Selections from the Tatler, Spectator and GuardianClarendon Press, 1896 - 504 стор. |
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Сторінка xxviii
... carry my Humility so far as to call myself a vicious Man ; but at the same Time must confess , my Life is at best but pardonable . And with no greater Character than this , a Man would make but an in- different Progress in attacking ...
... carry my Humility so far as to call myself a vicious Man ; but at the same Time must confess , my Life is at best but pardonable . And with no greater Character than this , a Man would make but an in- different Progress in attacking ...
Сторінка xxxiv
... carried far more guns than Steele in this kind of conflict , and his method is more noisome and deadly ; but any one who will take the trouble to read the whole of these pamphlets to - day will rapidly be convinced that if Swift had the ...
... carried far more guns than Steele in this kind of conflict , and his method is more noisome and deadly ; but any one who will take the trouble to read the whole of these pamphlets to - day will rapidly be convinced that if Swift had the ...
Сторінка xl
... carried upon his back . Dennis charged Steele with tacit complicity in this piece of bad taste . After admitting that , on the contrary , it had given him pain , Steele , in his character of Edgar , comments as follows : - ' It could ...
... carried upon his back . Dennis charged Steele with tacit complicity in this piece of bad taste . After admitting that , on the contrary , it had given him pain , Steele , in his character of Edgar , comments as follows : - ' It could ...
Сторінка xliii
... carried off by consumption in the year following her father's death . There are several portraits of Sir Richard Steele . To three of these he himself makes reference in his reply to one of Dennis's papers , which contains a vulgar ...
... carried off by consumption in the year following her father's death . There are several portraits of Sir Richard Steele . To three of these he himself makes reference in his reply to one of Dennis's papers , which contains a vulgar ...
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... carry a man further even to his profit than indulging the propensity of serving and obliging the fortunate . My author argues on this subject , in order to incline men's minds to those who want them most , after this manner : ' We must ...
... carry a man further even to his profit than indulging the propensity of serving and obliging the fortunate . My author argues on this subject , in order to incline men's minds to those who want them most , after this manner : ' We must ...
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Сторінка 142 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night With this her solemn bird; nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.
Сторінка 415 - ... uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
Сторінка 142 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Сторінка 110 - ... his tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company...
Сторінка 109 - He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world, only as he thinks the world is in the wrong.
Сторінка 113 - This way of talking of his very much enlivens 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 is usually called a well-bred fine gentleman. To conclude his character, where women are not concerned, he is an honest, worthy man. I cannot tell whether I am to account him whom I am next to speak of as one of our company, for he visits us but seldom; but when he does, it adds...
Сторінка 112 - He is very ready at that sort of discourse with which men usually entertain women. He has all his life dressed very well, and remembers habits as others do men. He can smile when one speaks to him, and laughs easily. He knows the history of every mode...
Сторінка 145 - Papa could not hear me, and would play with me no more, for they were going to put him under ground, whence he could never come to us again.
Сторінка 470 - There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school : A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
Сторінка 145 - She was a very beautiful woman, of a noble spirit, and there was a dignity in her grief amidst all the wildness of her transport; which, methought, struck me with an instinct of sorrow, that, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since.