The Spectator, Том 1Alexander Chalmers D. Appleton and Company, 1853 |
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... lord , who lives retired among flatterers and vassals . Solitary grandeur is apt to engender pride , a pas- sion from which our worthy Baronet is entirely free ; and rusticity , as far as it is connected with the mind , implies ...
... lord , who lives retired among flatterers and vassals . Solitary grandeur is apt to engender pride , a pas- sion from which our worthy Baronet is entirely free ; and rusticity , as far as it is connected with the mind , implies ...
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... , though far inferior , is only inferior to Shak- speare's Falstaff . " Royal and Noble Authors . Lord Orford's Works , vol . i . p . 530 , art . Nugent , note . be observed , is in that paper very different from BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . 11.
... , though far inferior , is only inferior to Shak- speare's Falstaff . " Royal and Noble Authors . Lord Orford's Works , vol . i . p . 530 , art . Nugent , note . be observed , is in that paper very different from BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . 11.
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... Lord Chesterfield thinks " no man ever had so much humour as Molière , of which his Miser , his Jealous Man , and his Bourgeois Gentilhomme are convincing proofs : and French comedy , " he adds , " furnishes a multipli- city of ...
... Lord Chesterfield thinks " no man ever had so much humour as Molière , of which his Miser , his Jealous Man , and his Bourgeois Gentilhomme are convincing proofs : and French comedy , " he adds , " furnishes a multipli- city of ...
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... Lord Orford , speaking of Addison , Swift , Boling- broke , and Dr. Middleton , " fix a standard by their writings . Grammarians regulate niceties , and try careless beauties in works , where carelessness often is a beauty , by the same ...
... Lord Orford , speaking of Addison , Swift , Boling- broke , and Dr. Middleton , " fix a standard by their writings . Grammarians regulate niceties , and try careless beauties in works , where carelessness often is a beauty , by the same ...
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... Lord Wharton . In this employment , such was Budgell's attention to business , that in 1714 he was promoted to the office of chief secretary to the lords justices of Ireland , and deputy clerk of the council , and his talents were ...
... Lord Wharton . In this employment , such was Budgell's attention to business , that in 1714 he was promoted to the office of chief secretary to the lords justices of Ireland , and deputy clerk of the council , and his talents were ...
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Страница 81 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Страница 309 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Страница 83 - 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 21 - It is not uncommon for those who have grown wise by the labour of others to add a little of their own, and overlook their masters. Addison is now despised by some who perhaps would never have seen his defects but by the lights which he afforded them.
Страница 206 - Some of them were covered with such extravagant epitaphs, that if it were possible for the dead person to be acquainted with them, he would blush at the praises which his friends have bestowed upon him. There are others so excessively modest, that they deliver the character of the person departed in Greek or Hebrew, and by that means are not understood once in a twelvemonth. In the poetical quarter, I found there were poets who had no monuments, and monuments which had no poets.
Страница 20 - ... and of 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 290 - 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 521 - Of nuptial sanctity and marriage rites : Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
Страница 271 - ... troubles, or made him triumph over his enemies. This error they have been led into by a ridiculous doctrine in modern criticism, that they are obliged to an equal distribution of rewards and punishments, and an impartial execution of poetical justice.
Страница 324 - The women look like angels, and would be more beautiful than the sun, were it not for little black spots that are apt to break out in their faces, and sometimes rise in very odd figures. I have observed that those little blemishes wear off very soon ; but when they disappear in one part of the face, they are very apt to break out in another, insomuch that I have seen a spot upon the forehead in the afternoon, which was upon the chin in the morning.