The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Svazek 2J. Crissy, 1824 |
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Strana 17
... seems to have been more intent upon the figure of his the sense upon poem , than 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 the sense upon poem , than 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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Strana 250 - Roger's family, because it consists of sober and staid persons; for .as the knight is the best master in the world, he seldom changes his servants; and as he is beloved by all about him, his servants never care for leaving him : by this means his Domestics are all in years, and grown old with their master. You would take his valet...
Strana 37 - For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Strana 101 - Lo, yonder doth Earl Douglas come, His men in armour bright ; Full twenty hundred Scottish spears All marching in our sight ; All men of pleasant Teviotdale, Fast by the river Tweed...
Strana 250 - 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 253 - 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 79 - 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 192 - WE all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.
Strana 252 - As I was walking with him last night, he asked me how I liked the good man whom I have just now mentioned? and without staying for my answer told me, that he was afraid of being insulted with Latin and Greek at his own table...
Strana 176 - With what all Earth or Heaven could bestow To make her amiable...
Strana 76 - 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.