The Spectator: In Eight Volumes. : Vol. I[-VIII].Angier March., 1803 |
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الصفحة vii
... eyes of a poet . While he was travelling at leisure , he was far from being idle ; for he not only collected his ob- servations on the country , but found time to write his Dialogues on Medals , and four acts of Cato . Such is the ...
... eyes of a poet . While he was travelling at leisure , he was far from being idle ; for he not only collected his ob- servations on the country , but found time to write his Dialogues on Medals , and four acts of Cato . Such is the ...
الصفحة xvii
... eyes the important volume of human life , and knew the heart of man from the depths of stratagem to the surface of affectation . Pope declares that he wrote very fluently , but was slow and scrupulous in correcting ; that many of the ...
... eyes the important volume of human life , and knew the heart of man from the depths of stratagem to the surface of affectation . Pope declares that he wrote very fluently , but was slow and scrupulous in correcting ; that many of the ...
الصفحة 14
... eye to separate interests , and party principles . The thoughts of the day gave my mind employ- ment for the whole night , so that I fell insensible into a kind of methodical dream , which disposed all my contemplations into a vision or ...
... eye to separate interests , and party principles . The thoughts of the day gave my mind employ- ment for the whole night , so that I fell insensible into a kind of methodical dream , which disposed all my contemplations into a vision or ...
الصفحة 15
... eye of the virgin that sat upon the throne . Both the sides of the hall were covered with such acts of Parliament as had been made for the establishment of public funds . The lady seemed to set an unspeakable value upon these several ...
... eye of the virgin that sat upon the throne . Both the sides of the hall were covered with such acts of Parliament as had been made for the establishment of public funds . The lady seemed to set an unspeakable value upon these several ...
الصفحة 20
... eye ; and having nothing to do with men's passions or interests , I can with the greatest sagacity consider their ... eyes , and the changes of their counte- nance , their sentiments of the objects before them . I have indulged my ...
... eye ; and having nothing to do with men's passions or interests , I can with the greatest sagacity consider their ... eyes , and the changes of their counte- nance , their sentiments of the objects before them . I have indulged my ...
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الصفحة 58 - ... men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night : how often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator...
الصفحة 324 - With that there came an arrow keen Out of an English bow, Which struck Earl Douglas to the heart, A deep and deadly blow ; Who never spoke more words than these : Fight on, my merry men all ; For why, my life is at an end, Lord Percy sees my fall.
الصفحة 8 - The first of our society is 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...
الصفحة 70 - True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise : it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self; and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
الصفحة 6 - I am very well versed in the theory of a husband, or a father, and can discern the errors in the oeconomy, 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 xviii - ... truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed. This is an elevation of literary character "above all Greek, above all Roman fame.
الصفحة 318 - Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate; our tables are stored with spices and oils and wines; our rooms are filled with pyramids of china, and adorned with the workmanship of Japan; our morning's draught comes to us from the remotest corners of the earth; we repair our bodies by the drugs of America, and repose ourselves under Indian canopies. My friend Sir Andrew calls the vineyards of France our gardens; the Spice Islands our hotbeds; the Persians our silkweavers; and the Chinese...
الصفحة 196 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, 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!
الصفحة 4 - I had not been long at the university before I distinguished myself by a most profound silence ; for during the space of eight years, excepting in the public exercises of the college, I scarce uttered the quantity of an hundred words ; and indeed do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole life.
الصفحة 116 - ... 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. After having thus surveyed this great magazine of mortality, as it were, in the lump ; I examined it more particularly by the accounts which I found on several of the monuments...