Selections from the Tatler, Spectator and GuardianClarendon Press, 1896 - 504 стор. |
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... desire of you to get the coach and yourself ready as soon as you can conveniently , and call for me here , from whence we will go and spend some time together in the fresh air in free conference . Let my best periwig be put in the coach ...
... desire of you to get the coach and yourself ready as soon as you can conveniently , and call for me here , from whence we will go and spend some time together in the fresh air in free conference . Let my best periwig be put in the coach ...
Сторінка xliv
... desire to conciliate the pulpit and the stage . Whether this can or should be done , and whether 1 Rundle's Anticipation of the Posthumous Character of Sir R. Steele , Epist . Corr . 1809 , ii , p . 690 . Steele's attempts to do it are ...
... desire to conciliate the pulpit and the stage . Whether this can or should be done , and whether 1 Rundle's Anticipation of the Posthumous Character of Sir R. Steele , Epist . Corr . 1809 , ii , p . 690 . Steele's attempts to do it are ...
Сторінка xlvii
... desire , -for , whatever his errors , it was a sincere desire , -to promote the reformation of manners . In the second section come the ' Social Essays , ' which include character - sketches , and descriptions of manners , fashions ...
... desire , -for , whatever his errors , it was a sincere desire , -to promote the reformation of manners . In the second section come the ' Social Essays , ' which include character - sketches , and descriptions of manners , fashions ...
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... desire to be tried only by his peers . I thought it a noble sentiment which I heard yesterday uttered in 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 ...
... desire to be tried only by his peers . I thought it a noble sentiment which I heard yesterday uttered in 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 ...
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... desire we may be intimate friends for the future . ' The rich may as well ask to borrow of the poor , as the man of virtue or merit hope for addition to his character from any but such as himself . He that commends another engages so ...
... desire we may be intimate friends for the future . ' The rich may as well ask to borrow of the poor , as the man of virtue or merit hope for addition to his character from any but such as himself . He that commends another engages so ...
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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.