The Spectator, with Illustrative Notes: To which are Prefixed, the Lives of Authors : Comprehending, Addison, Steele, Parnell, Hughes, Buegel, Eusden, Tickell, and Pope : with Critical Remarks about Their Writings, Band 3H.D. Symonds, T. Hurst, J. Walker, J. Scatcherd, A. and J. Black and H. Parry, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, E. Lloyd, Otridge and Son, J Cuthell, Jordan Hookham, W. Miller, S. Bagster, R. Ryan, and R.H. Westley, 1794 |
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... told me that he was a young gentleman of a considerable estate , who had been educated by a tender mother that lived not many miles from the place where we were . She She is a very good lady , says my friend NO . 123 . 9 THE SPECTATOR .
... told me that he was a young gentleman of a considerable estate , who had been educated by a tender mother that lived not many miles from the place where we were . She She is a very good lady , says my friend NO . 123 . 9 THE SPECTATOR .
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... lady , says my friend , but took so much care of her son's health that she has made him good for nothing . She quickly found that reading was bad for his eyes , and that writing made his head ake . He was let loose among the woods as ...
... lady , says my friend , but took so much care of her son's health that she has made him good for nothing . She quickly found that reading was bad for his eyes , and that writing made his head ake . He was let loose among the woods as ...
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... lady dressed in one of these petticoats , I could not forbear blaming her in my own thoughts for walking abroad when she was so near ber time , but soon recovered myself out of my error , when I found all the modish part of the sex as ...
... lady dressed in one of these petticoats , I could not forbear blaming her in my own thoughts for walking abroad when she was so near ber time , but soon recovered myself out of my error , when I found all the modish part of the sex as ...
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... lady , who do not live many miles from Sir ROGER . The wife is an old coquette , that is always hankering after the di- versions of the town ; the husband a morose rustic , that frowns and frets at the name of it . The wife is over ...
... lady , who do not live many miles from Sir ROGER . The wife is an old coquette , that is always hankering after the di- versions of the town ; the husband a morose rustic , that frowns and frets at the name of it . The wife is over ...
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... lady , who was at least ten years behind hand in her dress , but at the same time as fine as hands could make her . She was flounced and furbelowed from head to foot ; every ribbon was wrinkled , and every part of her garments in curl ...
... lady , who was at least ten years behind hand in her dress , but at the same time as fine as hands could make her . She was flounced and furbelowed from head to foot ; every ribbon was wrinkled , and every part of her garments in curl ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquaintance admired agreeable ALCIBIADES appear Astrop beauty behaviour believe Castilian character CONSTANTIA conversation creature daugh death delight discourse dress endeavour entertain EUDOXUS EUSTACE BUDGELL eyes father favour following letter fortune genius gentleman give greatest happy heart HEROD honour hope human humble servant humour husband impertinent innocent J. S. JORDAN kind lady learning live look lover man's mankind manner MARIAMNE marriage master ment mind mirth nature neral never obliged observe occasion ordinary OVID pain paper particular pass passion person PINDAR pleased pleasure pray present reader reason religion renegado Salamander sense shew Sir ROGER SOCRATES soul species SPECTATOR spirit tell temper THEODOSIUS thing THOMAS PARNELL THOMAS TICKELL thou thought tion told TOM SHORT town VIRG virtue Whig whole woman women words write young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 168 - I, man was made in vain! How is he given away to misery and mortality! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death! The Genius, being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect; Look no more...
Seite 169 - 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.
Seite 167 - ... 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 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.
Seite 165 - I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, ' Surely,' said I, ' man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Seite 168 - Look no more, said he, 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.
Seite 167 - ... hundred. As I was counting the arches, the genius told me that this bridge consisted at first of a thousand arches ; but that a great flood swept away the rest, and left the bridge in the ruinous condition I now beheld it ; but tell me farther, said he, what thou discoverest on it. I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it.
Seite 257 - 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 166 - The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale of misery, and the tide of water that thou seest is part of the great tide of eternity.
Seite 184 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand, A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing...
Seite 184 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.