The Spectator, Svazek 1Alexander Chalmers D. Appleton and Company, 1853 |
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... language any assumption of character more faithful than that of the honest butler , nor a more irresistible stroke of nature than the circumstance of the book re- ceived by Sir Andrew Freeport . " To Sir Roger , " Continues Dr. Johnson ...
... language any assumption of character more faithful than that of the honest butler , nor a more irresistible stroke of nature than the circumstance of the book re- ceived by Sir Andrew Freeport . " To Sir Roger , " Continues Dr. Johnson ...
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... language . Of Addison's humour so much has been said , that it would not be easy to vary the praises that have been lavished for near a century . " As a describer of life and manners , he must be allowed to stand perhaps the first of ...
... language . Of Addison's humour so much has been said , that it would not be easy to vary the praises that have been lavished for near a century . " As a describer of life and manners , he must be allowed to stand perhaps the first of ...
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... language better understood , style has been regulated by a fashion to which we know not how to place limits . Of late the demand has been consider- able for lofty periods and splendid imagery , verg- ing sometimes on the excellence of ...
... language better understood , style has been regulated by a fashion to which we know not how to place limits . Of late the demand has been consider- able for lofty periods and splendid imagery , verg- ing sometimes on the excellence of ...
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... language can we find a word to ex- press the talent of which we are now speaking . As the Spectator , very soon after its being col- lected into volumes , became one of the " first books by which both sexes are initiated in the ...
... language can we find a word to ex- press the talent of which we are now speaking . As the Spectator , very soon after its being col- lected into volumes , became one of the " first books by which both sexes are initiated in the ...
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... language ; awkward phrases ; redundancies ; superlatives for compara- tives ; double comparatives ; adjectives for adverbs ; any for either ; either for each ; & c . & c . ; the relative not agreeing with its antecedent ; verbs in the ...
... language ; awkward phrases ; redundancies ; superlatives for compara- tives ; double comparatives ; adjectives for adverbs ; any for either ; either for each ; & c . & c . ; the relative not agreeing with its antecedent ; verbs in the ...
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Strana 143 - 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. How often, from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to others...
Strana 81 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Strana 290 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Strana 84 - I am very well versed in the theory of an 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.
Strana 309 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Strana 279 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
Strana 524 - Yet innocence and virgin modesty, Her virtue, and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won, Not obvious, not obtrusive, but...
Strana 428 - With that there came an arrow keen Out of an English bow, Which struck Earl Douglas to the heart, A deep and deadly blow ; Who never spoke more words than these : Fight on, my merry men all ; For why, my life is at an end, Lord Percy sees my fall.
Strana 82 - Whether this might proceed from a lawsuit which was then depending in the family, or my father's being a justice of the peace, I cannot determine; for I am not so vain as to think it presaged any dignity that I should arrive at in my future life, though that was the interpretation which the neighborhood put upon it.
Strana 87 - THE first of our society is a gentleman of Worcestershire, of an 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.