Selections from the SpectatorMacmillan and Company, 1892 - 220 pagina's |
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Pagina 37
... tell us , that no fruit grows originally among us besides hips and haws , acorns and pig - nuts , with other delicacies of the like nature ; that our climate of itself , 20 and without the assistance of art , can make no further ...
... tell us , that no fruit grows originally among us besides hips and haws , acorns and pig - nuts , with other delicacies of the like nature ; that our climate of itself , 20 and without the assistance of art , can make no further ...
Pagina 44
... tell , but the next night they came in so great a body to the opera that they outnumbered the enemy . This account of party patches will , I am afraid , appear im- probable to those who live at a distance from the fashionable world ...
... tell , but the next night they came in so great a body to the opera that they outnumbered the enemy . This account of party patches will , I am afraid , appear im- probable to those who live at a distance from the fashionable world ...
Pagina 48
... tell it in Monsieur Paradin's own words , " The women , that , like snails in a fright , had drawn 20 in their horns , shot them out again as soon as the danger was over . " This extravagance of the women's head - dresses in that age is ...
... tell it in Monsieur Paradin's own words , " The women , that , like snails in a fright , had drawn 20 in their horns , shot them out again as soon as the danger was over . " This extravagance of the women's head - dresses in that age is ...
Pagina 55
... tell me , a good scholar , though he does not show it . I have given him the parsonage of the parish ; and because I know his value , have settled upon him a good annuity for life . If he outlives me , he shall find that he was higher ...
... tell me , a good scholar , though he does not show it . I have given him the parsonage of the parish ; and because I know his value , have settled upon him a good annuity for life . If he outlives me , he shall find that he was higher ...
Pagina 58
... tell me of a large cock pheasant that he had sprung in one of the neigh- 20 bouring woods , with two or three other adventures of the same nature . Odd and uncommon characters are the game that I look for , and most delight in ; for ...
... tell me of a large cock pheasant that he had sprung in one of the neigh- 20 bouring woods , with two or three other adventures of the same nature . Odd and uncommon characters are the game that I look for , and most delight in ; for ...
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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.