The SpectatorPutnam, 1856 |
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... ideas , that we can hardly persuade ourselves that we could not have thought and written in the same manner . He has somewhere said of " fine writing , " that it " consists of sentiments which are natural , without being obvious : " and ...
... ideas , that we can hardly persuade ourselves that we could not have thought and written in the same manner . He has somewhere said of " fine writing , " that it " consists of sentiments which are natural , without being obvious : " and ...
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... idea of uniting the authors of a periodical in a club - though an obvious one - was calculated to bring out sparkling contrasts of character . But it was not successfully elaborated . Each personage was greatly dis- sociated from the ...
... idea of uniting the authors of a periodical in a club - though an obvious one - was calculated to bring out sparkling contrasts of character . But it was not successfully elaborated . Each personage was greatly dis- sociated from the ...
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... ideas , till the business and conversation of the day has supplied them . I have often considered these poor souls with an eye of great commiseration , when I have heard them asking the first man they have met with , whether there was ...
... ideas , till the business and conversation of the day has supplied them . I have often considered these poor souls with an eye of great commiseration , when I have heard them asking the first man they have met with , whether there was ...
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... idea is carried out with much humour in the character of Will Wimble , No. 108. V. also Hon . Mr. Thomas Gules . Tatler , 256 , by Steele and Addison . - G . should be employ , call in , or some such transitive verb , of which " whom ...
... idea is carried out with much humour in the character of Will Wimble , No. 108. V. also Hon . Mr. Thomas Gules . Tatler , 256 , by Steele and Addison . - G . should be employ , call in , or some such transitive verb , of which " whom ...
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... idea of the ignorance or politeness of a nation , from the turn of their public monuments and inscriptions , they should be submit- ted to the perusal of men of learning and genius , before they are put in execution . Sir Cloudesly ...
... idea of the ignorance or politeness of a nation , from the turn of their public monuments and inscriptions , they should be submit- ted to the perusal of men of learning and genius , before they are put in execution . Sir Cloudesly ...
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Страница 48 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Страница 12 - It is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him.
Страница 83 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Страница 381 - I could discover nothing in it; but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Страница 381 - I observed some with scimitars in their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trap-doors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped, had they not been thus forced upon them. "The genius, seeing me indulge myself in this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it. ' Take thine eyes off the bridge,' said he, ' and tell me if thou yet seest anything thou dost not comprehend.' Upon looking up,...
Страница 220 - The stout Earl of Northumberland, A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer's days to take; The chiefest harts in Chevy-Chase To kill and bear away.
Страница 289 - ... his virtues, as well as imperfections, are as it were tinged by a certain extravagance, which makes them particularly his, and distinguishes them from those of other men. This cast of mind, as it is generally very innocent in itself, so it renders his conversation highly agreeable, and more delightful than the same degree of sense and virtue would appear in their common and ordinary colours.
Страница 6 - Cocoa-tree, and in the theatres both of Drury-lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stockjobbers at Jonathan's.
Страница 379 - I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life ; consider it attentively.
Страница 302 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.