The Spectator, Volumen1J.Crissy, 1824 |
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... hand of one who is willing and able to show those who are bewildered , the way which leads to their prosperity and welfare . A generous concern for your country , and a pas- sion for every thing which is truly great and no- ble , are ...
... hand of one who is willing and able to show those who are bewildered , the way which leads to their prosperity and welfare . A generous concern for your country , and a pas- sion for every thing which is truly great and no- ble , are ...
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... . The Indian immediately started back , whilst the lion rose with a spring , and leaped towards him . Being wholly destitute of all other weapons , he stooped down to take up a huge stone in his hand ; but to 6 No. 56 . THE SPECTATOR .
... . The Indian immediately started back , whilst the lion rose with a spring , and leaped towards him . Being wholly destitute of all other weapons , he stooped down to take up a huge stone in his hand ; but to 6 No. 56 . THE SPECTATOR .
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Joseph Addison. up a huge stone in his hand ; but to his infinite surprise grasped nothing , and found the suppos- ed stone to be only the apparition of one . If he was disappointed on this side , he was as much pleased on the other ...
Joseph Addison. up a huge stone in his hand ; but to his infinite surprise grasped nothing , and found the suppos- ed stone to be only the apparition of one . If he was disappointed on this side , he was as much pleased on the other ...
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... hands , with all the or- naments that could be met with in those bloom- ing regions . She had made it gay beyond ima- gination , and was every day adding something new to it . As Marraton stood astonished at the unspeakable beauty of ...
... hands , with all the or- naments that could be met with in those bloom- ing regions . She had made it gay beyond ima- gination , and was every day adding something new to it . As Marraton stood astonished at the unspeakable beauty of ...
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... hand , I have very frequently the opportunity of seeing a rural Andromache , who came up to town last winter , and is one of the greatest fox - hunters in the country . She talks of hounds and horses , and makes nothing of leaping over ...
... hand , I have very frequently the opportunity of seeing a rural Andromache , who came up to town last winter , and is one of the greatest fox - hunters in the country . She talks of hounds and horses , and makes nothing of leaping over ...
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Página 252 - 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 105 - The noble earl was slain. He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth-yard long Up to the head drew he...
Página 81 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung by some blind crowder with no rougher voice than rude style ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?
Página 252 - 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 countryhouse, where I intend to form several of my ensuing speculations. Sir Roger, who is very well acquainted with my...
Página 255 - 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 235 - Fan, according to the most fashionable airs and motions that are now practised at Court. The Ladies who carry Fans under me are drawn up twice a day in my great Hall, where they are instructed in the use of their Arms, and exercised by the following words of command: Handle your Fans, Unfurl your Fans, Discharge your Fans, Ground your Fans, Recover your Fans, Flutter your Fans.
Página 78 - The single dress of a woman of quality is often the product of an 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 253 - 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...
Página 254 - I have given him the parsonage of the parish ; and because I know his value have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than perhaps he thinks he is. He has now been with me thirty years; and though he does not know I have taken notice of it, has never in all that time asked...
Página 222 - ... 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.