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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... merit of beginning and carrying on the Tatler , the first periodical work in England of which the subjects were literature , morality , and familiar life . Before his time we had many periodical publications on political and religious ...
... merit of beginning and carrying on the Tatler , the first periodical work in England of which the subjects were literature , morality , and familiar life . Before his time we had many periodical publications on political and religious ...
第 vi 頁
... merit of highly improving a plan which before was imper- fectly sketched . But the merit of Steele is not confined to the mere planning of the periodical works which he published ; much praise is also due to him for the papers which he ...
... merit of highly improving a plan which before was imper- fectly sketched . But the merit of Steele is not confined to the mere planning of the periodical works which he published ; much praise is also due to him for the papers which he ...
第 xi 頁
... merit of Mr. Addison can not be too highly extoll- ed . His style has been always esteemed a model of excellence by men of taste . His humour has a charm which can not be described ; his philosophy is rational , and his morality is pure ...
... merit of Mr. Addison can not be too highly extoll- ed . His style has been always esteemed a model of excellence by men of taste . His humour has a charm which can not be described ; his philosophy is rational , and his morality is pure ...
第 xiv 頁
... merit as to introduce him not only to the friendship of Addison , Pope , Congreve , Rowe , and other polite writers , but also to the patronage of the greatest men in the kingdom . He was made secretary to the commissioners of the peace ...
... merit as to introduce him not only to the friendship of Addison , Pope , Congreve , Rowe , and other polite writers , but also to the patronage of the greatest men in the kingdom . He was made secretary to the commissioners of the peace ...
第 xv 頁
... merit was such as to command the praises as well of those who condemned as of those who approved the treaty of Utrecht . At the ar- rival of King George I. he wrote The Royal Pro- gress , which is inserted in the Spectator No. 620 , and ...
... merit was such as to command the praises as well of those who condemned as of those who approved the treaty of Utrecht . At the ar- rival of King George I. he wrote The Royal Pro- gress , which is inserted in the Spectator No. 620 , and ...
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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.