The Spectator ...Angier March, 1803 |
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... learned a man as the colonel him- self : I say , thus qualified , the fellow could scrawl billet - doux so well , and furnish a conversation on the common topics , that he had , as they call it , a great deal of good business on his ...
... learned a man as the colonel him- self : I say , thus qualified , the fellow could scrawl billet - doux so well , and furnish a conversation on the common topics , that he had , as they call it , a great deal of good business on his ...
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... learned men of the present age , as I find it in the original . The reader will see it is not foreign to my present subject , and I dare say will think it a lively representation of a person lying under the torments of such a kind of ...
... learned men of the present age , as I find it in the original . The reader will see it is not foreign to my present subject , and I dare say will think it a lively representation of a person lying under the torments of such a kind of ...
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... learned roast an egg ; Hard task , to hit the palate of such guests . POPE . LOOKING Over the late packets of letters which have been sent to me , I found the following one , " MR . SPECTATOR , YOUR paper is a part of my tea - equipage ...
... learned roast an egg ; Hard task , to hit the palate of such guests . POPE . LOOKING Over the late packets of letters which have been sent to me , I found the following one , " MR . SPECTATOR , YOUR paper is a part of my tea - equipage ...
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... learned in the first week . The next motion is that of Unfurling the fan , in which are comprehended several little flirts and vibrations , as also gradual and deliberate openings , with many voluntary fallings asunder in the fan itself ...
... learned in the first week . The next motion is that of Unfurling the fan , in which are comprehended several little flirts and vibrations , as also gradual and deliberate openings , with many voluntary fallings asunder in the fan itself ...
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... learned in two days ' time as well as in a twelvemonth . When my female regiment is thus disarmed , I generally let them walk about the room for some time ; when on a sudden ( like ladies that look upon their watches after a long visit ) ...
... learned in two days ' time as well as in a twelvemonth . When my female regiment is thus disarmed , I generally let them walk about the room for some time ; when on a sudden ( like ladies that look upon their watches after a long visit ) ...
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Сторінка 144 - ... subjects, hear their duties explained to them, and join together in adoration of the Supreme Being. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week, not only as it refreshes in their minds the notions of religion, but as it puts both the sexes upon appearing in their most agreeable forms, and exerting all such qualities as are apt to give them a figure in the eye of the village.
Сторінка 368 - Examine now, said he, this sea that is bounded with darkness at both ends, and tell me what thou discoverest in it. I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide.
Сторінка 369 - ... them into the tide and immediately disappeared. These hidden pitfalls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Сторінка 367 - 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.
Сторінка 119 - 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 a relation than a dependant.
Сторінка 371 - I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. 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...
Сторінка 164 - 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-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Сторінка 366 - I was at Grand Cairo I picked up several oriental manuscripts, which I have still by me. Among others I met with one entitled, " The Visions of Mirzah," which I have read over with great pleasure.
Сторінка 193 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself, seconded by the applauses of the public.
Сторінка 127 - ... of his game. He hunts a pack of dogs better than any man in the country, and is very famous for finding out a hare. He is extremely well versed in all the little handicrafts of an idle man. He makes a May-fly to a miracle ; and furnishes the whole country with angle-rods.