The Spectator, Том 1J.Crissy, 1824 |
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... nature are indifferent , appear ridiculous when they proceed from a wrong sex , the faults and imperfections of one sex transplanted into another , appear black and monstrous . As for the men , I shall not in this paper any further ...
... nature are indifferent , appear ridiculous when they proceed from a wrong sex , the faults and imperfections of one sex transplanted into another , appear black and monstrous . As for the men , I shall not in this paper any further ...
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... nature ; though , at the same time , I would give free liberty to all superannuated motherly partisans to be as violent as they please , since there will be no danger either of their spoil- ing their faces , or of their gaining converts ...
... nature ; though , at the same time , I would give free liberty to all superannuated motherly partisans to be as violent as they please , since there will be no danger either of their spoil- ing their faces , or of their gaining converts ...
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... natural zeal gets into them , it throws them into ten thousand heats and extravagancies ; their ge- nerous souls set no bounds to their love , or to their hatred ; and whether a whig or a tory , a lap - dog or a gallant , an opera or a ...
... natural zeal gets into them , it throws them into ten thousand heats and extravagancies ; their ge- nerous souls set no bounds to their love , or to their hatred ; and whether a whig or a tory , a lap - dog or a gallant , an opera or a ...
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... nature , I shall produce the device of one Mr. Newberry , as I find it mentioned by our learned Camden in his remains . Mr. Newberry , to represent his name by a picture , hung up at his door the sign of a yew - tree , that had several ...
... nature , I shall produce the device of one Mr. Newberry , as I find it mentioned by our learned Camden in his remains . Mr. Newberry , to represent his name by a picture , hung up at his door the sign of a yew - tree , that had several ...
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... nature , in which among others , I had made use of the four following rhymes , Ama- ryllis , Phyllis , Marne , Arne , desiring him to give me his opinion of it . He told me immediately that my verses were good for nothing . And upon my ...
... nature , in which among others , I had made use of the four following rhymes , Ama- ryllis , Phyllis , Marne , Arne , desiring him to give me his opinion of it . He told me immediately that my verses were good for nothing . And upon my ...
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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.