The Spectator, Svazek 11793 |
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Strana viii
... never wholly lose , while they continue to be among the first books by which both sexes are initiated in the elegancies of knowledge . The Tatler and Spectator reduced the unfet- tled practice of daily intercourse to propriety and ...
... never wholly lose , while they continue to be among the first books by which both sexes are initiated in the elegancies of knowledge . The Tatler and Spectator reduced the unfet- tled practice of daily intercourse to propriety and ...
Strana xx
... never o'ersteps the modesty of nature , nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth . His figures neither divert by distortion , nor amafe by aggra- vation . He copies life with so much fidelity , that he can be hardly said ...
... never o'ersteps the modesty of nature , nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth . His figures neither divert by distortion , nor amafe by aggra- vation . He copies life with so much fidelity , that he can be hardly said ...
Strana xxi
... never rapid , and he never stagnates . His sentences have neither stu- died amplitude , nor affected brevity : his periods , though not diligently rounded , are voluble and easy . Whoever wishes to attain an English style , familiar ...
... never rapid , and he never stagnates . His sentences have neither stu- died amplitude , nor affected brevity : his periods , though not diligently rounded , are voluble and easy . Whoever wishes to attain an English style , familiar ...
Strana 3
... 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 ; by which means I have made myself a speculative statesman , foldier , merchant , and artisan , without ever ...
... 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 ; by which means I have made myself a speculative statesman , foldier , merchant , and artisan , without ever ...
Strana 17
... never enter in the commerce of difcourse with any but my particular friends , and not in public even with them . Such an habit has perhaps kaifed in me uncommon reflections ; but this effect I can- not communicate but by my writings ...
... never enter in the commerce of difcourse with any but my particular friends , and not in public even with them . Such an habit has perhaps kaifed in me uncommon reflections ; but this effect I can- not communicate but by my writings ...
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