The Spectator: ...J. Coote, 1778 |
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... heart in fpeech , I am refolved to do it in writing , and to print myself out , if poffible , before I die . I have been often told by my friends , that it is pity fo many useful difcoveries which I have made fhould be in the poffeffion ...
... heart in fpeech , I am refolved to do it in writing , and to print myself out , if poffible , before I die . I have been often told by my friends , that it is pity fo many useful difcoveries which I have made fhould be in the poffeffion ...
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... heart , I made it my bufinefs these three days to liften after my own fame ; and as I have fometimes met with circumstances which did not difpleafe me , I have been encountered by others which gave me as much mortification . It is ...
... heart , I made it my bufinefs these three days to liften after my own fame ; and as I have fometimes met with circumstances which did not difpleafe me , I have been encountered by others which gave me as much mortification . It is ...
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... hearts . By this means , love , during the time of my fpeculations , fhall be carried on with the fame fincerity as any other affair of lefs confideration . As this is the greatest concern , men fhall be from hence- forth liable to the ...
... hearts . By this means , love , during the time of my fpeculations , fhall be carried on with the fame fincerity as any other affair of lefs confideration . As this is the greatest concern , men fhall be from hence- forth liable to the ...
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... heart .. ; I pronounced these words with fuch a languishing air that I had fome reason to conclude I had made a con- queft . She told me that the hoped my face was not akin to my tongue , and looking upon her watch , I accidentally ...
... heart .. ; I pronounced these words with fuch a languishing air that I had fome reason to conclude I had made a con- queft . She told me that the hoped my face was not akin to my tongue , and looking upon her watch , I accidentally ...
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... heart danced in raptures , but I had not lived in this golden dream ' above three days , before I found good reafon to with ' that I had continued true to my laundrefs . I have ' fince heard , by a very great accident , that this fine ...
... heart danced in raptures , but I had not lived in this golden dream ' above three days , before I found good reafon to with ' that I had continued true to my laundrefs . I have ' fince heard , by a very great accident , that this fine ...
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Сторінка 107 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.
Сторінка 12 - I have acted in all the parts of my life as a looker-on, which is the character I intend to preserve in this paper.
Сторінка 106 - I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous minds and gloomy imaginations ; but for my own part, though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view of nature, in her deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones.
Сторінка 35 - In the midst of these my musings, she desired me to reach her a little salt upon the point of my knife, which I did in such a trepidation and hurry of obedience, that I let it drop by the way, at which she immediately startled, and said it fell towards her.
Сторінка 273 - ... common interest. Almost every degree produces something peculiar to it ; the food often grows in one country, and the sauce in another. The fruits of Portugal are corrected by the products of Barbadoes. The infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian cane.
Сторінка 30 - ... stage might be as much infested with mice, as the prince of the island was before the cat's arrival upon it; for which reason he would not permit it to be acted in his house. And indeed I cannot blame him: for, as he said very well upon that occasion, I do not hear that any of the performers in our opera pretend to equal the famous pied piper, who made all the mice of a great town in Germany follow his music, and by that means cleared the place of those little noxious animals.
Сторінка 17 - With this candour does the gentleman speak of himself and others. The same frankness runs through all his conversation. The military part of his life has...
Сторінка 9 - 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 200 - I could not observe any circumstance of devotion in their behaviour. There was indeed a man in black, who was mounted above the rest, and seemed to utter something with a great deal of vehemence ; but as for those underneath him, instead of paying their worship to the deity of the place, they were most of them bowing and curtseying to one another, and a considerable number of them fast asleep.
Сторінка 275 - So, on the contrary, an ordinary Song or Ballad that is the Delight of the common People, cannot fail to please all such Readers as are not unqualified for the Entertainment by their Affectation or Ignorance; and the Reason is plain, because the same Paintings of Nature which recommend it to the most ordinary Reader, will appear Beautiful to the most refined.