The Spectator, Volume 4J. and R. Tonson, 1767 |
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Page 41
... beauty grows wrinkled while we are yet gazing at her . The witty man finks into an humourift imperceptibly , for want of reflecting that all things around him are in a flux , and continually chang- ing thus he is in the fpace of ten or ...
... beauty grows wrinkled while we are yet gazing at her . The witty man finks into an humourift imperceptibly , for want of reflecting that all things around him are in a flux , and continually chang- ing thus he is in the fpace of ten or ...
Page 43
... beauty , and did not at my firft approaches feem to have any averfion to me ; but as my natural taciturnity hindered me from fhewing myself to the best advantage , the by degrees began to look upon me as a very filly fellow , and being ...
... beauty , and did not at my firft approaches feem to have any averfion to me ; but as my natural taciturnity hindered me from fhewing myself to the best advantage , the by degrees began to look upon me as a very filly fellow , and being ...
Page 55
... beauty , and in fuch a manner as difpofes the reader for the time to a pleafing forgetfulnefs , or negligence of the particu- lar hurry of life in which he is engaged , together with a longing for that ftate which he is charmed with in ...
... beauty , and in fuch a manner as difpofes the reader for the time to a pleafing forgetfulnefs , or negligence of the particu- lar hurry of life in which he is engaged , together with a longing for that ftate which he is charmed with in ...
Page 61
... beauty in every face , that I found them all to be English . Such eyes and lips , cheeks and foreheads , could be the growth of no other country . The complexion of their faces hindered me from obferving any farther the colour of their ...
... beauty in every face , that I found them all to be English . Such eyes and lips , cheeks and foreheads , could be the growth of no other country . The complexion of their faces hindered me from obferving any farther the colour of their ...
Page 63
... beauty ; which they may certainly do , if they will be as industrious to cultivate their minds , as they are to adorn their bo- dies in the mean while I fhall recommend to their most ferious confideration the faying of an old Greek poet ...
... beauty ; which they may certainly do , if they will be as industrious to cultivate their minds , as they are to adorn their bo- dies in the mean while I fhall recommend to their most ferious confideration the faying of an old Greek poet ...
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