The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, 第 1 卷J. Crissy, 1824 |
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第 31 頁
... look sat- isfied , all the young women profess love to him , and the young men are glad of his company ; when he comes into a house , he calls the servants by their names , and talks all the way up stairs to a visit . I must not omit ...
... look sat- isfied , all the young women profess love to him , and the young men are glad of his company ; when he comes into a house , he calls the servants by their names , and talks all the way up stairs to a visit . I must not omit ...
第 43 頁
... looks from well - dressed gentlemen and ladies , as a poet would bestow upon one of his audience . There are so many gratifications attend this public sort of obscurity , that some little distastes I daily receive have lost their ...
... looks from well - dressed gentlemen and ladies , as a poet would bestow upon one of his audience . There are so many gratifications attend this public sort of obscurity , that some little distastes I daily receive have lost their ...
第 45 頁
... look the force , of language . ' It was prudence to turn away my eyes from this object , and therefore I turned them to the thoughtless creatufes who make up the lump of that sex , and move a knowing eye no more than the portraiture of ...
... look the force , of language . ' It was prudence to turn away my eyes from this object , and therefore I turned them to the thoughtless creatufes who make up the lump of that sex , and move a knowing eye no more than the portraiture of ...
第 49 頁
... look up- on without catching cold , and indeed without much danger of being burnt ; for there are ral engines filled with water , and ready to play at a minute's warning , in case any such accident should happen . However , as I have a ...
... look up- on without catching cold , and indeed without much danger of being burnt ; for there are ral engines filled with water , and ready to play at a minute's warning , in case any such accident should happen . However , as I have a ...
第 50 頁
... look into the writings of the old Italians , such as Cicero and Virgil , we shall find that the English writers , in their way of thinking , and expressing them- selves , resemble those authors much more than the modern Italians pretend ...
... look into the writings of the old Italians , such as Cicero and Virgil , we shall find that the English writers , in their way of thinking , and expressing them- selves , resemble those authors much more than the modern Italians pretend ...
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第 30 頁 - ... 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 wrong.
第 28 頁 - In short, wherever I see a cluster of people I always mix with them, though I never open my lips but in my own club. Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind than as one of the species...
第 31 頁 - His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company. When he comes into a house he calls the servants by their names, and talks all the way upstairs to a visit.
第 28 頁 - I am very well versed in the theory of a husband, or a father, and can discern the errors in the economy, 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.
第 217 頁 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
第 73 頁 - I have often thought there has not been sufficient pains taken in finding out proper employments and diversions for the fair ones. Their amusements seem contrived for them, rather as they are women than as they are reasonable creatures ; and are more adapted to the sex than to the species.
第 36 頁 - ... been in the female world: as other men of his age will take notice to you what such a minister said upon such and such an occasion, he will 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...
第 27 頁 - Cocoa-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 144 頁 - Some of them were covered with such extravagant epitaphs, that if it were possible for the dead person to be acquainted with them, he would blush at the praises which his friends have bestowed upon him. There are others so excessively modest, that they deliver the character of the person departed in Greek or Hebrew, and by that means are not understood once in a twelvemonth. In the poetical quarter, I found there were poets who had no monuments, and monuments which had no poets.
第 30 頁 - However, this humour creates him no enemies, for he does nothing with sourness or obstinacy; and his being unconfined to modes and forms makes him but the readier and more capable to please and oblige all who know him.