The Spectator, Том 1J.Crissy, 1824 |
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... described him , in a large company of men and ladies , by the fellow with the broad shoulders . If those speeches and actions , which in their own nature are indifferent , appear ridiculous when they proceed from a wrong sex , the ...
... described him , in a large company of men and ladies , by the fellow with the broad shoulders . If those speeches and actions , which in their own nature are indifferent , appear ridiculous when they proceed from a wrong sex , the ...
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... described Bruin bewailing the loss of his bear to a solitary echo , who is of great use to the poet in several distichs , as she does not only repeat after him , but helps out his verses , and furnishes 24 No. 59 . THE SPECTATOR .
... described Bruin bewailing the loss of his bear to a solitary echo , who is of great use to the poet in several distichs , as she does not only repeat after him , but helps out his verses , and furnishes 24 No. 59 . THE SPECTATOR .
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... I have be- fore described , were inhabited by the species of Mixed Wit , who made a very odd appearance when they were mustered together in an army . There were men whose bodies were stuck full of darts No. 63 . 49 THE SPECTATOR .
... I have be- fore described , were inhabited by the species of Mixed Wit , who made a very odd appearance when they were mustered together in an army . There were men whose bodies were stuck full of darts No. 63 . 49 THE SPECTATOR .
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... described the false appearances of it , all that labour seems to be an useless inquiry , without some time be spent in considering the applica- tion of it . The seat of wit , when one speaks as a man of the town and the world , is the ...
... described the false appearances of it , all that labour seems to be an useless inquiry , without some time be spent in considering the applica- tion of it . The seat of wit , when one speaks as a man of the town and the world , is the ...
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... described other advantages , or , as he calls them , fruits of friendship ; and indeed there is no sub- ject of morality which has been better handled and more exhausted than this . Among the se- veral fine things which have been spoken ...
... described other advantages , or , as he calls them , fruits of friendship ; and indeed there is no sub- ject of morality which has been better handled and more exhausted than this . Among the se- veral fine things which have been spoken ...
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Страница 252 - I intend to form several of my ensuing speculations. Sir Roger, who is very well acquainted with my humour, lets me rise and go to bed when I please, dine at his own table or in my chamber as I think fit, sit still and say nothing without bidding me be merry.
Страница 105 - The noble earl was slain. He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth-yard long Up to the head drew he...
Страница 81 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung by some blind crowder with no rougher voice than rude style ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?
Страница 252 - HAVING often received an invitation from my friend Sir Roger de Coverley, to pass away a month with him in the country, I last week accompanied him thither, and am settled with him for some time at his countryhouse, where I intend to form several of my ensuing speculations. Sir Roger, who is very well acquainted with my...
Страница 255 - As Sir Roger was going on in his story, the gentleman we were talking of came up to us ; and upon the knight's asking him who preached to-morrow (for it was Saturday night), told us, the Bishop of St. Asaph in the morning, and Dr. South in the afternoon.
Страница 235 - Fan, according to the most fashionable airs and motions that are now practised at Court. The Ladies who carry Fans under me are drawn up twice a day in my great Hall, where they are instructed in the use of their Arms, and exercised by the following words of command: Handle your Fans, Unfurl your Fans, Discharge your Fans, Ground your Fans, Recover your Fans, Flutter your Fans.
Страница 78 - The single dress of a woman of quality is often the product of an hundred climates. The muff and the fan come together from the different ends of the earth. The scarf is sent from the torrid zone, and the tippet from beneath the pole. The brocade petticoat rises out of the mines of Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Indostan.
Страница 253 - My chief companion, when Sir Roger is diverting himself in the woods or the fields, is a very venerable man who is ever with Sir Roger, and has lived at his house in the nature of a chaplain above thirty years. This gentleman is a person of good sense and some learning, of a very regular life and obliging conversation...
Страница 254 - I have given him the parsonage of the parish ; and because I know his value have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than perhaps he thinks he is. He has now been with me thirty years; and though he does not know I have taken notice of it, has never in all that time asked...
Страница 222 - ... hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.