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... acquainted with . Upon the death of my father I was resolved to travel into foreign countries , and therefore left the university with the character of an odd unaccountable fellow , that had a great deal of learning , if I would but ...
... acquainted with . Upon the death of my father I was resolved to travel into foreign countries , and therefore left the university with the character of an odd unaccountable fellow , that had a great deal of learning , if I would but ...
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... acquaint the reader , that though our club meets only on Tuesdays and Thursdays , we have appointed a committee to sit every night for the inspection of all such papers as may contribute to the advancement of the public weal . - Addison ...
... acquaint the reader , that though our club meets only on Tuesdays and Thursdays , we have appointed a committee to sit every night for the inspection of all such papers as may contribute to the advancement of the public weal . - Addison ...
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... acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger . He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behavior , but his singularities proceed from his good sense , and are contradictions to the manners of the world , only as he thinks the ...
... acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger . He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behavior , but his singularities proceed from his good sense , and are contradictions to the manners of the world , only as he thinks the ...
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... acquainted with commerce in all its parts , and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms ; for true power is to be got by arts and industry . He will often argue , that if this part of our trade ...
... acquainted with commerce in all its parts , and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms ; for true power is to be got by arts and industry . He will often argue , that if this part of our trade ...
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... acquaintance and relations , furnished out a very decent execution . Having thus taken my resolutions to march on boldly in the cause of virtue and good sense , and to annoy their adversaries in whatever degree or rank of men they may ...
... acquaintance and relations , furnished out a very decent execution . Having thus taken my resolutions to march on boldly in the cause of virtue and good sense , and to annoy their adversaries in whatever degree or rank of men they may ...
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acquainted Addison and Steele agreeable animals appear beautiful behavior breeding Captain Sentry character club conversation court creature delight discourse Edited by SAMUEL English Essay Eudoxus father Florio followed fortune Freeport friend Sir Roger gentleman George Etheridge give Glaphyra gypsy hand hear heard heart Henry Cuyler Bunner honest honor humor JOSEPH ADDISON Julius Cæsar July kind lady Laertes learned Leontine lives look mankind manner master Midsummer Night's Dream mind Moll White motto Nævia nature never observed occasion ordinary particular pass passion person pleased pleasure Poems polite reader reason Roger de Coverley SAMUEL THURBER says Sir Roger sense servants Sir Andrew Freeport soul speak Spectator story talk Tatler tell thee Themista thou thought tion told town Vauxhall Gardens VIRG virtue walk WATROUS whigs whole widow Wimble woman writers young
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Сторінка 47 - 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.
Сторінка 128 - This mischief had not then befall'n, And more that shall befall; innumerable Disturbances on earth through female snares, And straight conjunction with this sex: for either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake, Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain Through her perverseness; but shall see her...
Сторінка ix - In short, wherever I see a cluster of people, I always mix with them, though I never open my lips but in my own club. Thus I live in the -world, rather as a spectator of mankind, than as one of the species...
Сторінка xv - He will often argue, that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation; and if another, from another.
Сторінка xv - 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 xv - ... his temper being naturally jovial, he at last got over it, he grew careless of himself, and never dressed afterwards. He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that were in fashion at the time of his repulse, which, in his merry humours, he tells us, has been in and out twelve times since he first wore it.
Сторінка xv - He knows the history of every mode, and can inform you from which of the French king's wenches our wives and daughters had this manner of curling their hair...
Сторінка 32 - As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side : and every now and then...
Сторінка 32 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees anybody else nodding either wakes them himself or sends his servants to them.
Сторінка xv - Freeport, a merchant of great eminence in the city of London; a person of indefatigable industry, strong reason, and great experience. His notions of trade are noble and generous, and (as every rich man has usually some sly way of jesting, which would make no great figure were he not a rich man) he calls the sea the British Common.