Selections from the SpectatorMacmillan and Company, 1892 - 220 стор. |
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... sometimes I am seen thrusting my head into a round of politicians at Will's , and listening with great attention to the narratives that are made in those little circular audiences . Sometimes I smoke a pipe at Child's and , while I seem ...
... sometimes I am seen thrusting my head into a round of politicians at Will's , and listening with great attention to the narratives that are made in those little circular audiences . Sometimes I smoke a pipe at Child's and , while I seem ...
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... sometimes you see him putting on grave looks and a solemn habit , sometimes airy in his behaviour and fantastic in his dress : insomuch that at different times he appears as serious as a judge , and as jocular as a merry - andrew . But ...
... sometimes you see him putting on grave looks and a solemn habit , sometimes airy in his behaviour and fantastic in his dress : insomuch that at different times he appears as serious as a judge , and as jocular as a merry - andrew . But ...
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... sometimes rise in very 20 odd figures . I have observed that those little blemishes wear off very soon , but when they disappear in one part of the face they are very apt to break out in another , insomuch that I have seen a spot upon ...
... sometimes rise in very 20 odd figures . I have observed that those little blemishes wear off very soon , but when they disappear in one part of the face they are very apt to break out in another , insomuch that I have seen a spot upon ...
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... sometimes I am jostled among a body of Armenians ; sometimes I am lost in a crowd of Jews ; and sometimes make one in a group 10 of Dutchmen . I am a Dane , Swede , or Frenchman at different times ; or rather fancy myself like the old ...
... sometimes I am jostled among a body of Armenians ; sometimes I am lost in a crowd of Jews ; and sometimes make one in a group 10 of Dutchmen . I am a Dane , Swede , or Frenchman at different times ; or rather fancy myself like the old ...
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... sometimes they speak in raptures of a run of ale in King Charles's reign ; and sometimes reflect with astonish- 20 ment upon games at whisk which have been miraculously recovered by members of the society , when in all human probability ...
... sometimes they speak in raptures of a run of ale in King Charles's reign ; and sometimes reflect with astonish- 20 ment upon games at whisk which have been miraculously recovered by members of the society , when in all human probability ...
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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.