The Spectator [by J. Addison and others] with sketches of the lives of the authors, and explanatory notes. 12 vols. [in 6]., Volumes 1-21853 |
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... agreeable amusements , when confined by bad health , to which he was often subject . the age of 20 he published a poem on the peace of Ryswick , which was received with much ap- plause . This was soon succeeded by others ; which ...
... agreeable amusements , when confined by bad health , to which he was often subject . the age of 20 he published a poem on the peace of Ryswick , which was received with much ap- plause . This was soon succeeded by others ; which ...
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... agreeable ; as few of his thoughts are drawn from business , they are most of them fit for conversation . His taste of books is a little too just for the age he lives in ; he has read all , but approves of very few . His familiarity ...
... agreeable ; as few of his thoughts are drawn from business , they are most of them fit for conversation . His taste of books is a little too just for the age he lives in ; he has read all , but approves of very few . His familiarity ...
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... agreeable to the company ; for he is never overbear- ing , though accustomed to command men in the utmost degree below him ; nor ever too obsequi- · ous , from a habit of obeying men highly above him . * But , that our society may not ...
... agreeable to the company ; for he is never overbear- ing , though accustomed to command men in the utmost degree below him ; nor ever too obsequi- · ous , from a habit of obeying men highly above him . * But , that our society may not ...
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... agreeable . If I found consolation among such , I was as much disquieted by the incapacity of others . These are mortals who have a certain curiosity without power of reflection , and perused my papers like spectators rather than ...
... agreeable . If I found consolation among such , I was as much disquieted by the incapacity of others . These are mortals who have a certain curiosity without power of reflection , and perused my papers like spectators rather than ...
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... agreeable entertainment for the winter - season , the opera of Rinaldo is filled with thunder and lightning , illuminations and fireworks ; which the audience may look up- on without catching cold , and indeed without much danger of ...
... agreeable entertainment for the winter - season , the opera of Rinaldo is filled with thunder and lightning , illuminations and fireworks ; which the audience may look up- on without catching cold , and indeed without much danger of ...
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Page 242 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, 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 155 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Page 182 - Manlike, but different sex, so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the World, seem'd now Mean, or in her summ'd up...
Page 260 - ROGER'S family, because it consists of sober and staid persons; for as the knight is the best master in the world, he seldom changes his servants; and as he is beloved by all about him, his servants never care for leaving him. By this means his domestics are all in years, and grown old with their master. You would take his valet...
Page 262 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Page 183 - Yet innocence and virgin modesty, Her virtue, and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won, Not obvious, not obtrusive, but...
Page 30 - 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.
Page 262 - At his first settling with me I made him a present of all the good sermons which have been printed in English, and only begged of him that every Sunday he would pronounce one of them in the pulpit. Accordingly he has digested them into such a series that they follow one another naturally, and make a continued system of practical divinity.
Page 34 - ... both in town and country, a great lover of mankind; but there is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour, that he is rather beloved than esteemed: 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...
Page 152 - ... 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.