Readings from the Spectator. With notes1884 |
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... whole management was in the hands of Addison . The total number of papers in the Spectator is 635. More than 500 of these were contributed by Addison and Steele in about equal proportions . As a rule , the light and humorous sketches ...
... whole management was in the hands of Addison . The total number of papers in the Spectator is 635. More than 500 of these were contributed by Addison and Steele in about equal proportions . As a rule , the light and humorous sketches ...
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... whole and entire , without the loss or acquisition of a single field or meadow , during the space of six hundred years . There runs a story in the family , that before I was born , my mother dreamt I was to be a judge . Whether this ...
... whole and entire , without the loss or acquisition of a single field or meadow , during the space of six hundred years . There runs a story in the family , that before I was born , my mother dreamt I was to be a judge . Whether this ...
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... whole life . Whilst I was in this learned body , I applied myself with so much diligence to my studies , that there are very few celebrated books , either in the learned or the modern tongues , which I am not acquainted with . 4. Upon ...
... whole life . Whilst I was in this learned body , I applied myself with so much diligence to my studies , that there are very few celebrated books , either in the learned or the modern tongues , which I am not acquainted with . 4. Upon ...
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... whole year , where I saw with a great deal of pleasure Archbishop Tillotson , Bishop Saunderson , Dr. Barrow , Dr. Calamy , with several living authors who have published discourses of practical divinity . I no sooner saw this venerable ...
... whole year , where I saw with a great deal of pleasure Archbishop Tillotson , Bishop Saunderson , Dr. Barrow , Dr. Calamy , with several living authors who have published discourses of practical divinity . I no sooner saw this venerable ...
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... whole village meet together with their best faces , and in their cleanliest habits , to converse with one another upon indifferent subjects , hear their duties explained to SIR ROGER AT CHURCH . 19 Sir Roger at Church,
... whole village meet together with their best faces , and in their cleanliest habits , to converse with one another upon indifferent subjects , hear their duties explained to SIR ROGER AT CHURCH . 19 Sir Roger at Church,
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Addison Aeneid affliction agreeable ancient animal Antiphanes appear authors beauty body born B.C. calamities called cast celebrated cheerfulness church cloth boards colours consider conversation creatures daugh death delight dervis discourse divine Ecclesiasticus endeavour English English language Epictetus eternity exercise fancy father Freeport friend Sir Roger genius gentleman give hand happy heap heart honour human humour imagination Jupiter kind king knight language lives look Lord mankind manner master melancholy mind mirth misery morality nature never objects observed occasion ourselves paper particular passed person philosopher pleased pleasures Plutarch poet Quit-rent reader reason Ribaldry Roger de Coverley says Sir Roger secret short sight Sir Andrew Sir Cloudesley Shovel Sir Richard Baker soul species Spectator speculations spleen Tatler tell temper thee thou thought tion told Trepan Tudor Period virtue weight WESTMINSTER ABBEY Whig whole words writing
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59 페이지 - ... thick for the eye to penetrate, I saw the valley opening at the farther end, and spreading forth into an immense ocean, that had a huge rock of adamant running through the midst of it, and dividing it into two equal parts. The clouds still rested on one half of it, insomuch that I could discover nothing in it; but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among...
20 페이지 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if, by chance, he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and, if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself, or sends his servants to them.
56 페이지 - ... him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions with which I approached him. He lifted me from the ground, and taking me by the hand, 'Mirza,' said he, 'I have heard thee in thy soliloquies; follow me.
55 페이지 - I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.
14 페이지 - He will often argue, that if this part of our trade were Well cultivated, we should gain from one nation ; and if another, from another. I have heard him prove, that diligence makes more lasting acquisitions than valour, and that sloth has ruined more nations than the sword. He abounds in several frugal •maxims, amongst which the greatest favourite is,. ' A penny saved is a penny got.
13 페이지 - He is now in his fifty-sixth year, cheerful, gay, and hearty; keeps a good house both in town and country; a great lover of mankind; but there is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour, that he is rather beloved than esteemed. His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
7 페이지 - 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 a like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
58 페이지 - I, man was made in vain ! How is he given away to misery and mortality! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death! The genius being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. Look no more...
59 페이지 - I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats ; but the genius told me there was no passage to them, except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge. The islands...
92 페이지 - The Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.