The Spectator, Svazek 2Tonson, 1729 |
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Strana 13
... young : and the Boy is to marry as foon as he is at Age to redeem it , and find Portions for his Sifters . This , forfooth , is no great Inconvenience to him ; for he may Wench , keep a pub- lick Table , or feed Dogs , like a worthy ...
... young : and the Boy is to marry as foon as he is at Age to redeem it , and find Portions for his Sifters . This , forfooth , is no great Inconvenience to him ; for he may Wench , keep a pub- lick Table , or feed Dogs , like a worthy ...
Strana 29
... young Girls about Town ... I need be particular in nothing but the Make of my Face , which has the Misfortune to be exactly Oval . This I take to proceed from a Temper that naturally inclines me both to speak and to hear . WITH this ...
... young Girls about Town ... I need be particular in nothing but the Make of my Face , which has the Misfortune to be exactly Oval . This I take to proceed from a Temper that naturally inclines me both to speak and to hear . WITH this ...
Strana 30
... young Merchants too long near Change , and another Fair one who keeps the Students at her Houfe when they fhould be at Study . It would be worth your while to fee how the Idola- ' ters alternately offer Incenfe to their Idols , and what ...
... young Merchants too long near Change , and another Fair one who keeps the Students at her Houfe when they fhould be at Study . It would be worth your while to fee how the Idola- ' ters alternately offer Incenfe to their Idols , and what ...
Strana 43
... young Lady gave me of the Loves of a Family in Town , which fhall be name- lefs ; or rather for the better Sound and Elevation of the History , instead of Mr. and Mrs , fuch - a - one , 1 fhall call them by feigned Names . Without ...
... young Lady gave me of the Loves of a Family in Town , which fhall be name- lefs ; or rather for the better Sound and Elevation of the History , instead of Mr. and Mrs , fuch - a - one , 1 fhall call them by feigned Names . Without ...
Strana 44
... young Women of this Age , who affume to themselves an Authority of carrying all things before them , as if they were Poffeffors of the Efteem of Mankind ; and all , who were but a Year before them in the World , were neglected or de ...
... young Women of this Age , who affume to themselves an Authority of carrying all things before them , as if they were Poffeffors of the Efteem of Mankind ; and all , who were but a Year before them in the World , were neglected or de ...
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Strana 286 - I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it.
Strana 289 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.
Strana 110 - ... subjects, hear their duties explained to them, and join together in adoration of the Supreme Being. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week, not only as it refreshes in their minds the notions of religion, but as it puts both the sexes upon appearing in their most agreeable forms, and exerting all such qualities as are apt to give them a figure in the eye of the village.
Strana 112 - As soon as the Sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the Church. The Knight walks down from his Seat in the Chancel between a double row of his Tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side; and every now and then...
Strana 153 - Upon his first rising the court was hushed, and a general whisper ran among the country people, that Sir Roger < was up. ' The speech he made was so little to the purpose, that I shall not trouble my readers with an account of it; and I believe was not so much designed by the knight himself to inform the court, as to give him a figure in my eye, and keep up his credit in the country.
Strana 112 - ... dazzled with riches, that they pay as much deference to the understanding of a man of an estate as of a man of learning...
Strana 110 - It is certain the country people would soon degenerate into a kind of savages and barbarians, were there not such frequent returns of a stated time in which the whole village meet together with their best faces and in their cleanliest habits to converse with one another upon indifferent subjects, hear their duties explained to them, and join together in adoration of the supreme Being.
Strana 96 - ... he is every day soliciting me for something in behalf of one or other of my tenants his parishioners. There has not been a lawsuit in the parish since he has lived among them ; if any dispute arises they apply themselves to him for the decision ; if they do not acquiesce in his judgment, which I think never happened above once or twice at most, they appeal to me.
Strana 286 - What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other? What thou seest...
Strana 101 - Country, and is very famous for finding out a Hare. He is extremely well versed in all the little Handicrafts of an idle Man: He makes a May-fly to a Miracle ; and furnishes the whole Country with Angle-Rods.