Selections from the SpectatorMacmillan and Company, 1892 - 220 стор. |
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... Woman on Horseback , 117 XXXII . Proceedings of the Infirmary for Ill - Humoured People , 120 XXXIII . Essay on Dreams , 124 XXXIV . Will . Honeycomb's Proposal for a Fair for Marriage , 128 XXXV . Death of Sir Roger , 131 XXXVI ...
... Woman on Horseback , 117 XXXII . Proceedings of the Infirmary for Ill - Humoured People , 120 XXXIII . Essay on Dreams , 124 XXXIV . Will . Honeycomb's Proposal for a Fair for Marriage , 128 XXXV . Death of Sir Roger , 131 XXXVI ...
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... woman was then smitten , another was taken with him at the head of his troop in the Park . In all these important relations , he has ever about the same time received a kind glance , or a blow of a fan , from some celebrated beauty ...
... woman was then smitten , another was taken with him at the head of his troop in the Park . In all these important relations , he has ever about the same time received a kind glance , or a blow of a fan , from some celebrated beauty ...
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... once in a mixed assembly , that was full of noise and mirth , when on a sudden an old woman unluckily observed there were thirteen of us in company . This remark struck a panic terror into several who were present , 16 THE SPECTATOR .
... once in a mixed assembly , that was full of noise and mirth , when on a sudden an old woman unluckily observed there were thirteen of us in company . This remark struck a panic terror into several who were present , 16 THE SPECTATOR .
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... woman of quality is often the product of a hundred climates . The muff and the fan come together 10 from the different ends of the earth . The scarf is sent from the torrid zone , and the tippet from beneath the pole . The brocade ...
... woman of quality is often the product of a hundred climates . The muff and the fan come together 10 from the different ends of the earth . The scarf is sent from the torrid zone , and the tippet from beneath the pole . The brocade ...
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... woman in the nature of a vestal , whose business it is to cherish and perpetuate the fire which burns from generation to generation , and has seen the glass - house fires in and out above an hundred times . The Everlasting Club treats ...
... woman in the nature of a vestal , whose business it is to cherish and perpetuate the fire which burns from generation to generation , and has seen the glass - house fires in and out above an hundred times . The Everlasting Club treats ...
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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.