The SpectatorPutnam, 1856 |
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... hear and improve . escape of overboiling party zeal ; and the hot blood , roused in public rooms to quarrelling pitch , was too often cooled by the rapier's point . Each coffee - house had its political or literary speciality ; and of ...
... hear and improve . escape of overboiling party zeal ; and the hot blood , roused in public rooms to quarrelling pitch , was too often cooled by the rapier's point . Each coffee - house had its political or literary speciality ; and of ...
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... hear that any of the per- formers 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 . Before I ...
... hear that any of the per- formers 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 . Before I ...
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Joseph Addison George Washington Greene. hear there is a treaty on foot with London and Wise ' ( who will be appointed gardeners of the playhouse ) to furnish the opera of Rinaldo and Armida with an orange - grove ; and that the next ...
Joseph Addison George Washington Greene. hear there is a treaty on foot with London and Wise ' ( who will be appointed gardeners of the playhouse ) to furnish the opera of Rinaldo and Armida with an orange - grove ; and that the next ...
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... hear will be continued with additions and improve- ments.1 As all the persons who compose this lawless assembly are masqued , we dare not attack any of them in our way , lest we should send a woman of quality to Bridewell , or a peer of ...
... hear will be continued with additions and improve- ments.1 As all the persons who compose this lawless assembly are masqued , we dare not attack any of them in our way , lest we should send a woman of quality to Bridewell , or a peer of ...
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... hear this great city inquir- ing day by day after these my papers , and receiving my morning lectures with a becoming serious nessand attention . My publisher tells me , that there are already three thousand of them distributed every ...
... hear this great city inquir- ing day by day after these my papers , and receiving my morning lectures with a becoming serious nessand attention . My publisher tells me , that there are already three thousand of them distributed every ...
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acrostics Addison admiration Æneid anagrams ancient Antanaclasis appear audience Avarice beautiful behaviour body Boileau called club Coan wines conversation creatures delight discourse dress DRYDEN Earl Douglas endeavour English entertainment epigram false wit figure filled forbear friend Sir Roger genius gentleman give Glaphyra hand head heart honour Hudibras humour ingenious insomuch Italian John Simmonds kings ladies language laugh learned letter likewise lion live look lover manner means Milston mind Mohocks nation nature never night observe occasion opera Ovid paper particular passion person piece pleased poem poet present reader reason rhymes ridicule ROSCOMMON says scenes sense shew short side soul speak Spect Spectator stage Tatler tell thing thou thought tion told tragedy Tryphiodorus verse VIRG Virgil virtue Whig whole woman women words writers
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Сторінка 82 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Сторінка 12 - It is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him.
Сторінка 222 - The noble earl was slain. He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth-yard long Up to the head drew he...
Сторінка 290 - I was walking with him last night, he asked me how I liked the good man whom I have just now mentioned ? and without staying for my answer told me. that he was afraid of being insulted with Latin and Greek at his own table ; for which reason he desired a particular friend of his at the university to find him out a clergyman rather of plain sense than much learning, of a good aspect, a clear voice, a sociable temper, and, if possible, a man that understood a little of back-gammon.
Сторінка 289 - My chief companion, when Sir Roger is diverting himself in the woods or the fields, is a very venerable man, who is ever with Sir Roger, and has lived at his house in the nature of a chaplain above thirty years. This gentleman is a person of good sense and some learning, of a very regular life and obliging conversation : he heartily loves Sir Roger, and knows that he is very much in the old knight's esteem ; so that he lives in the family rather as a relation than a dependant.
Сторінка 6 - Cocoa-tree, and in the theatres both of Drury-lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stockjobbers at Jonathan's.
Сторінка 435 - If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me ; what then shall I do when God riseth up ? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him...
Сторінка 291 - Calamy, with several living authors, who have published discourses of practical divinity. I no sooner saw this venerable man in the pulpit, but I very much approved of my friend's insisting upon the qualifications of a good aspect and a clear voice ; for I was so charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and delivery, as well as with the discourses he pronounced, that I think I never passed any time more to my satisfaction. A sermon repeated after this manner, is like the composition of a poet...
Сторінка 288 - You see the goodness of the master even in the old house-dog, and in a gray pad that is kept in the stable with great care and tenderness out of regard to his past services, though he has been useless for several years.
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