The Spectator, Volume 1George Atherton Aitken John C. Nimmo, 1898 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 50
Page 4
... audiences . Sometimes I smoke a pipe at Child's , and whilst I seem attentive to nothing but the Postman , overhear the conversation of every table in the room . I appear on Sunday nights at St. James's Coffee - House , and sometimes ...
... audiences . Sometimes I smoke a pipe at Child's , and whilst I seem attentive to nothing but the Postman , overhear the conversation of every table in the room . I appear on Sunday nights at St. James's Coffee - House , and sometimes ...
Page 11
... commonly known as ' Coke upon Littleton . ' 3 The Rose Tavern , in Russell Street , Covent Garden , adjoined Drury Lane Theatre , and was partially demolished in 1776 , when audience when he is at a play , for the No. 2 II The SPECTATOR.
... commonly known as ' Coke upon Littleton . ' 3 The Rose Tavern , in Russell Street , Covent Garden , adjoined Drury Lane Theatre , and was partially demolished in 1776 , when audience when he is at a play , for the No. 2 II The SPECTATOR.
Page 12
George Atherton Aitken. audience when he is at a play , for the actors have an ambition to please him . The person of next consideration is Sir Andrew Freeport , a merchant of great eminence in the city of London a person of ...
George Atherton Aitken. audience when he is at a play , for the actors have an ambition to please him . The person of next consideration is Sir Andrew Freeport , a merchant of great eminence in the city of London a person of ...
Page 23
... audience . There are so many gratifica- tions attend this public sort of obscurity that some little distastes I daily receive have lost their anguish ; and I did the other day , ' without the least displea- sure , overhear one say of me ...
... audience . There are so many gratifica- tions attend this public sort of obscurity that some little distastes I daily receive have lost their anguish ; and I did the other day , ' without the least displea- sure , overhear one say of me ...
Page 27
... audience . Common sense , however , requires that there should be nothing in the scenes and machines which may appear childish and absurd . How would the wits of King Charles's time have laughed , to have seen Nicolini1 exposed to a ...
... audience . Common sense , however , requires that there should be nothing in the scenes and machines which may appear childish and absurd . How would the wits of King Charles's time have laughed , to have seen Nicolini1 exposed to a ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acquaint acrostics Addison admiration Æneid agreeable ancient appear assembly audience Bartholomew Fair beautiful behaviour Bouts-Rimés called character Chevy Chase club Coffee-House conversation Covent Garden dance delight discourse dress endeavour English entertainment eyes false favour folio French genius gentleman give hand heart hero Honoré D'Urfé honour Hudibras humble Servant humour Isaac Bickerstaff Italian kind King Kit-Cat Club lady laugh learned letter lion Little Britain live look Lord lover mankind manner mind mistress nature never night observed occasion opera OVID paper passion person Pharamond Pict play pleased pleasure poem poet present prince reader reason Richard Steele ridicule says scenes sense Sir Roger speak Spectator stage Steele Steele's talk Tatler tell things thought tion told town tragedy translated Tryphiodorus verses virtue Whig whole woman women words writings young
Popular passages
Page 227 - 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?
Page 226 - 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!
Page 9 - 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.
Page 14 - ... the gallant Will Honeycomb, a gentleman who, according to his years, should be in the decline of his life, but having ever been very careful of his person, and always had a very easy fortune, time has made but very little impression, either by wrinkles on his forehead, or traces in his brain.
Page 386 - 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...
Page 15 - He is very ready at that sort of discourse with which men usually entertain women. He has all his life dressed very well, and remembers habits as others do men. He can smile when one speaks to him, and laughs easily. He knows the history of every mode, and can inform you from which of the French king's wenches our wives and daughters had this manner of curling their hair...
Page 40 - A screech-owl at midnight has alarmed a family more than a band of robbers; nay, the voice of a cricket hath struck more terror than the roaring of a lion. There is nothing so inconsiderable, which may not appear dreadful to an imagination that is filled with omens and prognostics: a rusty nail or a crooked pin shoot up into prodigies.
Page 357 - In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow ; Hast so much wit, and mirth, and spleen about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
Page 3 - 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.
Page 136 - English admiral, which was the distinguishing character of that plain gallant man, he is represented on his tomb by the figure of a beau, dressed in a long periwig, and reposing himself upon velvet cushions under a canopy of state.