The SpectatorRichard Eyres, 1778 - Great Britain |
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Page 25
... humour : Iras & verba locant . " Men that hire out their words and anger ; " that are more or less paffionate according as they are paid for it , and allow their client a quantity of wrath proportionable to the fee which they receive ...
... humour : Iras & verba locant . " Men that hire out their words and anger ; " that are more or less paffionate according as they are paid for it , and allow their client a quantity of wrath proportionable to the fee which they receive ...
Page 28
... humour in an author , he is often very mifchievous without de- figning to be fo . For which reafon I always lay it . " down as a rule , that an indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill - naqured one ; for as the latter will only ...
... humour in an author , he is often very mifchievous without de- figning to be fo . For which reafon I always lay it . " down as a rule , that an indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill - naqured one ; for as the latter will only ...
Page 39
... humour , familiarity , and innocence of a fifter ; infomuch that he would often fay to her , " Dear Daphne , wert thou but " as handsome as Lætitia " ----- She received fuch language with that ingenuous and pleasing mirth , which is ...
... humour , familiarity , and innocence of a fifter ; infomuch that he would often fay to her , " Dear Daphne , wert thou but " as handsome as Lætitia " ----- She received fuch language with that ingenuous and pleasing mirth , which is ...
Page 41
... humour . It is indeed much easier to defcribe what is not humour , than what is ; and very difficult to define it otherwife than , as Cowley has done wit , by ne- gatives . Were I to give my own notions of it , I would deliver them ...
... humour . It is indeed much easier to defcribe what is not humour , than what is ; and very difficult to define it otherwife than , as Cowley has done wit , by ne- gatives . Were I to give my own notions of it , I would deliver them ...
Page 42
... Humour differs from the True , as a monkey does from a man . First of all , He is exceedingly given to little apifh tricks and buffoonries . Secondly , He fo much delights in mimickry , that it is all one to him whether he expofes by it ...
... Humour differs from the True , as a monkey does from a man . First of all , He is exceedingly given to little apifh tricks and buffoonries . Secondly , He fo much delights in mimickry , that it is all one to him whether he expofes by it ...
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