Eighteenth Century EssaysWillard Small, 1888 - 252 стор. |
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... speak so plainly for themselves that any lengthy intro- duction would only needlessly occupy space ; but a few rapid indications with respect to the earlier collections and the succession of the leading writers , will not be superfluous ...
... speak so plainly for themselves that any lengthy intro- duction would only needlessly occupy space ; but a few rapid indications with respect to the earlier collections and the succession of the leading writers , will not be superfluous ...
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... speaking of a chance addition to his wig as 66 the pendulous reproach to the honors of my head " ; but it would not be possible to admit these two papers , as well as some others in the " Adventurer , " into any modern collection ...
... speaking of a chance addition to his wig as 66 the pendulous reproach to the honors of my head " ; but it would not be possible to admit these two papers , as well as some others in the " Adventurer , " into any modern collection ...
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... speak freely to you , my old friend ; ever since her sickness , things that gave me the quickest joy before , turn now to a certain anxiety . As the children play in the next room , I know the poor things by their steps , and am ...
... speak freely to you , my old friend ; ever since her sickness , things that gave me the quickest joy before , turn now to a certain anxiety . As the children play in the next room , I know the poor things by their steps , and am ...
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... speak of a sickness , which was then past , without sorrow ? We were now got pretty far into Westminster , and arrived at my friend's house . At the door of it I met Favonius , not without a secret satisfaction to find he had been there ...
... speak of a sickness , which was then past , without sorrow ? We were now got pretty far into Westminster , and arrived at my friend's house . At the door of it I met Favonius , not without a secret satisfaction to find he had been there ...
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... speak be worth being heard , and endeavor to make our dis- course like that of Nestor , which Homer com- pares to the flowing of honey for its sweetness . I am afraid I shall be thought guilty of this excess I am speaking of , when I ...
... speak be worth being heard , and endeavor to make our dis- course like that of Nestor , which Homer com- pares to the flowing of honey for its sweetness . I am afraid I shall be thought guilty of this excess I am speaking of , when I ...
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a-clock acquaintance Addison admirable Adventurer Æneids agreeable Ambrose Philips Aurengzebe beauty Bickerstaff character church club coffee-house conversation Covent Garden cried critic dear death dined dinner discourse drank dressed entertainment eral essay est industry Estcourt excellent fancy followed Froth gave genius gentleman George Smalridge give Grand Vizier hand heard honor hour Hudibras humor Jack Journal kind lady learning letter Lion live look Lord manner mind mirth Mohocks morning Muscovy nature never night Nisby observe occasion paper parish passed person piece pleased pleasure poets poor pretty reader replied Roger de Coverley Roger hearing says servant shew Sir Roger sitting soon Spectator Steele Steele's talk taste Tatler tell thorough-bass thought thousand guineas Tibbs tion told took town turn Upholsterer verse Virg walk whole widow Wimble wine woman words
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Сторінка 30 - And these the gems of Heaven, her starry train: 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 236 - 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 142 - As we most of us are grown gray-headed in our dear master's service, he has left us pensions and legacies, which we may live very comfortably upon the remaining part of our days. He has bequeathed a great deal more in charity, which is not yet come to my knowledge ; and it is peremptorily said in the parish...
Сторінка 141 - KNOWING that you was my old master's good friend, I could not forbear sending you the melancholy news of his death, which has afflicted the whole country, as well as his poor servants, who loved him, I may say, better than we did our lives. I am afraid he caught his death the last county...
Сторінка 30 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth^ After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Сторінка 57 - The first sense of sorrow I ever knew was upon the death of my father, at which time I was not quite five years of age; but was rather amazed at what all the house meant, than possessed with a real understanding why nobody was willing to play with me. I remember I went into the room where his body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a beating the coffin, and calling Papa; for, I know not how, I had some slight idea that he was locked up there.
Сторінка 81 - I found on several of the monuments which are raised in every quarter of that ancient fabric. 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.
Сторінка 81 - Shovel's monument has very often given me great offence : instead of the brave rough English Admiral, which was the distinguishing character of that plain gallant man, he is represented on his tomb by the figure of a beau, dressed in a long periwig, and reposing himself upon velvet cushions under a canopy of state.
Сторінка 142 - The chaplain tells every body that he made a very good end, and never speaks of him without tears. He was buried, according to his own directions, among the family of the Coverleys, on the left hand of his father Sir Arthur. The coffin was carried by six of his tenants, and the pall held up by six of the quorum. The whole parish followed the corpse with heavy hearts, and in their mourning suits ; the men in frize, and the women in riding-hoods.
Сторінка 121 - Sir Roger's servants, and among the rest my old friend the butler, had, I found, provided themselves with good oaken plants, to attend their master upon this occasion. When...