The Spectator. Volume the First. [-eighth.].J. and R. Tonson in the Strand., 1744 |
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... Friends that know me ; of whom my next Paper fhall give a more particular Account . There is no Place of general Refort , wherein I do not often make my Appearance ; fometimes I am feen thrufting my Head into a Round of Politicians at ...
... Friends that know me ; of whom my next Paper fhall give a more particular Account . There is no Place of general Refort , wherein I do not often make my Appearance ; fometimes I am feen thrufting my Head into a Round of Politicians at ...
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... Friends , that it is pity fo many useful Discoveries which I have made fhould be in the Poffeffion of a filent Man . For this Reason therefore , I fhall publish a Sheet - full of Thoughts every Morning , for the Benefit of my Con ...
... Friends , that it is pity fo many useful Discoveries which I have made fhould be in the Poffeffion of a filent Man . For this Reason therefore , I fhall publish a Sheet - full of Thoughts every Morning , for the Benefit of my Con ...
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... Friends have engaged me to ftand in the Front , those who have a mind to correfpond with me , may direct their Letters to the SPECTATOR , at Mr. Buckley's in Little - Britain . For I muft further acquaint the Reader , that tho ' our ...
... Friends have engaged me to ftand in the Front , those who have a mind to correfpond with me , may direct their Letters to the SPECTATOR , at Mr. Buckley's in Little - Britain . For I muft further acquaint the Reader , that tho ' our ...
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... Friends rather as Matter of Rallery than Truth . He is now in his fifty fixth Year , chearful , gay , and hearty ; keeps a good House both in Town and Country ; a great Lover of Mankind ; but there is fuch a mirthful Caft in his ...
... Friends rather as Matter of Rallery than Truth . He is now in his fifty fixth Year , chearful , gay , and hearty ; keeps a good House both in Town and Country ; a great Lover of Mankind ; but there is fuch a mirthful Caft in his ...
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... Friends , know he has a great deal of Wit . This Turn makes him at once both difinterested and agreeable : As few of his Thoughts are drawn from Bufinefs , they are most of them fit for Converfation . His Tafte of Books is a little too ...
... Friends , know he has a great deal of Wit . This Turn makes him at once both difinterested and agreeable : As few of his Thoughts are drawn from Bufinefs , they are most of them fit for Converfation . His Tafte of Books is a little too ...
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Сторінка 13 - 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 18 - I am next to speak of as one of our company, for he visits us but seldom; but when he does, it adds to every man else a new enjoyment of himself. He is a clergyman, a very philosophic man, of general learning, great sanctity of life, and the most exact good breeding.
Сторінка 273 - Nature seems to have taken a particular care to disseminate her blessings among the different regions of the world, with an eye to this mutual intercourse and traffic among mankind, that the natives of the several parts of the globe might have a kind of dependence upon one another, and be united together by their common interest.
Сторінка 201 - ... ligatures, that we are apt to think are the occasion of several distempers among them, which our country is entirely free from. Instead of those beautiful feathers with which we adorn our heads, they often buy up a monstrous bush of hair, which covers their heads, and falls down in a large fleece below the middle of their backs ; with which they walk up and down the streets, and are as proud of it as if it was of their own growth. ' We were invited to one of their public diversions, where we...
Сторінка 273 - If we consider our own country in its natural prospect, without any of the benefits and advantages of commerce, what a barren, uncomfortable spot of earth falls to our share...
Сторінка 249 - Poets who want this strength of genius to give that majestic simplicity to nature, which we so much admire in the works of the ancients, are forced to hunt after foreign ornaments, and not to let any piece of wit of what kind soever escape them. I look upon these writers as Goths in poetry, who, like those in architecture, not being able to come up to the beautiful simplicity of the old Greeks and Romans, have endeavoured to supply its place with all the extravagancies of an irregular fancy.
Сторінка 255 - ... the wantonness of new appearances; but on such also who have just enough to clothe them. An old acquaintance of mine of ninety pounds a year, who has naturally the vanity of being a man of fashion deep at his heart, is very much put to it to bear the mortality of princes.
Сторінка 272 - ... solemnities I cannot forbear expressing my joy with tears that have stolen down my cheeks. For this reason I am wonderfully- delighted to see such a body of men thriving in their own private fortunes, and at the...
Сторінка 14 - 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. When he comes into a house, he calls the servants by their names, and talks all the way up stairs to a visit.