The SpectatorPutnam, 1856 |
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... conversation of every table in the room . I appear on Sunday nights at St. James's Coffee - house , and sometimes ... conversation till midnight . Here you will see blue and green ribbons and stars familiarly , and talking with the same ...
... conversation of every table in the room . I appear on Sunday nights at St. James's Coffee - house , and sometimes ... conversation till midnight . Here you will see blue and green ribbons and stars familiarly , and talking with the same ...
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... conversation . His taste of books is a little too just for the age he lives in ; he has read all , but approves of very few . His familiarity with the customs , manners , actions , and writings of the ancients , makes him a very ...
... conversation . His taste of books is a little too just for the age he lives in ; he has read all , but approves of very few . His familiarity with the customs , manners , actions , and writings of the ancients , makes him a very ...
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... conversation among us of a more sedate turn ; and I find there is not one of the company , but myself , who rarely speak at all , but speaks of him as of that sort of man who here described : but , as in the former instances , the ...
... conversation among us of a more sedate turn ; and I find there is not one of the company , but myself , who rarely speak at all , but speaks of him as of that sort of man who here described : but , as in the former instances , the ...
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... conversation of any body that addresses himself to them . There are several rooms where the parties may retire , and , if they please , shew their faces by consent . Whispers , squeezes , nods , and embraces , are the innocent freedoms ...
... conversation of any body that addresses himself to them . There are several rooms where the parties may retire , and , if they please , shew their faces by consent . Whispers , squeezes , nods , and embraces , are the innocent freedoms ...
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... conversation . The Hum - Drum Club , of which I was formerly an unworthy member , was made up of very honest gentlemen , of peaceable dispositions , that used to sit together , smoke their pipes , and say nothing till midnight . The Mum ...
... conversation . The Hum - Drum Club , of which I was formerly an unworthy member , was made up of very honest gentlemen , of peaceable dispositions , that used to sit together , smoke their pipes , and say nothing till midnight . The Mum ...
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Сторінка 48 - 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.
Сторінка 12 - It is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him.
Сторінка 83 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Сторінка 381 - 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 them.
Сторінка 381 - I observed some with scimitars in their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trap-doors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped, had they not been thus forced upon them. "The genius, seeing me indulge myself in this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it. ' Take thine eyes off the bridge,' said he, ' and tell me if thou yet seest anything thou dost not comprehend.' Upon looking up,...
Сторінка 220 - The stout Earl of Northumberland, A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer's days to take; The chiefest harts in Chevy-Chase To kill and bear away.
Сторінка 289 - ... his virtues, as well as imperfections, are as it were tinged by a certain extravagance, which makes them particularly his, and distinguishes them from those of other men. This cast of mind, as it is generally very innocent in itself, so it renders his conversation highly agreeable, and more delightful than the same degree of sense and virtue would appear in their common and ordinary colours.
Сторінка 6 - Cocoa-tree, and in the theatres both of Drury-lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stockjobbers at Jonathan's.
Сторінка 379 - I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life ; consider it attentively.
Сторінка 302 - 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.