Selections from the SpectatorMacmillan and Company, 1892 - 220 pagina's |
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Pagina 18
... humour , I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey ; where the gloominess of the place , and the use to which it is applied , with the solemnity of the building , and the condition of the people who lie in it , are apt to fill ...
... humour , I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey ; where the gloominess of the place , and the use to which it is applied , with the solemnity of the building , and the condition of the people who lie in it , are apt to fill ...
Pagina 21
... yester- day , and some six hundred years ago , I consider that great 30 day when we shall all of us be contemporaries , and make our appearance together . C. No. 35. ] VI . FALSE WIT AND HUMOUR . REFLECTIONS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY . 21.
... yester- day , and some six hundred years ago , I consider that great 30 day when we shall all of us be contemporaries , and make our appearance together . C. No. 35. ] VI . FALSE WIT AND HUMOUR . REFLECTIONS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY . 21.
Pagina 22
... humour , what wild irregular fancies , what un- natural distortions of thought do we meet with ? If they speak nonsense , they believe they are talking humour ; and when they have drawn together a scheme of absurd , incon- sistent ideas ...
... humour , what wild irregular fancies , what un- natural distortions of thought do we meet with ? If they speak nonsense , they believe they are talking humour ; and when they have drawn together a scheme of absurd , incon- sistent ideas ...
Pagina 23
... humour . It is indeed much easier to describe what is not humour 10 than what is ; and very difficult to define it otherwise than as Cowley has done wit , by negatives . Were I to give my own notions of it , I would deliver them after ...
... humour . It is indeed much easier to describe what is not humour 10 than what is ; and very difficult to define it otherwise than as Cowley has done wit , by negatives . Were I to give my own notions of it , I would deliver them after ...
Pagina 24
... Humour , and at the same time place under it the genealogy of True Humour , that the reader may at one view behold their different pedigrees and relations . FALSEHOOD . NONSENSE . FRENZY.- -LAUGHTER . FALSE HUMOUR . TRUTH . GOOD SENSE ...
... Humour , and at the same time place under it the genealogy of True Humour , that the reader may at one view behold their different pedigrees and relations . FALSEHOOD . NONSENSE . FRENZY.- -LAUGHTER . FALSE HUMOUR . TRUTH . GOOD SENSE ...
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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.