The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...Bosworth, 1853 |
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... passion for military life , and as his friends repeatedly refused to purchase him a commission , he boldly enlisted himself as a private in the Guards . By this step , Dick offended a rich relative who had made him his heir ; but such ...
... passion for military life , and as his friends repeatedly refused to purchase him a commission , he boldly enlisted himself as a private in the Guards . By this step , Dick offended a rich relative who had made him his heir ; but such ...
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... passionate Budgell , the earnest and industrious Grove , the kind and generous Parnell , the virtuous and metrical Byrom , the good and amiable Pearce , the brave and pompous Philips , the laurelled but unpoetical Eusden , the ...
... passionate Budgell , the earnest and industrious Grove , the kind and generous Parnell , the virtuous and metrical Byrom , the good and amiable Pearce , the brave and pompous Philips , the laurelled but unpoetical Eusden , the ...
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... passions themselves , when he should be inquiring into the debates among men which arise from them . He knows the argument of each of the orations of Demosthenes and Tully , but not one case in the reports of our own courts . No one ...
... passions themselves , when he should be inquiring into the debates among men which arise from them . He knows the argument of each of the orations of Demosthenes and Tully , but not one case in the reports of our own courts . No one ...
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... passions with which others are tormented , is the only pleasing solitude . I can very justly say with the ancient sage , " I am never less alone than when alone . " 66 As I am insignificant to the company in public places , and as it is ...
... passions with which others are tormented , is the only pleasing solitude . I can very justly say with the ancient sage , " I am never less alone than when alone . " 66 As I am insignificant to the company in public places , and as it is ...
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... passion , the cement of society , shall be severely examined . But this and all other mat- ters , loosely hinted at now , and in my former papers , shall have their proper place in my following discourses . The present writing is only ...
... passion , the cement of society , shall be severely examined . But this and all other mat- ters , loosely hinted at now , and in my former papers , shall have their proper place in my following discourses . The present writing is only ...
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1 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 the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
370 페이지 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded " ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lap'd like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly : Judge, when you hear.
340 페이지 - 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 humour, lets me rise and go to bed when I please, dine at his own table or in my chamber as I think fit, sit still and say nothing without bidding me be merry. When the gentlemen...
356 페이지 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.
197 페이지 - 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; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being mis-led by similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another.
356 페이지 - But a man can never have taken in his full measure of knowledge, has not time to subdue his passions, establish his soul in virtue, and come up to the perfection of his nature, before he is hurried off the stage.
225 페이지 - 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?
6 페이지 - 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.
293 페이지 - With what all Earth or Heaven could bestow To make her amiable...
359 페이지 - ... the death of the present incumbent, who is very old, to bestow it according to merit. The fair understanding between Sir Roger and his chaplain, and their mutual concurrence in doing good, is the more remarkable because the very next village is famous for the differences and contentions that rise between the parson and the "squire, who live in a perpetual state of war. The parson is always preaching at the 'squire; and the 'squire, to be revenged on the parson, never comes to church.