The Spectator, Svazek 7J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753 |
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Strana 15
... Nature . Hipparchus was going to marry a common Woman , but being refølv'd to do nothing without the Advice of his Friend Philander , he confulted him upon the Occafion . Philander told him his Mind freely , and reprefented his Miftrefs ...
... Nature . Hipparchus was going to marry a common Woman , but being refølv'd to do nothing without the Advice of his Friend Philander , he confulted him upon the Occafion . Philander told him his Mind freely , and reprefented his Miftrefs ...
Strana 23
... Nature , without affecting the nicer Elegancies of Art . What I am now going to mention , will , perhaps , deferve your Attention more than any thing I have yet faid . I find that in the Difcourfe which I fpoke of at the Beginning of my ...
... Nature , without affecting the nicer Elegancies of Art . What I am now going to mention , will , perhaps , deferve your Attention more than any thing I have yet faid . I find that in the Difcourfe which I fpoke of at the Beginning of my ...
Strana 24
... Nature is in her Defolation , and prefents us with nothing but bleak and barren Profpects , there is fomething unfpeakably chearful in a Spot of Ground which is cover'd with Trees that fmile amidst all the Rigour of Winter , and give us ...
... Nature is in her Defolation , and prefents us with nothing but bleak and barren Profpects , there is fomething unfpeakably chearful in a Spot of Ground which is cover'd with Trees that fmile amidst all the Rigour of Winter , and give us ...
Strana 25
... Nature , to be a laudable , if not a virtuous Habit of Mind . For all which Reafons I hope you will pardon the Length of my prefent Letter . C I am , SIR , & c . N ° 478 Monday , September 8. , I -Ufus , Quem penes Arbitrium eft , & Jus ...
... Nature , to be a laudable , if not a virtuous Habit of Mind . For all which Reafons I hope you will pardon the Length of my prefent Letter . C I am , SIR , & c . N ° 478 Monday , September 8. , I -Ufus , Quem penes Arbitrium eft , & Jus ...
Strana 26
... Nature . The Variableness of Fashion turns the Stream of Bufinefs , which flows from it , now into one Channel , and anon into another ; fo that the different Sets of People fink or flourish in their turns by it . FROM the Shops we ...
... Nature . The Variableness of Fashion turns the Stream of Bufinefs , which flows from it , now into one Channel , and anon into another ; fo that the different Sets of People fink or flourish in their turns by it . FROM the Shops we ...
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Strana 68 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths : their soul is melted because of trouble : they reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
Strana 22 - ... reason of its rarity, that if I meet with any one in a field which pleases me, I give it a place in my garden. By this means, when a stranger walks with me, he is...
Strana 97 - MY friend Will Honeycomb has told me, for above this half year, that he had a great mind to try his hand at a Spectator, and that he would fain have one of his writing in my works. This morning I received from him the following letter, which, after having rectified some little orthographical mistakes, I shall make a present of to the public. ' DEAR SPEC. ' I WAS about two nights ago in company with very agreeable young people of both sexes, where, talking of some of your papers which...
Strana 163 - Knowing that you was my old Master's good Friend, I could not forbear sending you the melancholy News of his Death, which has afflicted the whole Country, as well as his poor Servants, who loved him, I may say, better than we did our Lives. I am afraid he caught his Death the last County...
Strana 24 - The laurel, the horn-beam, and the holly, with many other trees and plants of the same nature, grow so thick in it that you cannot imagine a more lively scene. The glowing redness of the berries, with which they are hung at this time, vies with the verdure of their leaves, .and...
Strana 195 - As I remember the great affection which was between you and your excellent brother, and know you love his daughter as your own, so as not only to express the tenderness of the best of aunts, but even to supply that of the best of fathers ; I am sure it will be a...
Strana 92 - The young man did not want natural talents; but the father of him was a coxcomb, who affected being a fine gentleman so unmercifully, that he could not endure in his sight, or the frequent mention of one who was his son, growing into .manhood, and thrusting him out of the gay world.
Strana 105 - These are thoughts which I had, when I fell into a kind of vision upon this subject, and may therefore stand for a proper introduction to a relation of it.
Strana 61 - Thus it is observed, that men sometimes, upon the hour of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves; for then the soul, beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body, begins to reason like herself, and to discourse in a strain above mortality.
Strana 173 - There are animals so near of kin both to birds and beasts, that they are in the middle between both : amphibious animals link...