The British Essayists: SpectatorLionel Thomas Berguer T. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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... telling Stories of Ghosts to Chil- dren Nicolini 13. Conduct of the Lions at the Opera - Merit of · Addison . Addison . Steele . 14. Letters from the Lion - from an Under - sexton on the Masquerade - Puppet Show 15. Story of Cleanthe ...
... telling Stories of Ghosts to Chil- dren Nicolini 13. Conduct of the Lions at the Opera - Merit of · Addison . Addison . Steele . 14. Letters from the Lion - from an Under - sexton on the Masquerade - Puppet Show 15. Story of Cleanthe ...
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... Eustace Budgell , who might have better dedicated it to Will Wimble . achievements ; for which reason I look upon you as 12 ORIGINAL DEDICATIONS . Inkle and Yarico Steele Custom of telling Stories of Ghosts to Chil- dren Nicolini.
... Eustace Budgell , who might have better dedicated it to Will Wimble . achievements ; for which reason I look upon you as 12 ORIGINAL DEDICATIONS . Inkle and Yarico Steele Custom of telling Stories of Ghosts to Chil- dren Nicolini.
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... tell you that the free and disengaged be- haviour of a fine gentleman makes as many awkward beaux , as the easiness of your favourite hath made insipid poets . At present you are content to aim all your charms at your own spouse ...
... tell you that the free and disengaged be- haviour of a fine gentleman makes as many awkward beaux , as the easiness of your favourite hath made insipid poets . At present you are content to aim all your charms at your own spouse ...
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... tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms ; for true power is to be got by arts and industry . He will often argue , that if this part of our trade were well cultivated , we should gain from one nation ...
... tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms ; for true power is to be got by arts and industry . He will often argue , that if this part of our trade were well cultivated , we should gain from one nation ...
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... tell you , when the Duke of Monmouth danced at court , such a woman was then smitten , another was taken with him at the head of his troop in the Park . In all these important rela- tions , he has ever about the same time received a ...
... tell you , when the Duke of Monmouth danced at court , such a woman was then smitten , another was taken with him at the head of his troop in the Park . In all these important rela- tions , he has ever about the same time received a ...
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acquaint acrostics ADDISON admiration Æneid aëre agreeable appear assembly audience battle of Almanza beauty BUDGELL character club coffee-house conversation delight discourse dress endeavour English entertainment envious Ephesian Matron eyes folly genius gentleman George Etherege give heard hearing sense heart hero honour Hudibras humble servant humour impudence innocent Italian kind King lady laugh letter likewise lion live looked lover mankind manner MARCH March 15 MARCH 21 means merit mind minuet nature never night obliged observed occasion opera OVID paper particular passion perpetual entertainment person Pict piece play playhouse pleased poet present raillery reader reason Roger de Coverley says scenes sense shew Sir Roger speak SPECTATOR stage talk taste TATLER tell thing thorough-bass thought tion told town tragedy verse virtue whole woman women word writings young
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第 135 頁 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
第 19 頁 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
第 226 頁 - 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.
第 132 頁 - I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey ; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable.
第 133 頁 - ... 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.
第 48 頁 - Lacedemonians, that honest people, more virtuous than polite, rose up all to a man, and with the greatest respect received him among them. The Athenians being suddenly touched with a sense of the Spartan virtue, and their own degeneracy, gave a thunder of applause ; and. the old man cried out, " The Athenians understand what is good, but the Lacedemonians practise it
第 22 頁 - 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.
第 29 頁 - ... the gallant Will Honeycomb, a gentleman who, according to his years, should be in the decline of his life, but having ever been very careful of his person, and always had a very easy fortune, time has made but very little impression, either by wrinkles on his forehead, or traces in his brain.
第 210 頁 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon...
第 100 頁 - English; and the angry sounds that were turned to rage in the original, were made to express pity in the translation. It oftentimes happened, likewise, that the finest notes in the air fell upon the most insignificant words in the sentence. I have known the word "and" pursued through the whole gamut; have been entertained with many a melodious "the;" and have heard the most beautiful graces, quavers, and divisions bestowed upon "then," "for," and "from," to the eternal honour of our English particles.