The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Том 2J. Crissy, 1824 |
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... fair sex . Women were formed to temper mankind , and sooth them into tenderness and compassion ; not to set an edge upon their minds , and blow up in them those passions which are too apt to rise of their own accord . When I have seen a ...
... fair sex . Women were formed to temper mankind , and sooth them into tenderness and compassion ; not to set an edge upon their minds , and blow up in them those passions which are too apt to rise of their own accord . When I have seen a ...
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... fair forester in marriage : for I will make it no secret to you , that her person and education are to be her for- tune . I am , sir , Your very humble servant , ' CELIMENE . ' ' SIR , ' BEING employed by Celimene to make up and send to ...
... fair forester in marriage : for I will make it no secret to you , that her person and education are to be her for- tune . I am , sir , Your very humble servant , ' CELIMENE . ' ' SIR , ' BEING employed by Celimene to make up and send to ...
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... fair one's lips , or they will be too quick for the music , and dance quite out of time . I am not able however to give my final sentence against this diversion ; and am of Mr. Cowley's opinion , that so much of dancing , at least , as ...
... fair one's lips , or they will be too quick for the music , and dance quite out of time . I am not able however to give my final sentence against this diversion ; and am of Mr. Cowley's opinion , that so much of dancing , at least , as ...
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... fair one's lips , or they will be too quick for the music , and dance quite out of time . I am not able however to give my final sentence against this diversion ; and am of Mr. Cowley's opinion , that so much of dancing , at least , as ...
... fair one's lips , or they will be too quick for the music , and dance quite out of time . I am not able however to give my final sentence against this diversion ; and am of Mr. Cowley's opinion , that so much of dancing , at least , as ...
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... a late excellent author has delivered as his own , ' That we should have many well . wishers , but few friends . ' ' Sweet language will VOL . I. G multiply friends ; and a fair speaking tongue will increase No. 68 . 71 THE SPECTATOR .
... a late excellent author has delivered as his own , ' That we should have many well . wishers , but few friends . ' ' Sweet language will VOL . I. G multiply friends ; and a fair speaking tongue will increase No. 68 . 71 THE SPECTATOR .
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Страница 250 - Roger's family, because it consists of sober and staid persons; for .as the knight is the best master in the world, he seldom changes his servants; and as he is beloved by all about him, his servants never care for leaving him : by this means his Domestics are all in years, and grown old with their master. You would take his valet...
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Страница 250 - 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 253 - 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 79 - 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 192 - WE all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.
Страница 252 - As I was walking with him last night, he asked me how I liked the good man whom I have just now mentioned? and without staying for my answer told me, that he was afraid of being insulted with Latin and Greek at his own table...
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Страница 76 - 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.