The Spectator, Volume 2J. Tonson, 1801 - English essays |
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Page 54
... Picts and the British . There does not need any great discernment to judge which are which . The British have a lively animated aspect ; the Picts , though never so beautiful , have dead uninformed countenances . The muscles of a real ...
... Picts and the British . There does not need any great discernment to judge which are which . The British have a lively animated aspect ; the Picts , though never so beautiful , have dead uninformed countenances . The muscles of a real ...
Page 55
... Pict , though she takes all that pains to invite the approach of lovers , is obliged to keep them at a certain distance : a sigh in a languishing lover , if fetched too near her , would dis- solve a feature ; and a kiss snatched by a ...
... Pict , though she takes all that pains to invite the approach of lovers , is obliged to keep them at a certain distance : a sigh in a languishing lover , if fetched too near her , would dis- solve a feature ; and a kiss snatched by a ...
Page 56
... Pict stood before him in the utmost confusion , with the prettiest smirk imaginable on the finished side of her face , pale as ashes on the other . HONEYCOMB seized all her gally - pots and washes , and carried off his handkerchief full ...
... Pict stood before him in the utmost confusion , with the prettiest smirk imaginable on the finished side of her face , pale as ashes on the other . HONEYCOMB seized all her gally - pots and washes , and carried off his handkerchief full ...
Page 57
How like is this lady , and how unlike is a Pict , to that description Dr. DONNE gives of his mistress ? 66 -Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks , and so distinctly wrought , That one would almost say her body thought ...
How like is this lady , and how unlike is a Pict , to that description Dr. DONNE gives of his mistress ? 66 -Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks , and so distinctly wrought , That one would almost say her body thought ...
Page 65
... Pict his grandsire won . " * Here , if the poet had not been vivacious , as well as stupid , he could not , in the warmth and hurry of non- sense , have been capable of forgetting , that neither Prince VOL . II , E The Hon . EDW ...
... Pict his grandsire won . " * Here , if the poet had not been vivacious , as well as stupid , he could not , in the warmth and hurry of non- sense , have been capable of forgetting , that neither Prince VOL . II , E The Hon . EDW ...
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