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Сторінка xiv
... gives the Spectator many opportunities for criticizing the tra- ditions of morality and breeding surviving from the 1 Courthope , p . 174 , describes these words as " a very mis- leading account of the matter , " since it seems to ...
... gives the Spectator many opportunities for criticizing the tra- ditions of morality and breeding surviving from the 1 Courthope , p . 174 , describes these words as " a very mis- leading account of the matter , " since it seems to ...
Сторінка xvi
... give to The Spectator the tone which runs through it from first to last . They prescribe the area over which discussion shall range . Rigorously excepting everything of a party nature , Addison addresses himself to humanity as a whole ...
... give to The Spectator the tone which runs through it from first to last . They prescribe the area over which discussion shall range . Rigorously excepting everything of a party nature , Addison addresses himself to humanity as a whole ...
Сторінка xix
... give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison . " He must do so , however , with a contented foreknowledge that as easily may he imprison the viewless winds " as catch the airy grace with which Mr. Spectator bears himself along . I ...
... give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison . " He must do so , however , with a contented foreknowledge that as easily may he imprison the viewless winds " as catch the airy grace with which Mr. Spectator bears himself along . I ...
Сторінка 1
... give some account in them of the several persons that are engaged in this work . As the chief trouble of compiling , digesting , and correcting will fall to my share , I must do myself the justice to open the work with my own history ...
... give some account in them of the several persons that are engaged in this work . As the chief trouble of compiling , digesting , and correcting will fall to my share , I must do myself the justice to open the work with my own history ...
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... give a more particular account . There is no place of general resort wherein I do not often make my appearance ; sometimes I am seen thrusting my head into a round of politicians at Will's , and listening with great attention to the ...
... give a more particular account . There is no place of general resort wherein I do not often make my appearance ; sometimes I am seen thrusting my head into a round of politicians at Will's , and listening with great attention to the ...
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Сторінка 76 - Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which added to those that were entire made up the number about an hundred.
Сторінка 74 - I was thus musing, I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me, where I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a little musical instrument in his hand.
Сторінка 21 - ... 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 76 - As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge into the great tide that flowed underneath it; and upon. further examination, perceived there were innumerable trapdoors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon, but they fell through them into the tide, and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many...
Сторінка 125 - At my nativity my ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius ; I 20 was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet in me.
Сторінка 132 - 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 53 - I am the more at ease in Sir Roger's family, because it consists of sober and staid persons ; for as the knight is the best master in the world, he seldom changes his servants ; and as he is beloved by all about him, his servants never care for leaving him : by this means his domestics are all in years, and grown old with their master. You would take his valet...
Сторінка 21 - 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 75 - I drew near with that Reverence which is due to a superior Nature \ and as my Heart was entirely subdued by the captivating Strains I had heard, I fell down at his Feet and wept The Genius smiled upon me with a Look of Compassion and Affability that familiarized him to my Imagination, and at once dispelled all the Fears and Apprehensions with which I approached him.
Сторінка 7 - London; a person of indefatigable industry, strong reason, and great experience. His notions of trade are noble and generous, and (as every rich man has usually some sly way of jesting, which would make no great figure were he not a rich man) he calls the sea the British Common.