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... look satisfied , all the young women profess love to him , and the young men are glad of his company . When he comes into a house he calls the servants by their names , and talks all the way up stairs to a visit . I must not omit , that ...
... look satisfied , all the young women profess love to him , and the young men are glad of his company . When he comes into a house he calls the servants by their names , and talks all the way up stairs to a visit . I must not omit , that ...
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... looks like a little enchanted palace . The rocks about her are shaped into artificial grot- toes covered with woodbines and jessamines . The woods are cut into shady walks , twisted into bowers , and filled with cages of turtles . The ...
... looks like a little enchanted palace . The rocks about her are shaped into artificial grot- toes covered with woodbines and jessamines . The woods are cut into shady walks , twisted into bowers , and filled with cages of turtles . The ...
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... look upon her with a mixture of admiration and pity . Amidst these innocent entertainments which she has formed to herself , how much more valuable does she appear than those of her sex , who employ themselves in diversions that are ...
... look upon her with a mixture of admiration and pity . Amidst these innocent entertainments which she has formed to herself , how much more valuable does she appear than those of her sex , who employ themselves in diversions that are ...
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... looks of a privy- councillor . You see the goodness of the master even in the old house - dog , and in a grey pad that is kept in the stable with great care and tenderness out of regard to his past services , though he has been useless ...
... looks of a privy- councillor . You see the goodness of the master even in the old house - dog , and in a grey pad that is kept in the stable with great care and tenderness out of regard to his past services , though he has been useless ...
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... looks of all his servants . My worthy friend has put me under the particular care of his butler , who is a very prudent man , and , as well as the rest of his fellow - servants , wonderfully desirous of pleasing me , because they have ...
... looks of all his servants . My worthy friend has put me under the particular care of his butler , who is a very prudent man , and , as well as the rest of his fellow - servants , wonderfully desirous of pleasing me , because they have ...
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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.