The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, المجلد 1J. Crissy, 1824 |
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الصفحة v
... ( says Johnson , ) England had no masters of common life , no writers had yet un- dertaken to reform either the savageness of neg- lect , or the impertinence of civility ; to teach when to speak , or to be silent ; how to refuse , or how ...
... ( says Johnson , ) England had no masters of common life , no writers had yet un- dertaken to reform either the savageness of neg- lect , or the impertinence of civility ; to teach when to speak , or to be silent ; how to refuse , or how ...
الصفحة vii
... upon the same general principles , and with the same ele- gance of taste , as the former , " till some unlucky sparkle from a Tory paper ( says Johnson ) set L Steele's politics on fire , and wit at once blazed LIVES OF THE AUTHORS . vir.
... upon the same general principles , and with the same ele- gance of taste , as the former , " till some unlucky sparkle from a Tory paper ( says Johnson ) set L Steele's politics on fire , and wit at once blazed LIVES OF THE AUTHORS . vir.
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... say the least of it ) has been always equal to those great honours which have been conferred upon you . It is very well known how much the church owed to you in the most dangerous day it ever saw ( a ) , that of the arraignment of its ...
... say the least of it ) has been always equal to those great honours which have been conferred upon you . It is very well known how much the church owed to you in the most dangerous day it ever saw ( a ) , that of the arraignment of its ...
الصفحة xxiii
... say upon any other character of distinction . I am ,. MY LORD , Your Lordship's most obedient , Most devoted humble servant , THE SPECTATOR . * The common editions read less meanly , which is evi- dently wrong . THE SPECTATOR . No. 1 ...
... say upon any other character of distinction . I am ,. MY LORD , Your Lordship's most obedient , Most devoted humble servant , THE SPECTATOR . * The common editions read less meanly , which is evi- dently wrong . THE SPECTATOR . No. 1 ...
الصفحة 26
... say that my parts were solid and would wear well . I had not been long at the university , before I dis- tinguished myself by a most profound silence ; for , during the space of eight years , excepting in the public exercises of the ...
... say that my parts were solid and would wear well . I had not been long at the university , before I dis- tinguished myself by a most profound silence ; for , during the space of eight years , excepting in the public exercises of the ...
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الصفحة 30 - ... a gentleman of Worcestershire, of ancient descent, a baronet, his name Sir Roger de Coverley. His great grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance which is called after him. All who know that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger. 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.
الصفحة 28 - In short, wherever I see a cluster of people I always mix with them, though I never open my lips but in my own club. Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind than as one of the species...
الصفحة 31 - 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. When he comes into a house he calls the servants by their names, and talks all the way upstairs to a visit.
الصفحة 28 - I am very well versed in the theory of a husband, or a father, and can discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them; as standers-by discover blots which are apt to escape those who are in the game.
الصفحة 217 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
الصفحة 73 - I have often thought there has not been sufficient pains taken in finding out proper employments and diversions for the fair ones. Their amusements seem contrived for them, rather as they are women than as they are reasonable creatures ; and are more adapted to the sex than to the species.
الصفحة 36 - ... been in the female world: as other men of his age will take notice to you what such a minister said upon such and such an occasion, he will tell you, when the Duke of Monmouth danced at court, such a woman was then smitten, another was taken with him at the head of his troop in the Park. In...
الصفحة 27 - Cocoa-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.
الصفحة 144 - Some of them were covered with such extravagant epitaphs, that if it were possible for the dead person to be acquainted with them, he would blush at the praises which his friends have bestowed upon him. There are others so excessively modest, that they deliver the character of the person departed in Greek or Hebrew, and by that means are not understood once in a twelvemonth. In the poetical quarter, I found there were poets who had no monuments, and monuments which had no poets.
الصفحة 30 - However, this humour creates him no enemies, for he does nothing with sourness or obstinacy; and his being unconfined to modes and forms makes him but the readier and more capable to please and oblige all who know him.