The Spectator: ...J. Tonson, 1718 |
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... OBSERVING an old Man ( who was the fame Per- fon I before - mentioned , as the only Artist that was at work on this Side of the Gallery ) creeping up and down from one Picture to another , and retouching all the fine Pieces that stood ...
... OBSERVING an old Man ( who was the fame Per- fon I before - mentioned , as the only Artist that was at work on this Side of the Gallery ) creeping up and down from one Picture to another , and retouching all the fine Pieces that stood ...
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... Observation , that I never faw , but in Sir ROGER's Family , and one or two more , good Ser- vants treated as they ought to be . Sir ROGER's Kind- nefs extends to their Childrens Children , and this very Morning he fent his Coachman's ...
... Observation , that I never faw , but in Sir ROGER's Family , and one or two more , good Ser- vants treated as they ought to be . Sir ROGER's Kind- nefs extends to their Childrens Children , and this very Morning he fent his Coachman's ...
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... observe that it is marked with the Pecking of Birds ; but fall on without any Fear or Apprehenfion where the Birds have been before them . BUT notwithstanding Animals have nothing like the use of Reason , we find in them all the lower ...
... observe that it is marked with the Pecking of Birds ; but fall on without any Fear or Apprehenfion where the Birds have been before them . BUT notwithstanding Animals have nothing like the use of Reason , we find in them all the lower ...
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... observe the Conduct of the fair Sex , we find that they chufe ra- ther to affociate themfelves with a Perfon who resembles them in that light and volatile Humour which is natural to them , than to fuch as are qualified to moderate and ...
... observe the Conduct of the fair Sex , we find that they chufe ra- ther to affociate themfelves with a Perfon who resembles them in that light and volatile Humour which is natural to them , than to fuch as are qualified to moderate and ...
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... observe , that our proper Names , when familiarized in English , generally dwindle to Mono- fyllables , whereas in other modern Languages , they receive a fofter Turn on this occafion , by the Addition of a new Syllable . Nick in ...
... observe , that our proper Names , when familiarized in English , generally dwindle to Mono- fyllables , whereas in other modern Languages , they receive a fofter Turn on this occafion , by the Addition of a new Syllable . Nick in ...
Términos y frases comunes
againſt appear Beauty becauſe befides Behaviour beſt Bufinefs cife Circumftances Confequence confider Confideration Converfation Country Creature Defign defire Difcourfe Drefs Eftate Eudoxus Exercife exprefs Eyes faid fame feems feen felf felves fent ferve feve feven feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon Fortune fpeak Friend Sir ROGER ftand ftill fuch fure Gentleman give greateſt himſelf honeft Honour Houfe Houſe Humble Servant Humour Inftances kind Lady laft leaft lefs Letter live look Love Mafter Mankind Manner meaſure Mind moft moſt muft muſt Nature never obferve Occafion Paffion pafs particular Perfon Pharamond pleafed pleaſe Pleaſure poffible prefent preferve publick racter raiſed Reafon Refpect reft Senfe ſhe Soul SPECTATOR thefe themſelves ther theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought told ufual Underſtanding uſed Virg whofe whole Woman Women Words World young
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Página 277 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.
Página 110 - Bible to be given him next day for his encouragement, and sometimes accompanies it with a flitch of bacon to his mother. Sir Roger has likewise added five pounds a year to the clerk's place; and that he may encourage the young fellows to make themselves perfect in the...
Página 96 - He is extremely well versed in all the little handicrafts of an idle man. He makes a May-fly to a miracle, and furnishes the whole country with angle-rods. As he is a good-natured officious fellow, and very much esteemed upon account of his family, he is a welcome guest at every house, and keeps up a good correspondence among all the gentlemen about him. He carries a...
Página 147 - ... for any man under a duke; but told him at the same time, that it might be altered with a very few touches, and that he himself would be at the charge of it. Accordingly they got a painter, by the knight's directions, to add a pair of whiskers to the face, and by a little aggravation of the features to change it into the Saracen's Head.
Página 46 - ... hours which we here employ in virtue or in vice, the argument redoubles upon us for putting in practice this method of passing away our time. When a man has but a little stock to improve, and has opportunities of turning it all to good account, what shall we think of him...
Página 89 - My worthy friend has put me under the particular care of his butler, who is a very prudent man, and, as well as the rest of his fellow-servants, wonderfully desirous of pleasing me, because they have often heard their master talk of me as of his particular friend.
Página 120 - Manufactures, trade, and agriculture, naturally employ more than nineteen parts of the species in twenty ; and as for those who are not obliged to labour, by the condition in which they are born, they are more miserable than the rest of mankind, unless they indulge themselves in that voluntary labour which goes by the name of exercise.
Página 145 - Hare or a Pheasant: He knocks down a Dinner with his Gun twice or thrice a Week; and by that means lives much cheaper than those who have not so good an Estate as himself. He would be a good Neighbour if he did not destroy so many Partridges: in short, he is a very sensible Man; shoots flying; and has been several times Foreman of the Petty Jury.
Página 144 - ... 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. A man is more sure of his conduct, when the verdict which he passes upon his own behaviour is thus warranted and confirmed by the opinion of all that know him.
Página 277 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them.