The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...Bosworth, 1853 |
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... kind and generous Parnell , the virtuous and metrical Byrom , the good and amiable Pearce , the brave and pompous Philips , the laurelled but unpoetical Eusden , the economical and equable Martyn , the literary and mercantile Motteux ...
... kind and generous Parnell , the virtuous and metrical Byrom , the good and amiable Pearce , the brave and pompous Philips , the laurelled but unpoetical Eusden , the economical and equable Martyn , the literary and mercantile Motteux ...
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... kind of violence to one who is as solicitous to shun applause , as he is as- siduous to deserve it . But , my Lord , this is perhaps the only particular in which your prudence will be always disappointed . While justice , candour ...
... kind of violence to one who is as solicitous to shun applause , as he is as- siduous to deserve it . But , my Lord , this is perhaps the only particular in which your prudence will be always disappointed . While justice , candour ...
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... kind glance , or a blow of a fan , from some celebrated beauty , mother of the present Lord Such - a - one . If you speak of a young commoner that said a lively thing in the house , he starts up , " He has good blood in his veins , Tom ...
... kind glance , or a blow of a fan , from some celebrated beauty , mother of the present Lord Such - a - one . If you speak of a young commoner that said a lively thing in the house , he starts up , " He has good blood in his veins , Tom ...
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... kind of methodical dream , which disposed all my contemplations into a vision or allegory , or what else the reader shall please to call it . Methought I returned to the great hall , where I had been the morning before , but to my ...
... kind of methodical dream , which disposed all my contemplations into a vision or allegory , or what else the reader shall please to call it . Methought I returned to the great hall , where I had been the morning before , but to my ...
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... kind . For this reason , SIR ROGER was saying last night , that he was of opinion none but men of fine parts deserve to be hanged . The reflections of such men are so delicate upon all occurrences which they are concerned in , that they ...
... kind . For this reason , SIR ROGER was saying last night , that he was of opinion none but men of fine parts deserve to be hanged . The reflections of such men are so delicate upon all occurrences which they are concerned in , that they ...
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Página 1 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Página 370 - 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-lap'd like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly : Judge, when you hear.
Página 340 - HAVING often received an invitation from my friend Sir Roger de Coverley, to pass away a month with him in the country, I last week accompanied him thither, and am settled with him for some time at his countryhouse, where I intend to form several of my ensuing speculations. Sir Roger, who is very well acquainted with my humour, lets me rise and go to bed when I please, dine at his own table or in my chamber as I think fit, sit still and say nothing without bidding me be merry. When the gentlemen...
Página 356 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.
Página 197 - For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being mis-led by similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another.
Página 356 - But a man can never have taken in his full measure of knowledge, has not time to subdue his passions, establish his soul in virtue, and come up to the perfection of his nature, before he is hurried off the stage.
Página 225 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet: and yet it is sung by some blind crowder with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?
Página 6 - His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
Página 293 - With what all Earth or Heaven could bestow To make her amiable...
Página 359 - ... the death of the present incumbent, who is very old, to bestow it according to merit. The fair understanding between Sir Roger and his chaplain, and their mutual concurrence in doing good, is the more remarkable because the very next village is famous for the differences and contentions that rise between the parson and the "squire, who live in a perpetual state of war. The parson is always preaching at the 'squire; and the 'squire, to be revenged on the parson, never comes to church.