The Spectator, Svazek 7J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753 |
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Strana 14
... first time I took the Air • afterwards , I should be addrefs'd to by a young Gentle- man of a plentiful Fortune , good Senfe , and a generous Spirit . Mr. SPECTATOR , he is the purest Man in the World , for all he faid is come to pafs ...
... first time I took the Air • afterwards , I should be addrefs'd to by a young Gentle- man of a plentiful Fortune , good Senfe , and a generous Spirit . Mr. SPECTATOR , he is the purest Man in the World , for all he faid is come to pafs ...
Strana 18
... first , I have the whole Scheme of the Difcourfe in my Mind before I fet Pen to Paper . In the other kind of Writing , it is fufficient that I have feveral Thoughts on a Subject , without troubling myself to range them in fuch order ...
... first , I have the whole Scheme of the Difcourfe in my Mind before I fet Pen to Paper . In the other kind of Writing , it is fufficient that I have feveral Thoughts on a Subject , without troubling myself to range them in fuch order ...
Strana 19
... first Sentences , the Queftion is not intirely loft . Our Dispu- tants put me in mind of the Scuttle - Fish , that when he is unable to extricate himself , blackens all the Water about him till he becomes invifible . The Man who does ...
... first Sentences , the Queftion is not intirely loft . Our Dispu- tants put me in mind of the Scuttle - Fish , that when he is unable to extricate himself , blackens all the Water about him till he becomes invifible . The Man who does ...
Strana 21
... first landing , he would look upon it as a natural Wilderness , and one of the uncultivated Parts of our Country . My Flowers grow up in feveral Parts of the Garden in the greatest Luxuriancy and Profufion . I am so far from being fond ...
... first landing , he would look upon it as a natural Wilderness , and one of the uncultivated Parts of our Country . My Flowers grow up in feveral Parts of the Garden in the greatest Luxuriancy and Profufion . I am so far from being fond ...
Strana 24
... first Parents before the Fall . It is naturally apt to fill the Mind with Calmnefs and Tranquillity , and to lay all its turbulent Palions at reft . It gives us a great Irfight Infight into the Contrivance and Wifdom of Providence , and ...
... first Parents before the Fall . It is naturally apt to fill the Mind with Calmnefs and Tranquillity , and to lay all its turbulent Palions at reft . It gives us a great Irfight Infight into the Contrivance and Wifdom of Providence , and ...
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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...
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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...