Spectator (The)Isaac, Tuckey & Company, 1836 - 714 páginas |
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... late to Dinner of various Beauties of Vocifer and Ignotus Charity - schools Cheerfulness preferable to Mirth Childish Impertinence . Church Music recommended Cibber's Heroic Daughter Claim of Cambridge to the Origin of the Ugly Club ...
... late to Dinner of various Beauties of Vocifer and Ignotus Charity - schools Cheerfulness preferable to Mirth Childish Impertinence . Church Music recommended Cibber's Heroic Daughter Claim of Cambridge to the Origin of the Ugly Club ...
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... late and present reign , has been indebted to your counsels and wisdom . But to enumerate the great advantages which the public has received from your administration , would be a more proper work for a history , than for an ad- dress of ...
... late and present reign , has been indebted to your counsels and wisdom . But to enumerate the great advantages which the public has received from your administration , would be a more proper work for a history , than for an ad- dress of ...
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... late discourse concerning the statutes of the little more of Mr. Spectator's philosophy would take Ugly Club , having been so well received at Oxford , off all this . In the mean time let them observe , that , contrary to the strict ...
... late discourse concerning the statutes of the little more of Mr. Spectator's philosophy would take Ugly Club , having been so well received at Oxford , off all this . In the mean time let them observe , that , contrary to the strict ...
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... late papers , of making an alliance be- tween all the bulls , bears , elephants , and lions which are separately exposed to public view in the cities of London and Westminster ; together with the other wonders , shows , and monsters ...
... late papers , of making an alliance be- tween all the bulls , bears , elephants , and lions which are separately exposed to public view in the cities of London and Westminster ; together with the other wonders , shows , and monsters ...
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... LATE conversation which I fell into , gave me an opportunity of observing a great deal of beauty in a very handsome woman , and as much wit in an ingenious man , turned into deformity in the one , and absurdity in the other , by the ...
... LATE conversation which I fell into , gave me an opportunity of observing a great deal of beauty in a very handsome woman , and as much wit in an ingenious man , turned into deformity in the one , and absurdity in the other , by the ...
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acquaintance acrostics action admiration Æneid agreeable Alcibiades appear Aristotle beauty behaviour Bouts-Rimés character club consider conversation creature desire discourse dress endeavour entertainment eyes fair sex father favour fortune genius gentleman give greatest hand happy head heard heart Homer honour hope Hudibras human humble servant humour Iliad imagination innocent kind lady learned letter live look lover mankind manner marriage master means ment mind mistress nature nerally never obliged observe occasion OVID paper Paradise Lost particular pass passion person Pharamond Pict Plato pleased pleasure poem poet present proper racters reader reason renegado Sappho sense Sir Roger Socrates soul speak SPECTATOR spirit talk tell temper Theodosius thing thou thought tion told town tural turn VIRG Virgil virtue whig whole woman women words write young
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Página 287 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 203 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Página 129 - Psalms half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it ; sometimes, when he is pleased with the matter of his devotion, he pronounces "amen...
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 345 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Página 6 - He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that were in fashion at the time of his repulse, which, in his merry humours, he tells us, has been in and out twelve times since he first wore it.
Página 181 - Does life appear miserable, that gives thee opportunities of earning such a reward ? Is death to be feared, that will convey thee to so happy an existence ? Think not man was made in vain, who has such an Eternity reserved for him.
Página 181 - 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?
Página 7 - He is very ready at that sort of discourse with which men usually entertain women. He has all his life dressed very well, and remembers habits as others do men. He can smile when one speaks to him, and laughs easily.
Página 6 - He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world only as he thinks the world is in the wrong.