The Spectator, Том 1Alexander Chalmers D. Appleton and Company, 1853 |
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... laugh , though we generally smile ; but it is a smile always of affection , and frequently of esteem . " Secondly , I cannot admit that there is in this character any thing of rusticity ( as that word is generally understood ) , or any ...
... laugh , though we generally smile ; but it is a smile always of affection , and frequently of esteem . " Secondly , I cannot admit that there is in this character any thing of rusticity ( as that word is generally understood ) , or any ...
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... laughs easily . 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 , that way of placing their hoods ; whose frailty was covered ...
... laughs easily . 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 , that way of placing their hoods ; whose frailty was covered ...
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... laugh ? AN opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lav- ish in its decorations , as its only design is to gratify ... laughed , to have seen Nicolini exposed to a tempest in robes of ermine , and sailing in an open boat upon a sea of ...
... laugh ? AN opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lav- ish in its decorations , as its only design is to gratify ... laughed , to have seen Nicolini exposed to a tempest in robes of ermine , and sailing in an open boat upon a sea of ...
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... laugh at witches , ghosts , and prodigies ? I GOING yesterday to dine with an old acquaintance , I had the misfortune to find his whole family very much dejected . Upon asking him the occasion of it , he told me that his wife had dreamt ...
... laugh at witches , ghosts , and prodigies ? I GOING yesterday to dine with an old acquaintance , I had the misfortune to find his whole family very much dejected . Upon asking him the occasion of it , he told me that his wife had dreamt ...
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... laughs and gestures , enforced his ar- guments by quotations out of plays and songs , which allude to the perjuries of the fair , and the general levity of women . Methought he strove to shine more than ordinarily in his talkative way ...
... laughs and gestures , enforced his ar- guments by quotations out of plays and songs , which allude to the perjuries of the fair , and the general levity of women . Methought he strove to shine more than ordinarily in his talkative way ...
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Сторінка 143 - 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. How often, from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to others...
Сторінка 81 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Сторінка 290 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Сторінка 84 - I am very well versed in the theory of an husband or a father, and can discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversion of others better than those who are engaged in them, as standers-by discover blots which are apt to escape those who are in the game.
Сторінка 309 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Сторінка 279 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
Сторінка 524 - Yet innocence and virgin modesty, Her virtue, and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won, Not obvious, not obtrusive, but...
Сторінка 428 - With that there came an arrow keen Out of an English bow, Which struck Earl Douglas to the heart, A deep and deadly blow ; Who never spoke more words than these : Fight on, my merry men all ; For why, my life is at an end, Lord Percy sees my fall.
Сторінка 82 - Whether this might proceed from a lawsuit which was then depending in the family, or my father's being a justice of the peace, I cannot determine; for I am not so vain as to think it presaged any dignity that I should arrive at in my future life, though that was the interpretation which the neighborhood put upon it.
Сторінка 87 - THE first of our society is a gentleman of Worcestershire, of an ancient descent, a baronet, his name Sir Roger de Coverley. His great-grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance which is called after him. All who know that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger.