The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Том 1J. Crissy, 1824 |
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... virtues he recommended to others . His papers in the first seven volumes of the Spectator are marked by one of the letters in the name CLIO . EUSTACE BUDGELL . As a writer in the Spectator , Budgell may be ranked next to Addison and ...
... virtues he recommended to others . His papers in the first seven volumes of the Spectator are marked by one of the letters in the name CLIO . EUSTACE BUDGELL . As a writer in the Spectator , Budgell may be ranked next to Addison and ...
Сторінка xxi
... virtue and knowledge , and by recommending whatsoever may be either useful or ornamental to society . I know that the homage I now pay you , is offer- ing a kind of violence to one who is as solicitous to shun applause as he is ...
... virtue and knowledge , and by recommending whatsoever may be either useful or ornamental to society . I know that the homage I now pay you , is offer- ing a kind of violence to one who is as solicitous to shun applause as he is ...
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... virtue in her touch , which the poet tells us a Lydian king was formerly possess- ed of : and that she could convert whatever she pleased into that precious metal . After a little dizziness , and confused hurry of thought , which a man ...
... virtue in her touch , which the poet tells us a Lydian king was formerly possess- ed of : and that she could convert whatever she pleased into that precious metal . After a little dizziness , and confused hurry of thought , which a man ...
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... virtue ! what a spirit is there in those eyes ! what a bloom in that person ! how is the whole woman expressed in her appearance ! her air has the beauty of motion , and her look the force , of language . ' It was prudence to turn away ...
... virtue ! what a spirit is there in those eyes ! what a bloom in that person ! how is the whole woman expressed in her appearance ! her air has the beauty of motion , and her look the force , of language . ' It was prudence to turn away ...
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... virtue . But this un- happy affectation of being wise rather than honest , witty than good natured , is the source of most of the ill habits of life . Such false impressions are owing to the abandoned writings of men of wit , and the ...
... virtue . But this un- happy affectation of being wise rather than honest , witty than good natured , is the source of most of the ill habits of life . Such false impressions are owing to the abandoned writings of men of wit , and the ...
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Сторінка 30 - ... a gentleman of Worcestershire, of ancient descent, a baronet, his name Sir Roger de Coverley. His great grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance which is called after him. All who know that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger. 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 28 - In short, wherever I see a cluster of people I always mix with them, though I never open my lips but in my own club. Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind than as one of the species...
Сторінка 31 - 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 upstairs to a visit.
Сторінка 28 - I am very well versed in the theory of a husband, or a father, and can discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them; as standers-by discover blots which are apt to escape those who are in the game.
Сторінка 217 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
Сторінка 73 - I have often thought there has not been sufficient pains taken in finding out proper employments and diversions for the fair ones. Their amusements seem contrived for them, rather as they are women than as they are reasonable creatures ; and are more adapted to the sex than to the species.
Сторінка 36 - ... been in the female world: as other men of his age will take notice to you what such a minister said upon such and such an occasion, he will tell you, when the Duke of Monmouth danced at court, such a woman was then smitten, another was taken with him at the head of his troop in the Park. In...
Сторінка 27 - 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 stock-jobbers at Jonathan's.
Сторінка 144 - Some of them were covered with such extravagant epitaphs, that if it were possible for the dead person to be acquainted with them, he would blush at the praises which his friends have bestowed upon him. There are others so excessively modest, that they deliver the character of the person departed in Greek or Hebrew, and by that means are not understood once in a twelvemonth. In the poetical quarter, I found there were poets who had no monuments, and monuments which had no poets.
Сторінка 30 - However, this humour creates him no enemies, for he does nothing with sourness or obstinacy; and his being unconfined to modes and forms makes him but the readier and more capable to please and oblige all who know him.