The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Volumen2J. Crissy, 1824 |
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... likewise spoken as unintelli- gibly of their substantial forms . I shall only in- stance Albertus Magnus , who in his disserta- tion upon the loadstone , observing that fire will destroy its magnetic virtues , tells us that he took.
... likewise spoken as unintelli- gibly of their substantial forms . I shall only in- stance Albertus Magnus , who in his disserta- tion upon the loadstone , observing that fire will destroy its magnetic virtues , tells us that he took.
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... tion of anagrams , which is nothing else but the transmutation of one word into another , or the turning of the same set of letters into different words ; which may change night into day or black into white , if chance , who is the ...
... tion of anagrams , which is nothing else but the transmutation of one word into another , or the turning of the same set of letters into different words ; which may change night into day or black into white , if chance , who is the ...
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... tion which , Aristenetus makes of a fine woman ; when she is dressed , she is beautiful ; when she is undressed , she is beautiful : or , as Mercerus has translated it more emphatically , Induitur , formosa est : exuitur , ipsa forma ...
... tion which , Aristenetus makes of a fine woman ; when she is dressed , she is beautiful ; when she is undressed , she is beautiful : or , as Mercerus has translated it more emphatically , Induitur , formosa est : exuitur , ipsa forma ...
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... tion will be found to agree with it . As true wit generally consists in this resem- blance and congruity of ideas , false wit chiefly consists in the resemblance and congruity some- times of single letters , as in anagrams , chrono ...
... tion will be found to agree with it . As true wit generally consists in this resem- blance and congruity of ideas , false wit chiefly consists in the resemblance and congruity some- times of single letters , as in anagrams , chrono ...
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... tion . This therefore was at first assumed by such only as were under real distress : to whom it was a relief that they had nothing about them so light and gay as to be irksome to the gloom and melancholy of their inward reflections ...
... tion . This therefore was at first assumed by such only as were under real distress : to whom it was a relief that they had nothing about them so light and gay as to be irksome to the gloom and melancholy of their inward reflections ...
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Página 250 - 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 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...
Página 101 - Lo, yonder doth Earl Douglas come, His men in armour bright ; Full twenty hundred Scottish spears All marching in our sight ; All men of pleasant Teviotdale, Fast by the river Tweed...
Página 250 - 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 253 - 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 79 - 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 192 - WE all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.
Página 252 - As I was walking with him last night, he asked me how I liked the good man whom I have just now mentioned? and without staying for my answer told me, that he was afraid of being insulted with Latin and Greek at his own table...
Página 176 - With what all Earth or Heaven could bestow To make her amiable...
Página 76 - 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.