The Spectator, Том 2George Atherton Aitken Longmans, Green, & Company, 1898 |
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... hope you will forgive me that I have an ambition this book may be placed in the library of so good a judge of what is valuable , in that library where the choice is such that it will not be a disparagement to be the meanest author in it ...
... hope you will forgive me that I have an ambition this book may be placed in the library of so good a judge of what is valuable , in that library where the choice is such that it will not be a disparagement to be the meanest author in it ...
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... hope , you will encourage with the favour of your interest . ' There can be no objection made on the side of the matchless Hecatissa , since it is certain I shall be in no danger of giving her the least occasion of jealousy ; and then ...
... hope , you will encourage with the favour of your interest . ' There can be no objection made on the side of the matchless Hecatissa , since it is certain I shall be in no danger of giving her the least occasion of jealousy ; and then ...
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... idols or the diversions of the lovers ; what I hope from this remonstrance is only that we plain people may not be served as if we were idolaters ; but that from the time of publishing this in your paper the 32 No. 87 The SPECTATOR.
... idols or the diversions of the lovers ; what I hope from this remonstrance is only that we plain people may not be served as if we were idolaters ; but that from the time of publishing this in your paper the 32 No. 87 The SPECTATOR.
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... hope on that score also you will put off your anger till I have told you all another time . ' After a little pause the colonel cleared up his countenance , and with an air of familiarity whispered his man apart , ' Sirrah , bring the ...
... hope on that score also you will put off your anger till I have told you all another time . ' After a little pause the colonel cleared up his countenance , and with an air of familiarity whispered his man apart , ' Sirrah , bring the ...
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... hope , behold her , not far off , Such as I saw her in my dream , adorned With what all earth or heaven could bestow To make her amiable . On she came , Led by her heavenly Maker , though unseen , And guided by His voice , nor ...
... hope , behold her , not far off , Such as I saw her in my dream , adorned With what all earth or heaven could bestow To make her amiable . On she came , Led by her heavenly Maker , though unseen , And guided by His voice , nor ...
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Страница 197 - The court was sat before Sir Roger came, but notwithstanding all the justices had taken their places upon the bench, they made room for the old knight at the head of them ; who, for his reputation in the country, took occasion to whisper in the judge's ear, that he was glad his lordship had met with so much good weather in his circuit.
Страница 121 - Calamy, with several living authors who have published discourses of practical divinity. I no sooner saw this venerable man in the pulpit, but I very much approved of my friend's insisting upon the qualifications of a good aspect and a clear voice ; for I was so charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and delivery, as well as the discourses he pronounced, that I think I never passed any time more to my satisfaction. A sermon repeated after this manner, is like the composition of a poet in the...
Страница 166 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Страница 195 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart ; his next, to escape the censures of the world : if the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public...
Страница 117 - HAVING often received an invitation from my friend Sir Roger de Coverley to pass away a month with him in the country...
Страница 375 - ... who by the mere strength of natural parts, and without any assistance of art or learning, have produced works that were the delight of their own times, and the wonder of posterity.
Страница 368 - Mirzah," which I have read over with great pleasure. I intend to give it to the public when I have no other entertainment for them ; and shall begin with the first vision, which I have translated word for word as follows : — " On the fifth day of the moon, which according to the custom of my forefathers I always...
Страница 170 - But we their sons, a pamper'd race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend : God never made his work for man to mend.
Страница 122 - ... much approved of my friend's insisting upon the qualifications of a good aspect and a clear voice; for I was so charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and delivery, as well as with the discourses he pronounced, that I think I never passed any time more to my satisfaction. A sermon repeated after this manner, is like the composition of a poet in the mouth of a graceful actor.
Страница 146 - 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...