The SpectatorPutnam, 1856 |
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... Temper in the Sexes - Female Levity , 129. Fashions in Dress - How imitated in the Country , 130. Interview of the Spectator and Sir Roger with a Gang of Gypsies , · · · 131. Opinions entertained of the Spectator in the Country- Letter ...
... Temper in the Sexes - Female Levity , 129. Fashions in Dress - How imitated in the Country , 130. Interview of the Spectator and Sir Roger with a Gang of Gypsies , · · · 131. Opinions entertained of the Spectator in the Country- Letter ...
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... temper being naturally jovial , he at last got over it , 1 Sir Roger had doubtless chosen this fashionable locality in the " fine gentleman " era of his career . We shall presently see , that on his sub- sequent visits to town , he ...
... temper being naturally jovial , he at last got over it , 1 Sir Roger had doubtless chosen this fashionable locality in the " fine gentleman " era of his career . We shall presently see , that on his sub- sequent visits to town , he ...
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... temper wit with morality , that my readers may , if pos sible , both ways find their account in the speculation of the day . And to the end that their virtue and discretion may not be short , transient , intermitting starts of thought ...
... temper wit with morality , that my readers may , if pos sible , both ways find their account in the speculation of the day . And to the end that their virtue and discretion may not be short , transient , intermitting starts of thought ...
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... temper over - did his part , and would not suffer himself to be killed so easily as he ought to have done ; besides , it was observed of him , that he grew more surly every time he came out of the lion , and having dropt some words in ...
... temper over - did his part , and would not suffer himself to be killed so easily as he ought to have done ; besides , it was observed of him , that he grew more surly every time he came out of the lion , and having dropt some words in ...
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... temper is made out of such a happy mixture of the mild and the choleric , that he outdoes both his predecessors , and has drawn together greater audiences than have been known in the memory of man . I must not conclude my narrative ...
... temper is made out of such a happy mixture of the mild and the choleric , that he outdoes both his predecessors , and has drawn together greater audiences than have been known in the memory of man . I must not conclude my narrative ...
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Page 48 - 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.
Page 12 - It is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him.
Page 83 - 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.
Page 381 - I could discover nothing in it; but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Page 381 - I observed some with scimitars in their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trap-doors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped, had they not been thus forced upon them. "The genius, seeing me indulge myself in this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it. ' Take thine eyes off the bridge,' said he, ' and tell me if thou yet seest anything thou dost not comprehend.' Upon looking up,...
Page 220 - The stout Earl of Northumberland, A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer's days to take; The chiefest harts in Chevy-Chase To kill and bear away.
Page 289 - ... his virtues, as well as imperfections, are as it were tinged by a certain extravagance, which makes them particularly his, and distinguishes them from those of other men. This cast of mind, as it is generally very innocent in itself, so it renders his conversation highly agreeable, and more delightful than the same degree of sense and virtue would appear in their common and ordinary colours.
Page 6 - 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 stockjobbers at Jonathan's.
Page 379 - I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life ; consider it attentively.
Page 302 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.