The Spectator, Volumen1Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 |
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Alexander Chalmers. amples of the courage and generosity of the na- tion he represented . Your friends and companions in your absence frequently talk these things of you ; and you can- not hide from us ( by the most discreet silence in ...
Alexander Chalmers. amples of the courage and generosity of the na- tion he represented . Your friends and companions in your absence frequently talk these things of you ; and you can- not hide from us ( by the most discreet silence in ...
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... represented ) a Christian conjuror ( Mago Christiano ) . I must confess I am very much puzzled to fine how an Amazon should be versed in the black art , or how a good Christian , for such is the part of the magician , should deal with ...
... represented ) a Christian conjuror ( Mago Christiano ) . I must confess I am very much puzzled to fine how an Amazon should be versed in the black art , or how a good Christian , for such is the part of the magician , should deal with ...
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... represented as men of dangerous principles ; till at length they worked them out of the favour of the people , and consequently out of the magistracy . These factions tore the cor- poration in pieces for several years , till at length ...
... represented as men of dangerous principles ; till at length they worked them out of the favour of the people , and consequently out of the magistracy . These factions tore the cor- poration in pieces for several years , till at length ...
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... representing to his reader the make of an engine and pully , with which he used to take off his hat . When there happens to be any thing ridiculous in a visage , and the owner of it thinks it an aspect of dignity , he must be of very ...
... representing to his reader the make of an engine and pully , with which he used to take off his hat . When there happens to be any thing ridiculous in a visage , and the owner of it thinks it an aspect of dignity , he must be of very ...
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... representing human and still life together . I have several times acted one of the finest flower - pots in the same opera wherein Mr. Screene is a chair ; therefore upon his pro- motion , request that I may succeed him in the hangings ...
... representing human and still life together . I have several times acted one of the finest flower - pots in the same opera wherein Mr. Screene is a chair ; therefore upon his pro- motion , request that I may succeed him in the hangings ...
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Página 94 - He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world, only as he thinks the world is in the wrong.
Página 314 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Página 96 - His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
Página 297 - Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Página 92 - Tree, and in the theatres both of Drury Lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stock-jobbers at Jonathan's.
Página 92 - I never espoused any party with violence, and am resolved to observe an exact neutrality between the Whigs and Tories, unless I shall be forced to declare myself by the hostilities of either side. In short, I have acted in all the parts of my life as a looker-on, which is the character I intend to preserve in this paper.
Página 24 - As a teacher of wisdom, he may be confidently followed. His religion has nothing in it enthusiastic or superstitious: he appears neither weakly credulous, nor wantonly sceptical; his morality is neither dangerously lax, nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument, are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being.
Página 100 - To conclude his character, where women are not concerned, he is an honest worthy man. I cannot tell whether I am to account him whom I am next to speak of, as one of our company ; for he visits us but seldom ; but when he does, it adds to every man else a new enjoyment of himself.
Página 210 - I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey ; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable.
Página 310 - I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly...