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Page ix
... Verses on a Morning in Town , and on A City Shower , which are printed in his works , made their first appear- ance here . The remarks on various preachers then in vogue , No. 66 , contain much of the substance of his Letter to a ...
... Verses on a Morning in Town , and on A City Shower , which are printed in his works , made their first appear- ance here . The remarks on various preachers then in vogue , No. 66 , contain much of the substance of his Letter to a ...
Page xxi
... verse , which was then a novelty to the English reader , as was also the nature of the poem itself ; for we had no regular epic , and the common reader was not , as now , familiarized , through the me- dium of good translations , with ...
... verse , which was then a novelty to the English reader , as was also the nature of the poem itself ; for we had no regular epic , and the common reader was not , as now , familiarized , through the me- dium of good translations , with ...
Page xxv
... verse , which was then a novelty to the English reader , as was also the nature of the poem itself ; for we had no regular epic , and the common reader was not , as now , familiarized , through the me- dium of good translations , with ...
... verse , which was then a novelty to the English reader , as was also the nature of the poem itself ; for we had no regular epic , and the common reader was not , as now , familiarized , through the me- dium of good translations , with ...
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... verses , which he said he had received that morning by the penny - post from an unknown hand . My friend admired them extremely . Sir , said he , this must come from a man that is eminent : you see fire , life , and spirit , run through ...
... verses , which he said he had received that morning by the penny - post from an unknown hand . My friend admired them extremely . Sir , said he , this must come from a man that is eminent : you see fire , life , and spirit , run through ...
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... verse , and was made to rhyme to the word ' stand . ' This Roscius excepted against . The new poet gave up that too , and said he would not dispute for a monosyllable . " For a monosyllable ! says the real author , I can assure you , a ...
... verse , and was made to rhyme to the word ' stand . ' This Roscius excepted against . The new poet gave up that too , and said he would not dispute for a monosyllable . " For a monosyllable ! says the real author , I can assure you , a ...
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acquaintance acrostic ADDISON Æneid agreeable antient appear Atalantis authors beautiful Bickerstaff Brunetta charms colours conversation countenance court Court of Honour Daphne delightful discourse dress entertained esquire Eudoxus face fair sex fancy fashion father figure filled friend sir Roger gentleman give hand head hear heard honour humour insomuch Isaac Bickerstaff kind lady lady's library Lætitia Leonora letter likewise lion lived look lovers manner marriage married means mind morning mour nature neral never night observed occasion octavos opera paper party party-rage passion patches person petticoat Phillis Picts pleased pleasure poet pound present reader reason Rosalinda says scaramouches servant side Silent Woman sister Spectator Tatler tell ther thing thou thought tion told took tory turn verses walk whig whiggish whole woman women words young
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Page 202 - My chief companion, when Sir Roger is diverting himself in the woods or the fields, is a very venerable man who is ever with Sir Roger, and has lived at his house in the nature of a chaplain above thirty years. This gentleman is a person of good sense and some learning, of a very regular life and obliging conversation...
Page 204 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart ; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.
Page 206 - The court was sat before Sir Roger came ; but notwithstanding all the justices had taken their places upon the bench, they made room for the old knight at the head of them; who, for his reputation in the country, took occasion to whisper in the judge's ear, that he was glad his lordship had met with so much good weather in his circuit.
Page 203 - ... the university to find him out a clergyman rather of plain sense than much learning, of a good aspect, a clear voice, a sociable temper, and, if possible, a man that understood a little of backgammon.
Page 204 - With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge, such inexhausted sources of perfection ? We know not yet what we shall be, nor will it ever enter into the heart of man to conceive the glory that will be always in reserve for him. The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it*: and can there be a thought...
Page 206 - I was yesterday very much surprised to hear my old friend, in the midst of the service, calling out to one John Matthews to mind what he was about, and not disturb the congregation. This John Matthews, it seems, is remarkable for being an idle fellow, and at that time was kicking his heels for his diversion. This authority of the knight, though exerted in that odd manner which accompanies him in all...
Page 206 - Such-a-one, if he pleased, might take the law of him for fishing in that part of the river. My friend Sir Roger heard them both, upon a round trot; and after having paused some time, told them, with the air of a man who would not give his judgment rashly, that much might be said on both sides.
Page 69 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 202 - This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion, wherein for the most part lies that entertainment and pleasantry of wit which strikes so lively on the fancy, and therefore is so acceptable to all people...
Page 202 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.