The Spectator, 2권 |
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... Paffions and Prejudices of a contemporary Author , but make an impartial
Distribution of Fame among the Great Men of the present Age , I cannot forbear
entertaining my self very often with the Idea of such an imaginary Historian
describing ...
... Paffions and Prejudices of a contemporary Author , but make an impartial
Distribution of Fame among the Great Men of the present Age , I cannot forbear
entertaining my self very often with the Idea of such an imaginary Historian
describing ...
85 페이지
... so one may say of this Author upon Sincerity , that he abhors any Pomp of
Rhetorick on this Occasion , and treats it with a more than ordinary Simplicity , at
once to be a Preacher and an Example , With what Command of himself does he
lay ...
... so one may say of this Author upon Sincerity , that he abhors any Pomp of
Rhetorick on this Occasion , and treats it with a more than ordinary Simplicity , at
once to be a Preacher and an Example , With what Command of himself does he
lay ...
208 페이지
Tully tells us of an Author that spent some Pages to prove that Generals could not
perform the great Enterprizes which have made them so illustrious , if they had
not had Men . He asserted also , it seems that a Minister at home , no more than a
...
Tully tells us of an Author that spent some Pages to prove that Generals could not
perform the great Enterprizes which have made them so illustrious , if they had
not had Men . He asserted also , it seems that a Minister at home , no more than a
...
263 페이지
It is a certain Sign of a foolish or a diffolute Mind if we want our Youth again only
for the Strength of Bones and Sinews which we once were Masters of . It is ( as
my Author has it ) as absurd in an old Man to wish for the Strength of a Youth , as
it ...
It is a certain Sign of a foolish or a diffolute Mind if we want our Youth again only
for the Strength of Bones and Sinews which we once were Masters of . It is ( as
my Author has it ) as absurd in an old Man to wish for the Strength of a Youth , as
it ...
292 페이지
An Imitation of the best Authors is not to compare with a good Original ; and I
believe we may observe that very few Writers ... I once saw a Shepherd , says a
famous Italian Author , who used to divert himfelf in his Solitudes with toffing up
Eggs ...
An Imitation of the best Authors is not to compare with a good Original ; and I
believe we may observe that very few Writers ... I once saw a Shepherd , says a
famous Italian Author , who used to divert himfelf in his Solitudes with toffing up
Eggs ...
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113 페이지 - Sometimes he will be lengthening out a verse in the singing psalms, half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it; sometimes when he is pleased with the matter of his devotion, he pronounces
285 페이지 - Some were looking up towards the heavens in a thoughtful posture, and in the midst of a speculation stumbled and fell out of sight. Multitudes were very busy in the pursuit of bubbles that glittered in their eyes and danced before them, but often when they thought themselves within the reach of them their footing failed and down they sunk.
287 페이지 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.
114 페이지 - Sunday in the dignity of his order, and insinuates to them in almost every sermon that he is a better man than his patron. In short, matters are come to such an extremity, that the squire has not said his prayers either in public or private this half year; and that the parson threatens him, if he does not mend his manners, to pray for him in the face of the whole congregation.
95 페이지 - My chief companion, when Sir Roger is diverting himself in the woods or the fields, is a very venerable man who is ever with Sir Roger, and has lived at his house in the nature of a chaplain above thirty years. This gentleman is a person of good sense and some learning, of a very regular life and obliging conversation: he heartily loves Sir Roger, and knows that he is very much in the old knight's esteem, so that he lives in the family rather as...
285 페이지 - I here fetched a deep sigh; Alas, said 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...
97 페이지 - 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. He then showed us his list of preachers for the whole year, where I saw, with a great deal of pleasure.
284 페이지 - As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon further examination, perceived there were innumerable trap-doors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon, but* they fell through them into the tide and immediately disappeared.
151 페이지 - Upon his first rising the court was hushed, and a general whisper ran among the country people, that Sir Roger < was up. ' The speech he made was so little to the purpose, that I shall not trouble my readers with an account of it; and I believe was not so much designed by the knight himself to inform the court, as to give him a figure in my eye, and keep up his credit in the country.
114 페이지 - As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side : and every now and then...