The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]: with sketches of the lives of the authors, and explantory notes1816 |
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... thing in a box before us , he said , I am quite of another opinion . She has , I will allow , a very pleasing aspect , but , methinks , that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent . ' When I observed her a second ...
... thing in a box before us , he said , I am quite of another opinion . She has , I will allow , a very pleasing aspect , but , methinks , that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent . ' When I observed her a second ...
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... things themselves . If one would represent a wide champaign country filled with herds and flocks , it would be ridiculous to draw the coun- try only upon the scenes , and to crowd several parts of the stage with sheep and oxen . This is ...
... things themselves . If one would represent a wide champaign country filled with herds and flocks , it would be ridiculous to draw the coun- try only upon the scenes , and to crowd several parts of the stage with sheep and oxen . This is ...
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... things the most inexcusable . Reason should govern passion , but instead of that , you see , it is often subservient to ... thing , passion and humour another . To follow the dictates of the two latter , is going into a road that is both ...
... things the most inexcusable . Reason should govern passion , but instead of that , you see , it is often subservient to ... thing , passion and humour another . To follow the dictates of the two latter , is going into a road that is both ...
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... thing so just , as that mode and gallantry should be built upon exerting ourselves in what is proper and agreeable to the institutions of jus- tice and of piety among us ? And yet is there any thing more common , than that we run in ...
... thing so just , as that mode and gallantry should be built upon exerting ourselves in what is proper and agreeable to the institutions of jus- tice and of piety among us ? And yet is there any thing more common , than that we run in ...
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... thing that can befal me . I would not anticipate the relish of any happiness , nor feel the weight of any misery , before it actually arrives . I know but one way of fortifying my soul against these gloomy presages and terrors of mind ...
... thing that can befal me . I would not anticipate the relish of any happiness , nor feel the weight of any misery , before it actually arrives . I know but one way of fortifying my soul against these gloomy presages and terrors of mind ...
Términos y frases comunes
acquaint acrostics ADDISON admiration Æneid agreeable anagrams appear APRIL 13 April 26 Aristotle audience beautiful behaviour Ben Johnson called character Cicero club coffee-house conversation discourse dress DRYDEN endeavour English entertainment eyes false favour genius gentleman give hand heard heart hero honour Hudibras humble servant humour Italian JOHN HENLEY kind king lady laugh learned letter likewise lion live look Lord lover mankind manner March 15 means mind nature never night observed occasion opera OVID paper particular passion person Pharamond Pict piece play pleased pleasure poem poet portunity Porus present prince reader reason ROSCOMMON scene sense shew speak Spectator stage STEELE talk taste Tatler tell thing thou thought tion told town tragedy turn verses VIRG Virgil virtue Whigs whole woman women words writing young
Pasajes populares
Página 48 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold, Both day and night. How often, from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to others...
Página 38 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven, to inhabit among Men; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and in CoffeeHouses.
Página 235 - 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 misled by similitude and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Página 5 - THE first of our society is a gentleman of Worcestershire, of an 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...
Página 266 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Página 267 - ... and dreadful scene of death, occasioned by the mutual feuds which reigned in the families of an English and Scotch nobleman : that he designed this for the instruction of his poem, we may learn from his four last lines, in which, after the example of the modern tragedians, he draws from it a precept for the benefit of his readers. God save the King, and bless the land In plenty, joy, and peace ; And grant henceforth that foul debate 'Twixt noblemen may cease.
Página 165 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisits 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 180 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Página 10 - To conclude his character, where women are not concerned, he is an honest worthy man. I cannot tell whether I am to account him whom I am next to speak of as one of our company, for he visits us but seldom ; but when he does, it adds to every man else a new enjoyment of himself. He is a clergyman, a very philosophic man, of general learning, great sanctity of life, and the most exact good breeding.
Página 165 - 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!