The SpectatorApplegate, 1853 - 742 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 100
Página xix
the whole produced an income of £ 400 per annum . Having taken possession of his living at Laracor , he was at great pains in repairing and improving the Vicarage house and grounds ; he added nineteen acres to the Glebe , and purchased ...
the whole produced an income of £ 400 per annum . Having taken possession of his living at Laracor , he was at great pains in repairing and improving the Vicarage house and grounds ; he added nineteen acres to the Glebe , and purchased ...
Página xx
... whole kingdom : it was read , admired , and discussed , by all rank offered , " says Sir Walter Scott , " personal and political satire to the readers in h low and coarse incident to the vulgar , marvels to the romantic , wit to the you ...
... whole kingdom : it was read , admired , and discussed , by all rank offered , " says Sir Walter Scott , " personal and political satire to the readers in h low and coarse incident to the vulgar , marvels to the romantic , wit to the you ...
Página 44
... whole people ; and perhaps it may appear upon examination , that the most polite ages are the least virtuous . This may be attributed to the folly of admitting wit and learning as merit in themselves , without considering the ...
... whole people ; and perhaps it may appear upon examination , that the most polite ages are the least virtuous . This may be attributed to the folly of admitting wit and learning as merit in themselves , without considering the ...
Página 45
... whole thread of my existence , not only that part of it which I have already passed through , but that which runs forward into all the depths of eter- nity . When I lay me down to sleep , I recommend myself to his care ; when I awake ...
... whole thread of my existence , not only that part of it which I have already passed through , but that which runs forward into all the depths of eter- nity . When I lay me down to sleep , I recommend myself to his care ; when I awake ...
Página 50
... whole fore I could settle myself in a house to my liking . closed their ranks , and crowded about th I was forced to quit my first lodgings , by reason took notice in particular of a little boy , of an officious landlady , that would be ...
... whole fore I could settle myself in a house to my liking . closed their ranks , and crowded about th I was forced to quit my first lodgings , by reason took notice in particular of a little boy , of an officious landlady , that would be ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance action Addison admiration Æneid agreeable appear Aristotle beauty behavior character consider conversation creature desire discourse dress endeavor entertainment Eustace Budgell eyes fair sex father favor fortune genius gentleman give greatest happy head heart honor hope Hudibras humble servant humor husband Iliad imagination innocent John Byrom John Hughes kind lady learned letter live look lover mankind manner marriage master ment mind nature never obliged observe occasion OVID paper Paradise Lost particular pass passion person Pharamond Pict pleased pleasure poem poet present proper reader reason received Richard Steele Sappho sense sion Sir Roger Socrates soul speak SPECTATOR spirit Steele Tatler tell temper things thou thought tion told town turn verses VIRG Virgil virtue Whigs whole woman women words writing young
Pasajes populares
Página 209 - 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...
Página 152 - My chief companion, when Sir Roger is diverting himself in the woods or the fields, is a very venerable man who is ever with Sir Roger, and has lived at his house in the nature of a chaplain above thirty years. This gentleman is a person of good sense and some learning, of a very regular life and obliging conversation: he heartily loves Sir Roger, and knows that he is very much in the old knight's esteem, so that he lives in the family rather as a relation than a dependant.
Página 209 - Multitudes were very busy in the pursuit of bubbles that glittered in their eyes and danced before them, but often when they thought themselves within the reach of them their footing failed and down they sunk.
Página 209 - those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it 'from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures, several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches." "These," said the genius, " are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life.
Página 169 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart ; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.
Página 209 - Is death to be feared, that will convey thee to so happy an existence ? Think not man was made in vain, who has such an eternity reserved for him.
Página 112 - The single dress of a woman of quality is often the product of a hundred climates. The muff and the fan come together from the different ends of the earth. The scarf is sent from the torrid zone, and the tippet from beneath the pole. The brocade petticoat rises out of the mines of Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Indostan.
Página 63 - Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was born upon one day, and died upon another: the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances, that are common to all mankind. I could not but look upon these registers of existence, whether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire upon the departed persons; who had left no other memorial of them but that they were born and that they died.
Página 103 - 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...
Página 152 - ... he has been useless for several years. I could not but observe with a great deal of pleasure, the joy that appeared in the countenances of these ancient domestics upon my friend's arrival at his country-seat.