The Spectator [by J. Addison and others].1857 |
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... nerally applauded by ignorant readers . If the thought of the couplet in such compositions is good , the rhyme adds little to it ; and if bad , it will not be in the power of the rhyme to recommend it . I am afraid that great numbers of ...
... nerally applauded by ignorant readers . If the thought of the couplet in such compositions is good , the rhyme adds little to it ; and if bad , it will not be in the power of the rhyme to recommend it . I am afraid that great numbers of ...
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... nerally , though not always , consists in such a resem- their sets of admirers , that our posterity will in a blance and congruity of ideas as this author mentions . few years degenerate into a race of punsters : at I shall only add to ...
... nerally , though not always , consists in such a resem- their sets of admirers , that our posterity will in a blance and congruity of ideas as this author mentions . few years degenerate into a race of punsters : at I shall only add to ...
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... nerally as good success with their common mistress ; tion a third , and perhaps reason contrary to all , a as nothing is more usual than for a nimble - footed man is likely to pass his time but ill who has so wench to get a husband at ...
... nerally as good success with their common mistress ; tion a third , and perhaps reason contrary to all , a as nothing is more usual than for a nimble - footed man is likely to pass his time but ill who has so wench to get a husband at ...
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... nerally read by our sex , or else order them to breathe their saucy footmen ( who are good for no- thing else ) by sending them to tell all their ac- " Without raillery , I desire you to insert this word for word in your next , as you ...
... nerally read by our sex , or else order them to breathe their saucy footmen ( who are good for no- thing else ) by sending them to tell all their ac- " Without raillery , I desire you to insert this word for word in your next , as you ...
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... nerally in the train of a knight - errant , making a present to two lovers of a couple of these alote mentioned needles , the reader would not have been a little pleased to have seen them correspondreg with one another when they were ...
... nerally in the train of a knight - errant , making a present to two lovers of a couple of these alote mentioned needles , the reader would not have been a little pleased to have seen them correspondreg with one another when they were ...
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acquaintance action Addison admiration agreeable appear Aristotle beauty behaviour character consider conversation creature desire discourse dress endeavour entertainment Eustace Budgell eyes fair sex father favour fortune genius gentleman give greatest happy head heart honour hope Hudibras human humble servant humour Iliad innocent John Byrom John Hughes kind lady learned letter live look lover mankind manner marriage master means ment mind mistress nature nerally never obliged observed occasion OVID paper Paradise Lost particular pass passion person Pharamond Pict pleased pleasure poem poet present proper racter reader reason received Sappho sense Sir Roger Socrates soul speak SPECTATOR spirit Steele tell temper Theodosius thing thou thought tion told town turally turn verses VIRG Virgil virtue Whigs whole woman women words writing young
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Seite 177 - 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 farther 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...
Seite 199 - If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me: What then shall I do when God riseth up ? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him ? Did not he that made me in the womb, make him ? and did not one fashion us in the womb...
Seite 177 - ... on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it. I directed my sight as I was ordered, and (whether or no the good genius strengthened it with any supernatural force, or dissipated part of the mist that was before too thick for the eye to penetrate) I saw the valley opening at the...
Seite 177 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them; every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Are not these, O Mirza, habitations worth contending for?
Seite 1 - 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 narratives that are made in those little circular audiences.
Seite 199 - Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me ; when his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Seite 177 - I saw the valley opening at the farther end, and spreading forth into an immense ocean, that had a huge rock of adamant running through the midst of it, and dividing it into two equal parts. The clouds still rested on one half of it, insomuch that I could discover nothing in it: but the other appeared to me a vast ocean...
Seite 125 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself ; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees any body else nodding, either wakes them himself or sends his servants to them.
Seite 29 - ... that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was born upon one day, and died upon another : the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances, that are common to all mankind.
Seite 119 - My worthy friend has put me under the particular care of his butler, who is a very prudent man, and, as well as the rest of his fellow-servants, wonderfully desirous of pleasing me, because they have often heard their master talk of me as of his particular friend.