The Spectator: In Eight Volumes. : Vol. I[-VIII].Angier March., 1803 - English literature |
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... ridiculous to draw the country only upon the scenes , and to crowd several parts of the stage with sheep and oxen . This is join- ing together inconsistencies , and making the decora- tion partly real and partly imaginary . I would ...
... ridiculous to draw the country only upon the scenes , and to crowd several parts of the stage with sheep and oxen . This is join- ing together inconsistencies , and making the decora- tion partly real and partly imaginary . I would ...
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... ridiculous as age ! I make this abrupt transition to the mention of this vice more than any other , in order to introduce a little story ; which I think a pretty instance that the most polite age is in danger of being the most vicious ...
... ridiculous as age ! I make this abrupt transition to the mention of this vice more than any other , in order to introduce a little story ; which I think a pretty instance that the most polite age is in danger of being the most vicious ...
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... ridiculous in a visage , and the owner of it thinks it an aspect of dignity , he must be of very great quality to be exempt from raillery : the best expedient therefore is to be pleasant upon himself . Prince Harry and Falstaff , in ...
... ridiculous in a visage , and the owner of it thinks it an aspect of dignity , he must be of very great quality to be exempt from raillery : the best expedient therefore is to be pleasant upon himself . Prince Harry and Falstaff , in ...
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... ridiculous for the ingenious Mrs. " Salmon to have lived at the sign of the trout ; for ' which reason she has erected before her house the ' figure of the fish that is her name - sake . Mr. Bell ' has likewise distinguished himself by ...
... ridiculous for the ingenious Mrs. " Salmon to have lived at the sign of the trout ; for ' which reason she has erected before her house the ' figure of the fish that is her name - sake . Mr. Bell ' has likewise distinguished himself by ...
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... ridiculous to any but each other . When a man comes into the club , he is not obliged to make any introduction to his discourse , but at once , as he is seating himself in his chair , speaks in the thread of his own thoughts , “ She ...
... ridiculous to any but each other . When a man comes into the club , he is not obliged to make any introduction to his discourse , but at once , as he is seating himself in his chair , speaks in the thread of his own thoughts , “ She ...
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Page 58 - ... men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise. 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 we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator...
Page 324 - With that there came an arrow keen Out of an English bow, Which struck Earl Douglas to the heart, A deep and deadly blow ; Who never spoke more words than these : Fight on, my merry men all ; For why, my life is at an end, Lord Percy sees my fall.
Page 8 - The first of our society is a gentleman of Worcestershire, of ancient descent, a baronet, his name Sir Roger de Coverley". His great-grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance" which is called after him. All who know ' that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger. He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world only as he thinks the world is in the...
Page 70 - True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise : it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self; and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Page 6 - I am very well versed in the theory of a husband, or a father, and can discern the errors in the oeconomy, business., and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them; as standers-by discover blots, which are apt to escape those who are in the game.
Page xviii - ... truth. He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principles. He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed. This is an elevation of literary character "above all Greek, above all Roman fame.
Page 318 - Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate; our tables are stored with spices and oils and wines; our rooms are filled with pyramids of china, and adorned with the workmanship of Japan; our morning's draught comes to us from the remotest corners of the earth; we repair our bodies by the drugs of America, and repose ourselves under Indian canopies. My friend Sir Andrew calls the vineyards of France our gardens; the Spice Islands our hotbeds; the Persians our silkweavers; and the Chinese...
Page 196 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Page 4 - I had not been long at the university before I distinguished myself by a most profound silence ; for during the space of eight years, excepting in the public exercises of the college, I scarce uttered the quantity of an hundred words ; and indeed do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole life.
Page 116 - ... 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. After having thus surveyed this great magazine of mortality, as it were, in the lump ; I examined it more particularly by the accounts which I found on several of the monuments...