English EssaysEdward Everett Hale Globe School Book Company, 1902 - 240 páginas |
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... SPECTATOR , " BY JOSEPH ADDISON : THE SPECTATOR 67 USES OF THE SPECTATOR 73 WESTMINSTER ABBEY 78 PARTY PATCHES · 83 A VISIT TO SIR ROGER THE VISION OF MIRZAH ON FABLE 89 94 101 THE TRUNK - MAKER AT THE PLAY THE CRIES OF LONDON SIR ROGER ...
... SPECTATOR , " BY JOSEPH ADDISON : THE SPECTATOR 67 USES OF THE SPECTATOR 73 WESTMINSTER ABBEY 78 PARTY PATCHES · 83 A VISIT TO SIR ROGER THE VISION OF MIRZAH ON FABLE 89 94 101 THE TRUNK - MAKER AT THE PLAY THE CRIES OF LONDON SIR ROGER ...
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... Spectator . Like the Tatler , it consisted of a series of short essays , but the essays in the Spectator were , as a rule , sup- posedly written by the members of a certain club , of which the Spectator himself was a member . As Addison ...
... Spectator . Like the Tatler , it consisted of a series of short essays , but the essays in the Spectator were , as a rule , sup- posedly written by the members of a certain club , of which the Spectator himself was a member . As Addison ...
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... Spectator . Addison and Goldsmith were the great masters of the essay before Lamb ; there have been many after him , but none who wrote with more skill and charm than Thackeray . Thackeray was a great novelist , but toward the end of ...
... Spectator . Addison and Goldsmith were the great masters of the essay before Lamb ; there have been many after him , but none who wrote with more skill and charm than Thackeray . Thackeray was a great novelist , but toward the end of ...
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... spectator in it . The guests assembled about seven . In those little temporary parlors three tables were spread with napery , not so fine as sub- stantial , and at every board a comely hostess pre- sided with her pan of hissing sausages ...
... spectator in it . The guests assembled about seven . In those little temporary parlors three tables were spread with napery , not so fine as sub- stantial , and at every board a comely hostess pre- sided with her pan of hissing sausages ...
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... harder , Thus hungry , longing , thus without a penny , Beholding choice of dainty - dressed meat : No wonder if he wished he ne'er had learn'd to eat . FROM " THE SPECTATOR " " THE SPECTATOR I HAVE 66 HAWTHORNE CLASSICS.
... harder , Thus hungry , longing , thus without a penny , Beholding choice of dainty - dressed meat : No wonder if he wished he ne'er had learn'd to eat . FROM " THE SPECTATOR " " THE SPECTATOR I HAVE 66 HAWTHORNE CLASSICS.
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Página 96 - I drew near with that reverence which is due to a superior nature ; and as my heart was entirely subdued by the captivating strains I had heard, I fell down at his feet and wept. The genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions with which I approached him.
Página 121 - Shovel ! a very gallant man !' As we stood before Busby's tomb, the knight uttered himself again after the same manner, ' Dr. Busby, a great man ! he whipped my grandfather; a very great man!
Página 92 - At his first settling with me, I made him a present of all the good sermons which have been printed in English, and only begged of him that every Sunday he would pronounce one of them in the pulpit. Accordingly he has digested them into such a series, that they follow one another naturally, and make a continued system of practical divinity.
Página 97 - I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it. As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it; and upon further examination...
Página 2 - While he was thinking what he should say to his father, and wringing his hands over the smoking remnants of one of those untimely sufferers, an odor assailed his nostrils unlike any scent which he had before experienced.
Página 5 - Ho-ti himself, which was the more remarkable, instead of chastising his son, seemed to grow more indulgent to him than ever. At length they were watched, the terrible mystery discovered, and father and son summoned to take their trial at Pekin, then an inconsiderable assize town.
Página 80 - ... and enemies, priests and soldiers, monks and prebendaries, were crumbled amongst one another, and blended together in the same common mass ; how beauty, strength, and youth, with old age, weakness, and deformity, lay undistinguished, in the same promiscuous heap of matter.
Página 70 - 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 67 - ... like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author. To gratify this curiosity, which is so natural to a reader, I design this paper and my next as prefatory discourses to my following writings, and shall give some account in them of the several persons that are engaged in this work.
Página 95 - I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.