The Spectator: In Eight Volumes. : Vol. I[-VIII].Angier March., 1803 |
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... rival . " Addison's conversation , " says Pope , " had some- " thing in it more charming than I have found in any " other man . But this was only when familiar : Be- 66 " fore strangers , or perhaps a single stranger , xvi LIFE OF.
... rival . " Addison's conversation , " says Pope , " had some- " thing in it more charming than I have found in any " other man . But this was only when familiar : Be- 66 " fore strangers , or perhaps a single stranger , xvi LIFE OF.
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... that had a great deal of learning , if I would but shew it . An insatiable thirst after knowledge carried me into all the countries of Europe , in which there was any thing new or strange to be seen ; THE SPECTATOK .
... that had a great deal of learning , if I would but shew it . An insatiable thirst after knowledge carried me into all the countries of Europe , in which there was any thing new or strange to be seen ; THE SPECTATOK .
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... thing but the Postman , overhear the conversation of every table in the room . I appear on Sunday nights at St. James ' coffee - house ; and sometimes join the little committee of politics in the inner room , as one who comes there to ...
... thing but the Postman , overhear the conversation of every table in the room . I appear on Sunday nights at St. James ' coffee - house ; and sometimes join the little committee of politics in the inner room , as one who comes there to ...
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... gratify my Reader in any thing that is reasonable ; but as for these three particulars , though I am sensible they might tend very much to the embellishment of my paper , I cannot yet come to a resolution of 6 THE SPECTATOR .
... gratify my Reader in any thing that is reasonable ; but as for these three particulars , though I am sensible they might tend very much to the embellishment of my paper , I cannot yet come to a resolution of 6 THE SPECTATOR .
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... thing of a courtier , as well as a soldier . I have heard him often lament , that in a profession where merit is placed in so conspicuous a view , impudence should get the better of modesty . When he has talked to this purpose , I never ...
... thing of a courtier , as well as a soldier . I have heard him often lament , that in a profession where merit is placed in so conspicuous a view , impudence should get the better of modesty . When he has talked to this purpose , I never ...
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58 페이지 - ... 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...
324 페이지 - 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.
8 페이지 - 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...
70 페이지 - 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.
6 페이지 - 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.
xviii 페이지 - ... 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.
318 페이지 - 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...
196 페이지 - 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!
4 페이지 - 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.
116 페이지 - ... 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...