The Spectator ...Angier March, 1803 |
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... particular pleasure in the reading of them . I can affirm the same of Mr. Dry- den , and know several of the most refined writers of our present age who are of the same humour . I might likewise refer my reader to Moliere's thoughts on ...
... particular pleasure in the reading of them . I can affirm the same of Mr. Dry- den , and know several of the most refined writers of our present age who are of the same humour . I might likewise refer my reader to Moliere's thoughts on ...
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... particular per- sons , before we have heard them speak a single word , or so much as know who they are . Every passion gives a particular cast to the coun- tenance , and is apt to discover itself in some feature or other . I have seen ...
... particular per- sons , before we have heard them speak a single word , or so much as know who they are . Every passion gives a particular cast to the coun- tenance , and is apt to discover itself in some feature or other . I have seen ...
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... particular vices which the physiog- nomist had discovered in his countenance ; but that he had conquered the strong dispositions he was born with , by the dictates of philosophy 3 . We are indeed told by an ancient author , that ...
... particular vices which the physiog- nomist had discovered in his countenance ; but that he had conquered the strong dispositions he was born with , by the dictates of philosophy 3 . We are indeed told by an ancient author , that ...
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... particular in nothing but the make of my face , which has the misfortune to be exactly oval . This I take to proceed from a temper that naturally inclines me both to speak and hear . ‹ With this account you may wonder how I can have the ...
... particular in nothing but the make of my face , which has the misfortune to be exactly oval . This I take to proceed from a temper that naturally inclines me both to speak and hear . ‹ With this account you may wonder how I can have the ...
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... particular , goods are not entered as they ought to be at the custom- house , nor law - reports perused at the Temple , by reason of one beauty who detains the young mer- chants too long near ' Change , and another fair one who keeps ...
... particular , goods are not entered as they ought to be at the custom- house , nor law - reports perused at the Temple , by reason of one beauty who detains the young mer- chants too long near ' Change , and another fair one who keeps ...
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Сторінка 144 - ... subjects, hear their duties explained to them, and join together in adoration of the Supreme Being. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week, not only as it refreshes in their minds the notions of religion, but as it puts both the sexes upon appearing in their most agreeable forms, and exerting all such qualities as are apt to give them a figure in the eye of the village.
Сторінка 368 - Examine now, said he, this sea that is bounded with darkness at both ends, and tell me what thou discoverest in it. I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide.
Сторінка 369 - ... them into the tide and immediately disappeared. These hidden pitfalls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Сторінка 367 - I had ever heard : they put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.
Сторінка 119 - Roger, and has lived at his house in the nature of a chaplain above thirty years. This gentleman is a person of good sense and some learning, of a very regular life and obliging conversation: he heartily loves Sir Roger, and knows that he is very much in the old knight's esteem, so that he lives in the family rather as a relation than a dependant.
Сторінка 371 - I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats ; but the genius told me there was no passage to them except through the gates...
Сторінка 164 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Сторінка 366 - I was at Grand Cairo I picked up several oriental manuscripts, which I have still by me. Among others I met with one entitled, " The Visions of Mirzah," which I have read over with great pleasure.
Сторінка 193 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself, seconded by the applauses of the public.
Сторінка 127 - ... of his game. He hunts a pack of dogs better than any man in the country, and is very famous for finding out a hare. He is extremely well versed in all the little handicrafts of an idle man. He makes a May-fly to a miracle ; and furnishes the whole country with angle-rods.