The Spectator [by J. Addison and others] with sketches of the lives of the authors, and explanatory notes. 12 vols. [in 6]., Zväzky 1–21853 |
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Výsledky 1 - 5 z 49.
Strana v
... desire of correcting the errors and improving the manners of society . The plan of the Spectator was original , inge- nious , and well executed . It enabled the authors to convey instruction in a form which could never give offence ...
... desire of correcting the errors and improving the manners of society . The plan of the Spectator was original , inge- nious , and well executed . It enabled the authors to convey instruction in a form which could never give offence ...
Strana 33
... desires after he had forgot his cruel beauty , insomuch that it is reported he has frequently offended in point of chastity with beggars and gypsies ; but this is looked upon , by his friends , rather as a matter of raillery than truth ...
... desires after he had forgot his cruel beauty , insomuch that it is reported he has frequently offended in point of chastity with beggars and gypsies ; but this is looked upon , by his friends , rather as a matter of raillery than truth ...
Strana 45
... desire no more in any thing but to be new , to be agreeable . If I found consolation among such , I was as much disquieted by the incapacity of others . These are mortals who have a certain curiosity without power of reflection , and ...
... desire no more in any thing but to be new , to be agreeable . If I found consolation among such , I was as much disquieted by the incapacity of others . These are mortals who have a certain curiosity without power of reflection , and ...
Strana 76
... desires to form a right judgment of those who are the actors ' on it . There is another set of men that I must like- wise lay a claim to , whom I have lately called the blanks of society , as being altogether unfurnished with ideas 76 ...
... desires to form a right judgment of those who are the actors ' on it . There is another set of men that I must like- wise lay a claim to , whom I have lately called the blanks of society , as being altogether unfurnished with ideas 76 ...
Strana 79
... desire me to keep my word , as- sure me that it is high time to give over , with many other little pleasantries of the like nature , which men of a little smart genius can not for- bear throwing out against their best friends , when ...
... desire me to keep my word , as- sure me that it is high time to give over , with many other little pleasantries of the like nature , which men of a little smart genius can not for- bear throwing out against their best friends , when ...
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acquaint acrostics ADDISON admiration Æneid agreeable anagrams appear Aristotle audience beauty behaviour body called character Cicero club conversation daugh discourse dress DRYDEN endeavour English entertainment eyes face fair sex favour genius gentleman give hand head heard heart honour Hudibras humble servant humour Italian JOHN HENLEY kind king lady laugh learned letter lion live look Lord lover mankind manner master means mind mistress nature never night observed occasion opera OVID paper particular passion person Pharamond Pict play pleased pleasure poem poet present prince privy counsellors reader reason ROSCOMMON sense sion Sir Roger speak Spectator STEELE talk Tatler tell thing THOMAS TICKELL thors thou thought tion told town tragedy Tryphiodorus ture turn verses VIRG Virgil virtue Whig whole woman women words writing young
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Strana 242 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Strana 155 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Strana 180 - 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...
Strana 258 - 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...
Strana 262 - 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.
Strana 181 - Yet innocence and virgin modesty, Her virtue, and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won, Not obvious, not obtrusive, but...
Strana 30 - 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.
Strana 260 - At his first settling with me I made him a present of all the good sermons which have been printed in English, and only begged of him that every Sunday he would pronounce one of them in the pulpit. Accordingly he has digested them into such a series that they follow one another naturally, and make a continued system of practical divinity.
Strana 34 - ... both in town and country, a great lover of mankind; but there is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour, that he is rather beloved than esteemed: 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...
Strana 152 - ... and enemies, priests and soldiers, monks and prebendaries, were crumbled amongst one another, and blended together in the same common mass ; how beauty, strength, and youth, with old age, weakness, and deformity, lay undistinguished in the same promiscuous heap of matter.