The Spectator, Svazek 1J.Crissy, 1824 |
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Strana 17
... seems to have been more intent upon the figure of his poem , than upon the sense of it . The pair of wings consist of twelve verses , or rather feathers , every verse decreasing gradual- ly in its measure according to its situation in ...
... seems to have been more intent upon the figure of his poem , than upon the sense of it . The pair of wings consist of twelve verses , or rather feathers , every verse decreasing gradual- ly in its measure according to its situation in ...
Strana 21
... seem to despise . For this reason we often find them endeavouring at works of fancy , which cost them infinite pangs in the production . The truth of it is , a man had better be a galley slave than a wit , were one to gain that title by ...
... seem to despise . For this reason we often find them endeavouring at works of fancy , which cost them infinite pangs in the production . The truth of it is , a man had better be a galley slave than a wit , were one to gain that title by ...
Strana 24
... seems to have been a very extraordinary linguist , for she answers the per- sons she talks with in Latin , Greek and Hebrew , according as she found the syllables which she was to repeat in any of those learned languages . Hudibras , in ...
... seems to have been a very extraordinary linguist , for she answers the per- sons she talks with in Latin , Greek and Hebrew , according as she found the syllables which she was to repeat in any of those learned languages . Hudibras , in ...
Strana 27
... seems was distorted , and had his limbs set in places that did not properly belong to them , the ana- gram of a man . When the anagrammatist takes a name to work upon , he considers it at first as a mine not broken up , which will not ...
... seems was distorted , and had his limbs set in places that did not properly belong to them , the ana- gram of a man . When the anagrammatist takes a name to work upon , he considers it at first as a mine not broken up , which will not ...
Strana 33
... seem to have given a kind of sanction to this piece of false wit , that all the writers of rhetoric have treated of punning with very great respect , and divided the several kinds of it into hard names , that are reckoned among the ...
... seem to have given a kind of sanction to this piece of false wit , that all the writers of rhetoric have treated of punning with very great respect , and divided the several kinds of it into hard names , that are reckoned among the ...
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acquaintance acrostics Addison admired agreeable anagrams ancient appear beautiful behaviour body Brunetta called Cicero club conversation court creature daugh discourse Dorimant dress DRYDEN Earl Douglas endeavour entertainment Epidaurus Epig epigram Eucrate eyes face fair sex false wit favour figure Flavia fortune gentleman give greatest hand head heard heart Honoria honour Hudibras humour idol kind of wit king lady learned letter lived look lord lover mankind manner master mind mistress Monsieur nature neral never notion numbers observe occasion Ovid paper particular passion person Pharamond pleased pleasure poem poet present prince privy counsellors racter reader reason rhymes ROSCOMMON sense serjeant at law sir Roger sorrow speak SPECTATOR tell temper thing thou thought tion Tmolus told Tryphiodorus turn verses VIRG Virgil virtue Whig whole woman women words writing young
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Strana 252 - I intend to form several of my ensuing speculations. Sir Roger, who is very well acquainted with my humour, lets me rise and go to bed when I please, dine at his own table or in my chamber as I think fit, sit still and say nothing without bidding me be merry.
Strana 105 - The noble earl was slain. He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth-yard long Up to the head drew he...
Strana 81 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung by some blind crowder with no rougher voice than rude style ; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?
Strana 252 - HAVING often received an invitation from my friend Sir Roger de Coverley, to pass away a month with him in the country, I last week accompanied him thither, and am settled with him for some time at his countryhouse, where I intend to form several of my ensuing speculations. Sir Roger, who is very well acquainted with my...
Strana 255 - As Sir Roger was going on in his story, the gentleman we were talking of came up to us ; and upon the knight's asking him who preached to-morrow (for it was Saturday night), told us, the Bishop of St. Asaph in the morning, and Dr. South in the afternoon.
Strana 235 - Fan, according to the most fashionable airs and motions that are now practised at Court. The Ladies who carry Fans under me are drawn up twice a day in my great Hall, where they are instructed in the use of their Arms, and exercised by the following words of command: Handle your Fans, Unfurl your Fans, Discharge your Fans, Ground your Fans, Recover your Fans, Flutter your Fans.
Strana 78 - The single dress of a woman of quality is often the product of an hundred climates. The muff and the fan come together from the different ends of the earth. The scarf is sent from the torrid zone, and the tippet from beneath the pole. The brocade petticoat rises out of the mines of Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Indostan.
Strana 253 - My chief companion, when Sir Roger is diverting himself in the woods or the fields, is a very venerable man who is ever with Sir Roger, and has lived at his house in the nature of a chaplain above thirty years. This gentleman is a person of good sense and some learning, of a very regular life and obliging conversation...
Strana 254 - I have given him the parsonage of the parish ; and because I know his value have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than perhaps he thinks he is. He has now been with me thirty years; and though he does not know I have taken notice of it, has never in all that time asked...
Strana 222 - ... hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.