The British Essayists: SpectatorJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... acrostic , by which means some of the most ar- rant undisputed blackheads about the town began to entertain ambitious thoughts , and to set up for polite authors . I shall therefore describe at length those many arts of false wit , in ...
... acrostic , by which means some of the most ar- rant undisputed blackheads about the town began to entertain ambitious thoughts , and to set up for polite authors . I shall therefore describe at length those many arts of false wit , in ...
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... acrostic land ; There may'st thou wings display , and altars raise , And torture one poor word a thousand ways . ' This fashion of false wit was revived by several poets of the last age , and in particular may be met with among Mr ...
... acrostic land ; There may'st thou wings display , and altars raise , And torture one poor word a thousand ways . ' This fashion of false wit was revived by several poets of the last age , and in particular may be met with among Mr ...
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... acrostics , when the prin- cipal letters stand two or three deep . I have seen some of them where the verses have not only been edged by a name at each extremity , but have had the same name running down like a seam through the middle ...
... acrostics , when the prin- cipal letters stand two or three deep . I have seen some of them where the verses have not only been edged by a name at each extremity , but have had the same name running down like a seam through the middle ...
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... acrostics handed about the town with great secrecy and applause ; to which I must also add a little epi- gram called ... acrostics and whig ana- grams , and do not quarrel with either of them , be- cause they are whigs or tories , but ...
... acrostics handed about the town with great secrecy and applause ; to which I must also add a little epi- gram called ... acrostics and whig ana- grams , and do not quarrel with either of them , be- cause they are whigs or tories , but ...
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... acrostics : sometimes of syllables , as in echoes and doggerel rhymes : some- times of words , as in puns and quibbles ; and sometimes of whole sentences or poems , cast into the figures of eggs , axes , or altars ; nay , some carry the ...
... acrostics : sometimes of syllables , as in echoes and doggerel rhymes : some- times of words , as in puns and quibbles ; and sometimes of whole sentences or poems , cast into the figures of eggs , axes , or altars ; nay , some carry the ...
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acquaint acrostics Addison admiration agreeable anagrams ancient appear audience beauty behaviour Ben Jonson called character club coffee-house consider conversation delight discourse dress DRYDEN endeavour English entertainment Ephesian Matron eyes favour genius gentleman George Etheridge give hand heard heart hero honour Hudibras humble servant humour Italian kind King lady laugh letter likewise lion live look Lord lover mankind manner March 15 means mind nature neral never night observed occasion opera OVID paper particular passion person Pharamond Pict piece play pleased pleasure poem poet present prince reader reason ROSCOMMON says scenes sense shew Siege of Damascus Sir Roger speak Spectator stage talk taste Tatler tell thing THOMAS PARNELL thou thought tion told town tragedy Tryphiodorus verses VIRG Virgil virtue whig whole woman women words writing young
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Página 199 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Página 57 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep...
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 281 - 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...
Página 281 - ... 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 5 - But being ill-used by the above-mentioned widow, he was very serious for a year and a half; and though, his temper being naturally jovial, he at last got over it, he grew careless of himself, and never dressed afterwards. He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that was 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 6 - ... town and country ; a great lover of mankind ; but there is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour, that he is rather beloved than esteemed. 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 198 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Página 317 - Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to "him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
Página 2 - Thus I live in the world rather as a 'Spectator' of mankind than as one of the species...