The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Volumen2James Crissy, 1832 |
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... acrostic , by which means some of the most arrant undisputed blockheads about the town , began to entertain ambitious thoughts , and to set up for polite authors . I shall , therefore , describe at length those many arts of false wit ...
... acrostic , by which means some of the most arrant undisputed blockheads about the town , began to entertain ambitious thoughts , and to set up for polite authors . I shall , therefore , describe at length those many arts of false wit ...
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... acrostic land ; There may'st thou wings display , and altars raise , And torture one poor word a thousand ways . This fashion of false wit was revived by seve- ral poets of the last age , and in particular may be met with among Mr ...
... acrostic land ; There may'st thou wings display , and altars raise , And torture one poor word a thousand ways . This fashion of false wit was revived by seve- ral poets of the last age , and in particular may be met with among Mr ...
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... acrostic was probably invented about the same time with the anagram , though it is impos- sible to decide whether the ... acrostics , when the principal letters stand two or three deep . I have seen some of them where the verses have not ...
... acrostic was probably invented about the same time with the anagram , though it is impos- sible to decide whether the ... acrostics , when the principal letters stand two or three deep . I have seen some of them where the verses have not ...
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... acrostics , which is commonly called a chro- nogram . This kind of wit appears very often on many modern medals , especially those of Germa- ny , when they represent in the inscription the year in which they were coined . Thus we see on ...
... acrostics , which is commonly called a chro- nogram . This kind of wit appears very often on many modern medals , especially those of Germa- ny , when they represent in the inscription the year in which they were coined . Thus we see on ...
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... a race of punsters : at least a man may be very ex- cusable for any apprehensions of this kind , that has seen acrostics handed about the town with 1 great secrecy and applause ; to which I must No. 61 . 35 THE SPECTATOR . 2.
... a race of punsters : at least a man may be very ex- cusable for any apprehensions of this kind , that has seen acrostics handed about the town with 1 great secrecy and applause ; to which I must No. 61 . 35 THE SPECTATOR . 2.
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acquaintance acrostics ADDISON admired Æneid agreeable anagrams ancient appear beautiful behaviour body Brunetta called Cicero club creature daugh discourse Dorimant dressed DRYDEN Earl Douglas endeavour Epidaurus epigram Eucrate eyes face fair sex false wit favour figure Flavia fortune gentleman give greatest hand head heard heart Honoria honour Hudibras humble servant humour Idol kind of wit king lady learned letter lived look lord lover mankind manner master mind mistress nature never observe occasion Ovid paper particular passion person Pharamond Plato Platonic love pleased pleasure poem poet present prince privy counsellors reader reason rhymes ROSCOMMON sense side sion Sir Roger sorrow soul speak SPECTATOR stancy tell thing thou thought tion Tmolus told Tryphiodorus turn Turnus verses VIRG Virgil virtue Whig whole woman women words writing young
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Página 37 - 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 ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Página 262 - Roger's family, because it consists of sober and staid persons; for .as the knight is the best master in the world, he seldom changes his servants; and as he is beloved by all about him, his servants never care for leaving him : by this means his Domestics are all in years, and grown old with their master. You would take his valet...
Página 184 - Manlike, but different sex, so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the World, seem'd now Mean, or in her summ'd up, in her contain'd And in her looks, which from that time infus'd Sweetness into my heart, unfelt before, And into all things from her Air inspir'd The spirit of love and amorous delight.
Página 265 - I no sooner saw this venerable man in the pulpit, but I very much approved of my friend's insisting upon the qualifications of a good aspect and a clear voice ; for I was so charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and delivery, as well as the discourses he pronounced, that I think I never passed any time more to my satisfaction. A sermon repeated after this manner, is like the composition of a poet in the mouth of a graceful actor.
Página 230 - ... hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
Página 75 - We may observe in this and several other precepts in this author, those little familiar instances and illustrations which are so much admired in the moral writings of Horace and Epictetus.
Página 83 - Cowley ; so, on the contrary, an ordinary song or ballad that is the delight of the common people, cannot fail to please all such readers as are not unqualified for the entertainment by their affectation or ignorance; and the reason is plain — because the same paintings of nature which recommend it to the most ordinary reader will appear beautiful to the most refined.
Página 265 - As Sir Roger was going on in his story, the gentleman we were talking of came up to us ; and upon the knight's asking him who preached to-morrow (for it was Saturday night) told us, the Bishop of St Asaph in the morning, and Dr South in the afternoon.
Página 261 - HAVING often received an invitation from my friend Sir Roger de Coverley to pass away a month with him in the country, I last week accompanied him thither, and am settled with him for some time at his country-house, where I intend to form several of my ensuing speculations. Sir Roger, who is very well acquainted with my humour, lets me rise and go to bed when I please, dine at his own table or in my chamber as I think fit, sit still and say nothing without bidding me be merry.
Página 228 - One may observe, that women in all ages have taken more pains than men to adorn the outside of their heads...