The Spectator, no. 1-314Harper & Brothers, No. 82 Cliff-Street., 1837 - Bookbinding |
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... pleased- different Characters , in a Tour through the Metropolis 496 Letters on the conduct of gay and foppish Fathers - on Swinging Steele Steele 455 Letters on Education - from the Hus- band of a Scold - on Money - the use of Similes ...
... pleased- different Characters , in a Tour through the Metropolis 496 Letters on the conduct of gay and foppish Fathers - on Swinging Steele Steele 455 Letters on Education - from the Hus- band of a Scold - on Money - the use of Similes ...
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... pleased with them as he would have been with the Leges Convivales of Ben Jonson , the regulations of an old Roman club , cited by Lipsius , or the rules of a Symposium in an ancient Greek_au- I cannot forbear concluding this paper with ...
... pleased with them as he would have been with the Leges Convivales of Ben Jonson , the regulations of an old Roman club , cited by Lipsius , or the rules of a Symposium in an ancient Greek_au- I cannot forbear concluding this paper with ...
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... pleased to others that had been conjured into the Red- think that I am always engaged with such sea , for disturbing people's rest , and draw - an innumerable society in searching out the ing their curtains at midnight , with many other ...
... pleased to others that had been conjured into the Red- think that I am always engaged with such sea , for disturbing people's rest , and draw - an innumerable society in searching out the ing their curtains at midnight , with many other ...
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... pleased : For , Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen , both when we wake and when we sleep ; All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night . How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have ...
... pleased : For , Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen , both when we wake and when we sleep ; All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night . How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have ...
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... pleased with trifles . illustrious in themselves , and useful to WHEN I was in France , I used to gaze others . When women are thus perpetually with great astonishment at the splendid dazzling one another's imaginations , and equipages ...
... pleased with trifles . illustrious in themselves , and useful to WHEN I was in France , I used to gaze others . When women are thus perpetually with great astonishment at the splendid dazzling one another's imaginations , and equipages ...
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Page 236 - I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place. My heart melted away in secret raptures. ' I had been often told that the rock before me was the haunt of a Genius ; and that several had been entertained with music who had passed by it, but never heard that the musician had before made himself visible.
Page 103 - ... for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another, ideas, wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Page 172 - I AM always very well pleased with a country Sunday, and think, if keeping holy the seventh day were only a human institution, it would be the best method that could have been thought of for the polishing and civilizing of mankind. It is certain, the country people would soon degenerate into a kind of savages and barbarians, were there not such frequent returns of a stated time, in which the whole village meet together with their best faces, and in their cleanliest habits, to converse with one another...
Page 236 - I ascended the high hills of Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains. I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and, passing from one thought to another,
Page 236 - As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge into the great tide that flowed underneath it: and upon farther examination, perceived there were innumerable trap-doors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon, but they fell through them into the tide, and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many...
Page 172 - Foils that rather set off than blemish his good Qualities. As soon as the Sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the Church. The Knight walks down from his Seat in the Chancel between a double row of his Tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side; and every now and then inquires how such an one's Wife, or Mother, or Son, or Father do, whom he does not see at Church; which is understood as a secret Reprimand to the Person that is absent.
Page 262 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me; because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame; I was a father to the poor; and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Page 115 - For these reasons there are not more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants. They knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good offices, distribute the gifts of nature, find work for the poor, add wealth to the rich, and magnificence to the great.
Page 237 - Upon looking up, what mean, said I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time ? I See vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures, several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches.
Page 114 - Nature seems to have taken a particular care to disseminate her blessings among the different regions of the world, with an eye to this mutual intercourse and traffic among mankind, that the natives of the several parts of the globe might have a kind of dependence upon one another, and be united together by their common interest.