The Spectator, Volumen1Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 |
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... concern , in any rational society . At Sir ROGER we never laugh , though we generally smile ; but it is a smile , always of affection , and frequently of es- teem . 66 Secondly , I cannot admit that there is in this character any thing ...
... concern , in any rational society . At Sir ROGER we never laugh , though we generally smile ; but it is a smile , always of affection , and frequently of es- teem . 66 Secondly , I cannot admit that there is in this character any thing ...
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... concern for the living , but sent for a youth nearly related , " ( the EARL of WARWICK , who did not live long after this affecting interview , ) " and finely accom- plished , yet not above being the better for good impressions from a ...
... concern for the living , but sent for a youth nearly related , " ( the EARL of WARWICK , who did not live long after this affecting interview , ) " and finely accom- plished , yet not above being the better for good impressions from a ...
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... concerns , he was obliged to drop the undertaking . volumes of this work are now before me . It exhibits little more than the ruins of a mind . He was attacked on all sides by contemporary writers respecting the affair of Tindall's will ...
... concerns , he was obliged to drop the undertaking . volumes of this work are now before me . It exhibits little more than the ruins of a mind . He was attacked on all sides by contemporary writers respecting the affair of Tindall's will ...
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... concern in a paper called " The BRITISH MERCHANT , or Commerce Preserved , " in answer to " The MER- CATOR , or Commerce Retrieved , " written by DE- FOE , in 179 numbers , from May 26 , 1713 , to July 20 , 1714 , with a view to get the ...
... concern in a paper called " The BRITISH MERCHANT , or Commerce Preserved , " in answer to " The MER- CATOR , or Commerce Retrieved , " written by DE- FOE , in 179 numbers , from May 26 , 1713 , to July 20 , 1714 , with a view to get the ...
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... of Scotland . Upon what authority the * Biog . Dict . and Dram . † Spect . 8vo . vol . vii . p . 284 , note . joint concern of these gentlemen in this paper is asserted 60 HISTORICAL AND Wit of the Monkish Ages-in Modern Times.
... of Scotland . Upon what authority the * Biog . Dict . and Dram . † Spect . 8vo . vol . vii . p . 284 , note . joint concern of these gentlemen in this paper is asserted 60 HISTORICAL AND Wit of the Monkish Ages-in Modern Times.
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Términos y frases comunes
acquaint acrostic ADDISON admiration agreeable anagram appear APRIL 26 Aristotle audience beauty behaviour BUDGELL called character club coffee-house conversation discourse dress endeavour English entertainment Ephesian Matron EUSTACE BUDGELL eyes favour frequently genius gentleman give heart hero honour Hudibras humble servant humour Italian kind King lady laugh learned letter lion live look LORD lover mankind manner March 15 means ment merit mind nature never night observed occasion opera OVID paper particular passion person Pict play poem poet Porus present racter reader reason rhymes ridicule ROGER DE COVERLEY ROSCOMMON says scenes sense shew sion Sir ROGER speak SPECTATOR stage STEELE style talk taste TATLER tell thing THOMAS PARNELL thors thought tion told tragedy verse VIRG virtue whig whole woman word writers young
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Página 94 - 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 314 - 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 96 - 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 297 - 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 92 - 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 92 - I never espoused any party with violence, and am resolved to observe an exact neutrality between the Whigs and Tories, unless I shall be forced to declare myself by the hostilities of either side. In short, I have acted in all the parts of my life as a looker-on, which is the character I intend to preserve in this paper.
Página 24 - As a teacher of wisdom, he may be confidently followed. His religion has nothing in it enthusiastic or superstitious: he appears neither weakly credulous, nor wantonly sceptical; his morality is neither dangerously lax, nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument, are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being.
Página 100 - 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.
Página 210 - I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey ; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable.
Página 310 - I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly...