The Spectator, Том 2George Atherton Aitken Longmans, Green, & Company, 1898 |
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... nature , and what perhaps may never meet with a parallel , I think I should not have discharged the office of a faithful Spectator had I not recorded it . I have in former papers endeavoured to expose this party rage in women , as it ...
... nature , and what perhaps may never meet with a parallel , I think I should not have discharged the office of a faithful Spectator had I not recorded it . I have in former papers endeavoured to expose this party rage in women , as it ...
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... nature , which makes him incapable of having a property in anything . His fortune , his reputation , his time , and his capacity , are at any man's service that comes first . When he was at school he was whipped thrice a week for faults ...
... nature , which makes him incapable of having a property in anything . His fortune , his reputation , his time , and his capacity , are at any man's service that comes first . When he was at school he was whipped thrice a week for faults ...
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... I frequently make a little party with two or three select friends , to visit anything curious that may be seen under cover . My principal entertainments of this nature are pictures , insomuch that when I have found ΙΟ No. 83 The SPECTATOR.
... I frequently make a little party with two or three select friends , to visit anything curious that may be seen under cover . My principal entertainments of this nature are pictures , insomuch that when I have found ΙΟ No. 83 The SPECTATOR.
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... nature wears a lower- ing countenance , I withdraw myself from these uncomfortable scenes into the visionary worlds of art ; where I meet with shining landscapes , gilded triumphs , beautiful faces , and all those other objects that ...
... nature wears a lower- ing countenance , I withdraw myself from these uncomfortable scenes into the visionary worlds of art ; where I meet with shining landscapes , gilded triumphs , beautiful faces , and all those other objects that ...
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... nature , who was dressed in the habit of a Dutchman , and known by the name of Industry . His figures were wonderfully laboured . If he drew the portraiture of a man , he did not omit a single hair in his face ; if the figure of a ship ...
... nature , who was dressed in the habit of a Dutchman , and known by the name of Industry . His figures were wonderfully laboured . If he drew the portraiture of a man , he did not omit a single hair in his face ; if the figure of a ship ...
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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...