The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Томове 5–6 |
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... keep of Sir Roger's character , and Steele , with his usual candour , might follow a plan which he reckoned superior to his own ; but it cannot be just to attribute the totality of the character either to the one or the other . The ...
... keep of Sir Roger's character , and Steele , with his usual candour , might follow a plan which he reckoned superior to his own ; but it cannot be just to attribute the totality of the character either to the one or the other . The ...
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... keeps up and doubles its price . " This increased the price of each paper to two - pence , the price , as we shall see afterwards , of periodical papers consisting of three half sheets elegantly printed on fine paper , while the Tatlers ...
... keeps up and doubles its price . " This increased the price of each paper to two - pence , the price , as we shall see afterwards , of periodical papers consisting of three half sheets elegantly printed on fine paper , while the Tatlers ...
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... keep to myself , at least for some time : I mean an account of my name , my and my lodgings . I must confess , I would gra- tify my reader in any thing that is reasonable ; but as for these three particulars , though I am sensible they ...
... keep to myself , at least for some time : I mean an account of my name , my and my lodgings . I must confess , I would gra- tify my reader in any thing that is reasonable ; but as for these three particulars , though I am sensible they ...
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... keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a per- verse beautiful widow of the next county to him . Before this disappointment , Sir Roger was what you call a fine gentleman , had often supped with my Lord Rochester ...
... keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a per- verse beautiful widow of the next county to him . Before this disappointment , Sir Roger was what you call a fine gentleman , had often supped with my Lord Rochester ...
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... keep up an indolent attention in the audience . Common sense , however , requires that there should be nothing in the scenes and machines which may appear childish and absurd . How would the wits of King Charles's time have laughed , to ...
... keep up an indolent attention in the audience . Common sense , however , requires that there should be nothing in the scenes and machines which may appear childish and absurd . How would the wits of King Charles's time have laughed , to ...
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Страница xciv - ... town and country ; a great lover of mankind ; but there is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour, that he is rather beloved than esteemed. His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
Страница xxix - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Страница 159 - Worship th' immortal gods. I AM always very well pleased with a country Sundav, and think, if keeping holy the seventh day were only a human institution, it would be the best method that could have been thought of for the polishing and civilizing of mankind. It is certain the country people would soon degenerate into a kind of savages and barbarians, were there not such frequent returns of a stated time, in which the whole village meet together with their best faces, and in their cleanliest habits,...
Страница lxxxvii - I HAVE 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 conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Страница 238 - For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Страница xcv - 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. He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms, for true power is to be got by arts and industry. He will often argue, that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation, — and if another,...
Страница 161 - This authority of the Knight, though exerted in that odd manner which accompanies him in all circumstances of life, has a very good effect upon the parish, who are not polite enough to see any thing ridiculous in his behaviour.
Страница xcii - However, this humour creates him no enemies, for he does nothing with sourness or obstinacy, and his being unconfined to modes and forms makes him but the readier and more capable to please and oblige all who know him.
Страница 160 - He has often told me, that at his coming to his estate, he found his parishioners very irregular: and that in order to make them kneel, and join in the responses, he gave every one of them a hassock and a Common Prayer Book ; and at the same time employed an itinerant...
Страница 160 - Sometimes he will be lengthening out a verse in the singing psalms, half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it ; sometimes when he is pleased with the matter of his devotion, he pronounces