The Spectator, Volumen1Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 |
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... talks of leaving his children " strong bodies and healthy constitutions . " All this is consistent , if we consider his letter in No. 530 , as a satire on old rakes , who neglect to enlist in social life un- til they are past service ...
... talks of leaving his children " strong bodies and healthy constitutions . " All this is consistent , if we consider his letter in No. 530 , as a satire on old rakes , who neglect to enlist in social life un- til they are past service ...
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... talking of your virtues , though posterity alone will do them justice . Other men pass through oppositions and con- tending interests in the ways of ambition ; but your great abilities have been invited to power , and importuned to ...
... talking of your virtues , though posterity alone will do them justice . Other men pass through oppositions and con- tending interests in the ways of ambition ; but your great abilities have been invited to power , and importuned to ...
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... talk these things of you ; and you can- not hide from us ( by the most discreet silence in any thing which regards yourself ) that the frank entertainment we have at your table , your easy condescension in little incidents of mirth and ...
... talk these things of you ; and you can- not hide from us ( by the most discreet silence in any thing which regards yourself ) that the frank entertainment we have at your table , your easy condescension in little incidents of mirth and ...
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... talks all the way up stairs to a visit . I must not omit , that Sir Roger is a justice of the quorum ; that he fills the chair at a quarter - session with great abilities , and three months ago gained universal applause , by ex ...
... talks all the way up stairs to a visit . I must not omit , that Sir Roger is a justice of the quorum ; that he fills the chair at a quarter - session with great abilities , and three months ago gained universal applause , by ex ...
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... talk excuse generals , for not disposing according to men's desert , or inqui- ring into it ; for , says he , that great man who has * It has been said , that the real person alluded to under this name was C. Kempenfelt , father of the ...
... talk excuse generals , for not disposing according to men's desert , or inqui- ring into it ; for , says he , that great man who has * It has been said , that the real person alluded to under this name was C. Kempenfelt , father of the ...
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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...