The SpectatorPutnam, 1856 |
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... turn of conversation is happily hit off in the “ Spectator " for June 12th , 1712 , when a false report of the death of Louis XIV . had reached England : - " Upon my going into Will's I found their discourse was gone off from the death ...
... turn of conversation is happily hit off in the “ Spectator " for June 12th , 1712 , when a false report of the death of Louis XIV . had reached England : - " Upon my going into Will's I found their discourse was gone off from the death ...
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... turns ; but the political clubs of the time played an important part in history . 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 ...
... turns ; but the political clubs of the time played an important part in history . 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 ...
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... turn makes him at once both disinterested and agreeable ; as few of his thoughts are drawn from business , they are most of them fit for conversation . His taste of books is a little too just for the age he lives in ; he has read all ...
... turn makes him at once both disinterested and agreeable ; as few of his thoughts are drawn from business , they are most of them fit for conversation . His taste of books is a little too just for the age he lives in ; he has read all ...
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... turn ; and I find there is not one of the company , but myself , who rarely speak at all , but speaks of him as of that sort of man who here described : but , as in the former instances , the supposition is iil sup- ported . is usually ...
... turn ; and I find there is not one of the company , but myself , who rarely speak at all , but speaks of him as of that sort of man who here described : but , as in the former instances , the supposition is iil sup- ported . is usually ...
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... turns and changes in her constitution . There sate at her feet a couple of secretaries , who received every hour letters from all parts of the world , which the one or the other of them was perpetually reading to her ; and , according ...
... turns and changes in her constitution . There sate at her feet a couple of secretaries , who received every hour letters from all parts of the world , which the one or the other of them was perpetually reading to her ; and , according ...
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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.