The SpectatorPutnam, 1856 |
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... play , the best company go to Tom's or Will's Coffee - house near adjoining ; where there is playing picquet and the best conversation till midnight . Here you will see blue and green ribbons and stars familiarly , and talking with the ...
... play , the best company go to Tom's or Will's Coffee - house near adjoining ; where there is playing picquet and the best conversation till midnight . Here you will see blue and green ribbons and stars familiarly , and talking with the ...
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... played an important part in history . The idea of uniting the authors of a periodical in a club - though an obvious one - was calculated to bring out sparkling contrasts of character . But it was not successfully elaborated . Each ...
... played an important part in history . The idea of uniting the authors of a periodical in a club - though an obvious one - was calculated to bring out sparkling contrasts of character . But it was not successfully elaborated . Each ...
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... player , to expose Bully Dawson , a noted sharper , swaggerer and debauchee about town , especially in Blackfriars and its infamous purlieus . " he grew careless of himself , and never dressed afterwards 12 [ No. 2 . SPECTATOR .
... player , to expose Bully Dawson , a noted sharper , swaggerer and debauchee about town , especially in Blackfriars and its infamous purlieus . " he grew careless of himself , and never dressed afterwards 12 [ No. 2 . SPECTATOR .
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... play is his hour of business ; exactly at five he passes through New - Inn , crosses through Russel - Court , and takes a turn at Will's till the play begins he has his shoes rubbed and his perriwig powdered at the barber's as you go ...
... play is his hour of business ; exactly at five he passes through New - Inn , crosses through Russel - Court , and takes a turn at Will's till the play begins he has his shoes rubbed and his perriwig powdered at the barber's as you go ...
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... play at a minute's warning , in case any such accident should happen . However , as I have a very great friendship for the owner of this theatre , I hope that he has been wise enough to insure his house before be would let this opera be ...
... play at a minute's warning , in case any such accident should happen . However , as I have a very great friendship for the owner of this theatre , I hope that he has been wise enough to insure his house before be would let this opera be ...
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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.