The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Том 2J. Crissy, 1824 |
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... and that I am , with the utmost gra- titude for all your favours , My lord , Your lordship's most obliged , Most obedient , and Most humble servant , THE SPECTATOR . THE THE SPECTATOR . No. 56. FRIDAY , MAY 4 iy DEDICATION .
... and that I am , with the utmost gra- titude for all your favours , My lord , Your lordship's most obliged , Most obedient , and Most humble servant , THE SPECTATOR . THE THE SPECTATOR . No. 56. FRIDAY , MAY 4 iy DEDICATION .
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... servant neglects his business , threatens to kick him out of the house . I have heard her , in her wrath , call a substantial tradesman a lousy cur ; and remember one day , when she could not think of the name of a person , she ...
... servant neglects his business , threatens to kick him out of the house . I have heard her , in her wrath , call a substantial tradesman a lousy cur ; and remember one day , when she could not think of the name of a person , she ...
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... servant , ' CELIMENE . ' ' SIR , ' BEING employed by Celimene to make up and send to you her letter , I make bold to recommend the case therein mentioned to your consideration , because she and I happen to differ a little in our notions ...
... servant , ' CELIMENE . ' ' SIR , ' BEING employed by Celimene to make up and send to you her letter , I make bold to recommend the case therein mentioned to your consideration , because she and I happen to differ a little in our notions ...
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... servant , J. GRAHAM . ' No. 68. FRIDAY , MAY 18. By Addison . Nos duo turba sumus- -Ovid Met . 1. 1. 355 . We two are a multitude . ONE would think that the larger the company is , in which we are engaged , the greater variety of ...
... servant , J. GRAHAM . ' No. 68. FRIDAY , MAY 18. By Addison . Nos duo turba sumus- -Ovid Met . 1. 1. 355 . We two are a multitude . ONE would think that the larger the company is , in which we are engaged , the greater variety of ...
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... servants . If thou be brought low , he will be against thee , and hide himself from thy face . ' What can be more strong and pointed than the following verse ? ' Separate thyself from thine enemies , and take heed of thy friends . ' In ...
... servants . If thou be brought low , he will be against thee , and hide himself from thy face . ' What can be more strong and pointed than the following verse ? ' Separate thyself from thine enemies , and take heed of thy friends . ' In ...
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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.