The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Volumen1J. Crissy, 1824 |
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... letters in the name CLIO . EUSTACE BUDGELL . As a writer in the Spectator , Budgell may be ranked next to Addison and Steele . He was the son of Dr. Gilbert Budgell , a clergyman ; and was * See No. 410 . born about the year 1685. He ...
... letters in the name CLIO . EUSTACE BUDGELL . As a writer in the Spectator , Budgell may be ranked next to Addison and Steele . He was the son of Dr. Gilbert Budgell , a clergyman ; and was * See No. 410 . born about the year 1685. He ...
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... letter X , amounting to twenty - eight in number ; and the eighth volume was written chiefly by Budgell and Addison . He wrote many excellent papers in the Guardian , which are marked with an asterisk ; besides seve- ral papers in the ...
... letter X , amounting to twenty - eight in number ; and the eighth volume was written chiefly by Budgell and Addison . He wrote many excellent papers in the Guardian , which are marked with an asterisk ; besides seve- ral papers in the ...
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... letter . Besides these , he composed the letter in No. 231. where the younger sister mentioned in Almahide was Mrs. Barbur , and No. 237. He also wrote the last letter in No. 252 , 302 , 306. and the letter in No. 311 , Nos . 375 , 525 ...
... letter . Besides these , he composed the letter in No. 231. where the younger sister mentioned in Almahide was Mrs. Barbur , and No. 237. He also wrote the last letter in No. 252 , 302 , 306. and the letter in No. 311 , Nos . 375 , 525 ...
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... Letters to Dr. Clarke on the publication of his celebrated Dis- course on the Being and Attributes of God , which were treated with much respect by that illustri- ous divine . His paper , No. 635. in the Spectator , was re - published ...
... Letters to Dr. Clarke on the publication of his celebrated Dis- course on the Being and Attributes of God , which were treated with much respect by that illustri- ous divine . His paper , No. 635. in the Spectator , was re - published ...
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... letter signed F. J. in No. 520 , is said to have been the production of Mr. Francham of Norwich . The last letter , and the verses in No. 527 , are by Pope : and the pastoral ballad in No. 603 , was written by Mr. Byrom , a native of ...
... letter signed F. J. in No. 520 , is said to have been the production of Mr. Francham of Norwich . The last letter , and the verses in No. 527 , are by Pope : and the pastoral ballad in No. 603 , was written by Mr. Byrom , a native of ...
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Página 30 - ... a gentleman of Worcestershire, of ancient descent, a baronet, his name Sir Roger de Coverley. His great grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance which is called after him. All who know that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger. 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.
Página 28 - In short, wherever I see a cluster of people I always mix with them, though I never open my lips but in my own club. Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind than as one of the species...
Página 31 - 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. When he comes into a house he calls the servants by their names, and talks all the way upstairs to a visit.
Página 28 - I am very well versed in the theory of a husband, or a father, and can discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them; as standers-by discover blots which are apt to escape those who are in the game.
Página 217 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
Página 73 - I have often thought there has not been sufficient pains taken in finding out proper employments and diversions for the fair ones. Their amusements seem contrived for them, rather as they are women than as they are reasonable creatures ; and are more adapted to the sex than to the species.
Página 36 - ... been in the female world: as other men of his age will take notice to you what such a minister said upon such and such an occasion, he will tell you, when the Duke of Monmouth danced at court, such a woman was then smitten, another was taken with him at the head of his troop in the Park. In...
Página 27 - Cocoa-tree, and in the theatres both of Drury Lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stock-jobbers at Jonathan's.
Página 144 - Some of them were covered with such extravagant epitaphs, that if it were possible for the dead person to be acquainted with them, he would blush at the praises which his friends have bestowed upon him. There are others so excessively modest, that they deliver the character of the person departed in Greek or Hebrew, and by that means are not understood once in a twelvemonth. In the poetical quarter, I found there were poets who had no monuments, and monuments which had no poets.
Página 30 - However, this humour creates him no enemies, for he does nothing with sourness or obstinacy; and his being unconfined to modes and forms makes him but the readier and more capable to please and oblige all who know him.