The Spectator: In Eight Volumes. : Vol. I[-VIII].Angier March., 1803 |
Между кориците на книгата
Резултати 1 - 5 от 7.
Страница 262
... acrostic , by which means some of the most arrant and undisputed block- heads about the town began to entertain ambitious thoughts , and to set up for polite authors . I shall therefore describe at length those many arts of false wit ...
... acrostic , by which means some of the most arrant and undisputed block- heads about the town began to entertain ambitious thoughts , and to set up for polite authors . I shall therefore describe at length those many arts of false wit ...
Страница 264
... acrostic land ; There may'st thou wings display , and altars raise , And torture one poor word a thousand ways . This fashion of false wit was revived by several poets of the last age , and in particular it may be met with among Mr ...
... acrostic land ; There may'st thou wings display , and altars raise , And torture one poor word a thousand ways . This fashion of false wit was revived by several poets of the last age , and in particular it may be met with among Mr ...
Страница 272
... acrostics when the principal letters stand two or three deep : I have seen some of them where the verses have not only been edged by a name at each extremi- ty , but have had the same name running down like a seam through the middle of ...
... acrostics when the principal letters stand two or three deep : I have seen some of them where the verses have not only been edged by a name at each extremi- ty , but have had the same name running down like a seam through the middle of ...
Страница 279
... Acrostics handed about the town with great se- crecy and applause ; to which I must also add a little epigram called the Witches Prayer , that fell into verse when it was read either backward or forward , excepting one only that is ...
... Acrostics handed about the town with great se- crecy and applause ; to which I must also add a little epigram called the Witches Prayer , that fell into verse when it was read either backward or forward , excepting one only that is ...
Страница 281
... acrostics ; sometimes of syllables , as in echos and doggerel rhymes : sometimes of words , as in puns and quibbles ; and sometimes of whole sentences or poems , cast into the figure of eggs , axes or altars :: nay , some carry the ...
... acrostics ; sometimes of syllables , as in echos and doggerel rhymes : sometimes of words , as in puns and quibbles ; and sometimes of whole sentences or poems , cast into the figure of eggs , axes or altars :: nay , some carry the ...
Други издания - Преглед на всички
Често срещани думи и фрази
acquaint Acrostics Addison admiration Æneid agreeable Anagrams appear APRIL 13 Aristotle audience beautiful behaviour called character club coffee-house consider conversation delight discourse diversion dress DRYDEN earl Douglas endeavour English entertainment eyes favour federacy genius gentleman give hand heard heart hero Honeycomb honour humble servant humour innocent Italian kind king lady laugh learned letter lion live look lover mankind manner March 15 means mind nature nerally never night observed occasion opera OVID paper particular passion person Pharamond Pict play pleased pleasure poem poet Porus present prince reader reason ridiculous ROSCOMMON scenes sense shew Sir Roger speak Spectator stage talk Tatler tell ther thing thou thought tion told town tragedy turn Venice Preserv'd verse VIRG Virgil virtue Whig whole woman women words writing young
Популярни откъси
Страница 58 - ... men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night : how often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator...
Страница 324 - With that there came an arrow keen Out of an English bow, Which struck Earl Douglas to the heart, A deep and deadly blow ; Who never spoke more words than these : Fight on, my merry men all ; For why, my life is at an end, Lord Percy sees my fall.
Страница 8 - The first of our society is a gentleman of Worcestershire, of ancient descent, a baronet, his name Sir Roger de Coverley". His great-grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance" which is called after him. All who know ' that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger. He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world only as he thinks the world is in the...
Страница 70 - True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise : it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self; and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Страница 6 - I am very well versed in the theory of a husband, or a father, and can discern the errors in the oeconomy, business., and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them; as standers-by discover blots, which are apt to escape those who are in the game.
Страница xviii - ... truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed. This is an elevation of literary character "above all Greek, above all Roman fame.
Страница 318 - Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate; our tables are stored with spices and oils and wines; our rooms are filled with pyramids of china, and adorned with the workmanship of Japan; our morning's draught comes to us from the remotest corners of the earth; we repair our bodies by the drugs of America, and repose ourselves under Indian canopies. My friend Sir Andrew calls the vineyards of France our gardens; the Spice Islands our hotbeds; the Persians our silkweavers; and the Chinese...
Страница 196 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Страница 4 - I had not been long at the university before I distinguished myself by a most profound silence ; for during the space of eight years, excepting in the public exercises of the college, I scarce uttered the quantity of an hundred words ; and indeed do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole life.
Страница 116 - ... and enemies, priests and soldiers, monks and prebendaries, were crumbled amongst one another, and blended together in the same common mass ; how beauty, strength, and youth, with old age, weakness, and deformity, lay undistinguished in the same promiscuous heap of matter. After having thus surveyed this great magazine of mortality, as it were, in the lump ; I examined it more particularly by the accounts which I found on several of the monuments...