Selections from the Tatler, Spectator and GuardianClarendon Press, 1896 - 504 стор. |
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... conversation - talents to give his pleasures a daintier and more poignant relish . ' Apology , 1714 , p . 80 . According to Gildon ( Comparison between the Two Stages , 1702 ) , this was only ' a Trick of the Booksellers ' to get rid of ...
... conversation - talents to give his pleasures a daintier and more poignant relish . ' Apology , 1714 , p . 80 . According to Gildon ( Comparison between the Two Stages , 1702 ) , this was only ' a Trick of the Booksellers ' to get rid of ...
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... conversation ' —to use the eighteenth - century term for commerce with the world - the delicate lapidary skill of his more placid and introspective companion turned in the study into those gems of graceful irony , which , if only by ...
... conversation ' —to use the eighteenth - century term for commerce with the world - the delicate lapidary skill of his more placid and introspective companion turned in the study into those gems of graceful irony , which , if only by ...
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... conversation - piece ' of the Club is equally characteristic of the broader and hastier hand which drew Sir Jeoffrey Notch and the little knot of notables , who assembled nightly at the Trumpet ' . But Addison saw in Steele's kit - cat ...
... conversation - piece ' of the Club is equally characteristic of the broader and hastier hand which drew Sir Jeoffrey Notch and the little knot of notables , who assembled nightly at the Trumpet ' . But Addison saw in Steele's kit - cat ...
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... conversation : ' I know , ' said a gentleman , ' a way to be greater than any man . If he has worth in him , I can rejoice in his superiority to me ; and that satisfaction is a greater act of the soul in me , than any in him which can ...
... conversation : ' I know , ' said a gentleman , ' a way to be greater than any man . If he has worth in him , I can rejoice in his superiority to me ; and that satisfaction is a greater act of the soul in me , than any in him which can ...
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... conversation , as one professing one trade , and another another , is beneficial in commerce . The happiest climate does not produce all things ; and it was so ordered , that one part of the earth should want the product of another ...
... conversation , as one professing one trade , and another another , is beneficial in commerce . The happiest climate does not produce all things ; and it was so ordered , that one part of the earth should want the product of another ...
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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.