shall only observe in general that False Humour differs from the True as a monkey does from a man . First of all , He is exceedingly given to little 24 THE SPECTATOR .
Pagina 25
Joseph Addison Kenneth Deighton. First of all , He is exceedingly given to little apish tricks and buffooneries . Secondly , He so much delights in mimicry that it is all one to him whether he exposes by it vice and folly , luxury and ...
Joseph Addison Kenneth Deighton. First of all , He is exceedingly given to little apish tricks and buffooneries . Secondly , He so much delights in mimicry that it is all one to him whether he exposes by it vice and folly , luxury and ...
Pagina 38
... given us a kind of additional empire it has multiplied the number of the rich , made our landed estates infinitely more valuable than they were formerly , and added to them an accession of other estates as valuable as the lands ...
... given us a kind of additional empire it has multiplied the number of the rich , made our landed estates infinitely more valuable than they were formerly , and added to them an accession of other estates as valuable as the lands ...
Pagina 39
... given my reader an account of several extraordinary clubs , both ancient and modern , I did not design to have troubled him with any more narratives of this nature , but I have lately received information of a club which I can call ...
... given my reader an account of several extraordinary clubs , both ancient and modern , I did not design to have troubled him with any more narratives of this nature , but I have lately received information of a club which I can call ...
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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.