The Spectator: ...J. Coote, 1778 |
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Strana 19
... eye to fe- parate interefts , and party principles . The thoughts of the day gave my mind employment for the whole night , fo that I fell infenfibly into a kind of methodical dream , which difpofed all my con- templations into a vifion ...
... eye to fe- parate interefts , and party principles . The thoughts of the day gave my mind employment for the whole night , fo that I fell infenfibly into a kind of methodical dream , which difpofed all my con- templations into a vifion ...
Strana 20
... eye of the virgin that fat upon the throne . Both the fides of the hall were covered with fuch acts of parliament as had been made for the establishment of public funds . The lady feemed to fet an unfpeak- able value upon thefe feveral ...
... eye of the virgin that fat upon the throne . Both the fides of the hall were covered with fuch acts of parliament as had been made for the establishment of public funds . The lady feemed to fet an unfpeak- able value upon thefe feveral ...
Strana 24
... eye ; and having nothing to do with mens paffions or interefts , I can with the greater fagacity con- fider their ... eyes , and the changes of their coun- tenance , their fentiments of the objects before them . I have indulged my ...
... eye ; and having nothing to do with mens paffions or interefts , I can with the greater fagacity con- fider their ... eyes , and the changes of their coun- tenance , their fentiments of the objects before them . I have indulged my ...
Strana 25
... eye towards the next woman to her , WILL fpoke what I looked , according to his romantic imagination , in the ... eyes from this ob- ject , and therefore I turned them to the thoughtless creatures who make up the lump of that fex ...
... eye towards the next woman to her , WILL fpoke what I looked , according to his romantic imagination , in the ... eyes from this ob- ject , and therefore I turned them to the thoughtless creatures who make up the lump of that fex ...
Strana 26
... eyes of lovers fay to each other in my prefence . At the fame time I fhall not think myself obliged , by this pro- mife , to conceal any falfe proteftations which I obferve made by glances in public affemblies ; but endeavour to make ...
... eyes of lovers fay to each other in my prefence . At the fame time I fhall not think myself obliged , by this pro- mife , to conceal any falfe proteftations which I obferve made by glances in public affemblies ; but endeavour to make ...
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admiration Æneid affembly againſt audience beauty becauſe behaviour beſt buſineſs club confideration converfation correfpondents defcribed defign defire difcourfe diverfion drefs endeavour English eyes faid falfe fame fatire fatisfaction fecret feems feen felves fenfe feve feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fign filk fince firft firſt flain fociety fome fomething fometimes foon fpeak fpeech ftage fubject fuch fure gentleman give greateſt heart herſelf himſelf houſe humble fervant humour itſelf kind lady laft laſt lefs likewife lion look mind miſtreſs moft moſt mufic muft muſt myſelf nature obferved occafion opera ourſelves OVID paffion pafs perfon Pharamond Pict pleafed pleaſed pleaſure poet prefent raiſed reader reafon reft reprefent ſcenes ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſpeak SPECTATOR ſtage thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thought tragedy ufual underſtanding uſe verfe whofe whole woman women words writing
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Strana 107 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.
Strana 12 - I have acted in all the parts of my life as a looker-on, which is the character I intend to preserve in this paper.
Strana 106 - I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous minds and gloomy imaginations ; but for my own part, though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view of nature, in her deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones.
Strana 35 - In the midst of these my musings, she desired me to reach her a little salt upon the point of my knife, which I did in such a trepidation and hurry of obedience, that I let it drop by the way, at which she immediately startled, and said it fell towards her.
Strana 273 - ... common interest. Almost every degree produces something peculiar to it ; the food often grows in one country, and the sauce in another. The fruits of Portugal are corrected by the products of Barbadoes. The infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian cane.
Strana 30 - ... stage might be as much infested with mice, as the prince of the island was before the cat's arrival upon it; for which reason he would not permit it to be acted in his house. And indeed I cannot blame him: for, as he said very well upon that occasion, I do not hear that any of the performers in our opera pretend to equal the famous pied piper, who made all the mice of a great town in Germany follow his music, and by that means cleared the place of those little noxious animals.
Strana 17 - With this candour does the gentleman speak of himself and others. The same frankness runs through all his conversation. The military part of his life has...
Strana 9 - 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 200 - I could not observe any circumstance of devotion in their behaviour. There was indeed a man in black, who was mounted above the rest, and seemed to utter something with a great deal of vehemence ; but as for those underneath him, instead of paying their worship to the deity of the place, they were most of them bowing and curtseying to one another, and a considerable number of them fast asleep.
Strana 275 - So, on the contrary, an ordinary Song or Ballad that is the Delight of the common People, cannot fail to please all such Readers as are not unqualified for the Entertainment by their Affectation or Ignorance; and the Reason is plain, because the same Paintings of Nature which recommend it to the most ordinary Reader, will appear Beautiful to the most refined.