The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Том 2J. Crissy, 1824 |
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... mention of it , they only treat on the subject as it has accidentally fallen in their way , and that too in little short reflections , or in general exclamatory flourishes , without entering into the bottom of the matter . I hope there ...
... mention of it , they only treat on the subject as it has accidentally fallen in their way , and that too in little short reflections , or in general exclamatory flourishes , without entering into the bottom of the matter . I hope there ...
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... mention- ed had been now extant , the Odyssey of Tryphi- odorus , in all probability , would have been often- er quoted by our learned pedants than the Odys- sey of Homer . What a perpetual fund would it have been of obsolete words and ...
... mention- ed had been now extant , the Odyssey of Tryphi- odorus , in all probability , would have been often- er quoted by our learned pedants than the Odys- sey of Homer . What a perpetual fund would it have been of obsolete words and ...
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... mentions . I shall only add to it , by way of explanation , that every resemblance of ideas , is not that which we call wit , unless it be such an one as gives delight and surprise to the reader : these two properties seem essential to ...
... mentions . I shall only add to it , by way of explanation , that every resemblance of ideas , is not that which we call wit , unless it be such an one as gives delight and surprise to the reader : these two properties seem essential to ...
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... tripe ? ' Upon the mention of a country gentlewoman , whom he knows nothing of ( no one can imagine why ) he will lay his life she is some awkward , ill - fashioned country toad , who not having above No. 65 . 57 THE SPECTATOR .
... tripe ? ' Upon the mention of a country gentlewoman , whom he knows nothing of ( no one can imagine why ) he will lay his life she is some awkward , ill - fashioned country toad , who not having above No. 65 . 57 THE SPECTATOR .
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... Lamb , so well esteem'd , Yet saved could not be . ' The familiar sound in these names destroys the majesty of the description ; for this reason I do not mention this part of the poem but to show No. 74 . 105 THE SPECTATOR .
... Lamb , so well esteem'd , Yet saved could not be . ' The familiar sound in these names destroys the majesty of the description ; for this reason I do not mention this part of the poem but to show No. 74 . 105 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...
Страница 37 - For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Страница 101 - Lo, yonder doth Earl Douglas come, His men in armour bright ; Full twenty hundred Scottish spears All marching in our sight ; All men of pleasant Teviotdale, Fast by the river Tweed...
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.