English EssaysBlackie & son, limited, 1896 - 257 páginas |
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... Thoughts on Sleep , XLI . Deaths of Little Children , WILLIAM HAZLITT- XLII . On Going a Journey , XLIII . The Sick Chamber , - CHARLES LAMB- - 180 - - 188 - 194 - 198 - 211 XLIV . All Fools ' Day , XLV . Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist ...
... Thoughts on Sleep , XLI . Deaths of Little Children , WILLIAM HAZLITT- XLII . On Going a Journey , XLIII . The Sick Chamber , - CHARLES LAMB- - 180 - - 188 - 194 - 198 - 211 XLIV . All Fools ' Day , XLV . Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist ...
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... thought of having been the pioneer of Steele is evident from the fact that , long after the Tatler and the Spectator had begun to meet with the neglect generally paid to established classics , he appeared in the preface of the Universal ...
... thought of having been the pioneer of Steele is evident from the fact that , long after the Tatler and the Spectator had begun to meet with the neglect generally paid to established classics , he appeared in the preface of the Universal ...
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... thought London would ever have had near 3000 such Nusances , and that Coffee should have been ( as now ) so much Drank by the best of Quality and Physicians ? " This question at once brings one face to face with the most characteristic ...
... thought London would ever have had near 3000 such Nusances , and that Coffee should have been ( as now ) so much Drank by the best of Quality and Physicians ? " This question at once brings one face to face with the most characteristic ...
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... thought of as being , like his friend Gay , " in wit a man , simplicity a child " . So enamoured of Addison's " elegance " were his earlier editors that they rather grudged Steele any share of his fame , and it is unfortunate that some ...
... thought of as being , like his friend Gay , " in wit a man , simplicity a child " . So enamoured of Addison's " elegance " were his earlier editors that they rather grudged Steele any share of his fame , and it is unfortunate that some ...
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... thoughts , and for this purpose the earlier and looser form of the Tatler was best adapted . Of his sustained pieces of humour there is none better than the description of the Trumpet Club , whose president STEELE'S QUALIFICATIONS . XXV.
... thoughts , and for this purpose the earlier and looser form of the Tatler was best adapted . Of his sustained pieces of humour there is none better than the description of the Trumpet Club , whose president STEELE'S QUALIFICATIONS . XXV.
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Página 1 - Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man ; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit ; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtile ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend...
Página 1 - Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Página 1 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. That is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Página 27 - With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike : Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Página 38 - ... 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 39 - 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 233 - Then, in somewhat a more heightened tone, I told how, though their great-grandmother Field loved all her grand-children, yet in an especial manner she might be said to love their uncle, John L , because he was so handsome and spirited a youth, and a king to the rest of us...
Página 234 - Then I told how for seven long years, in hope sometimes, sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n ; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty, and denial meant in maidens — when suddenly, turning to Alice, the soul of the first Alice looked out at her eyes with such a reality of re-presentment, that I became in doubt which of them stood there before me, or whose that bright hair was...
Página 37 - 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.
Página 65 - There is the angry flutter, the modest flutter, the timorous flutter, the confused flutter, the merry flutter, and the amorous flutter. Not to be tedious, there is scarce any emotion in the mind which does not produce a suitable agitation in the fan; insomuch, that if I only see the fan of a disciplined lady, I know very well whether she laughs, frowns, or blushes.