The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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... fhort , we hear from all Hands that you are thoroughly reconciled to your dirty Acres , and have not too much Wit to look into your own Estate .. AFTER having spoken thus much of my PATRON , I muft take the Privilege of an Author in ...
... fhort , we hear from all Hands that you are thoroughly reconciled to your dirty Acres , and have not too much Wit to look into your own Estate .. AFTER having spoken thus much of my PATRON , I muft take the Privilege of an Author in ...
Strana 13
... fhort Wait for a Pair of round Shoulders ; and a third cheapning a bad Face for a loft Reputation : But on all thefe Occafions , there was not one of them who did not think the new Blemish , as foon as he had got it into her Poffeffion ...
... fhort Wait for a Pair of round Shoulders ; and a third cheapning a bad Face for a loft Reputation : But on all thefe Occafions , there was not one of them who did not think the new Blemish , as foon as he had got it into her Poffeffion ...
Strana 14
... fhort Face , but he made fuch a grotefque Figure in it , that as I looked upon him I could not forbear laughing at my felf , infomuch that I put my own Face out of Countenance . The poor Gentleman was fo fen- fible of the Ridicule ...
... fhort Face , but he made fuch a grotefque Figure in it , that as I looked upon him I could not forbear laughing at my felf , infomuch that I put my own Face out of Countenance . The poor Gentleman was fo fen- fible of the Ridicule ...
Strana 17
... fhort Face , enquires for her , he shall be admitted and no Queftions ask'd . As this particular Paper shall confift wholly of what I have received from my Correfpondents , I fhall fill up the remaining Part of it with other ...
... fhort Face , enquires for her , he shall be admitted and no Queftions ask'd . As this particular Paper shall confift wholly of what I have received from my Correfpondents , I fhall fill up the remaining Part of it with other ...
Strana 21
... fhort - liv'd a Favourite as his Predeceffors , but had the Pleasure to see himself fucceeded by a long Series of Lovers , who followed the Widow Wildfire to the 37th Year of her Age , at which Time there enfued a Ceffation of ten Years ...
... fhort - liv'd a Favourite as his Predeceffors , but had the Pleasure to see himself fucceeded by a long Series of Lovers , who followed the Widow Wildfire to the 37th Year of her Age , at which Time there enfued a Ceffation of ten Years ...
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Strana 259 - ... all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy. But when, or where ? — This world was made for Caesar.
Strana 37 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Strana 11 - I did not question, came loaded with his crimes; but, upon searching into his bundle, I found that, instead of throwing his guilt from him, he had only laid down his memory. He was followed by another worthless rogue, who flung away his modesty, instead of his ignorance.
Strana 11 - The immoderate breadth of the features made me very much out of humour with my own countenance, upon which I threw it from me like a mask. It happened very luckily that one who stood by me had just before thrown down his visage, which it seems was too long for him.
Strana 67 - to the sun, and water to the diamond. It irradiates every metal, and enriches lead with all the properties of gold. It heightens smoke into flame, flame into light, and light into glory.
Strana 53 - We may assure ourselves that the great Author of nature will not always be as one who is indifferent to any of his creatures.
Strana 134 - ... there is more beauty in the works of a great genius, who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.
Strana 10 - I saw multitudes of old women throw down their wrinkles, and several young ones who stripped themselves of a tawny skin.
Strana 71 - We make provisions for this life, as though it were never to have an end, and for the other life, as though it were never to have a beginning. Should a spirit of superior rank, who is a stranger to human nature, accidentally alight upon the earth, and take a survey of its inhabitants ; what would his notions of us...
Strana 10 - Jupiter, that every mortal should bring in his griefs and calamities, and throw them together in a heap. There was a large plain appointed for this purpose. I took my stand in the centre of it, and saw with a great deal of pleasure the whole human species marching one after another, and throwing down their several loads, which immediately grew up into a prodigious mountain, that seemed to rise above the clouds.