Selections from the SpectatorMacmillan and Company, 1892 - Počet stran: 220 |
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... occasion . In the meantime , when I consider how much I have seen , read , and heard , I begin to blame my own taciturnity ; and since I have neither time nor inclination to communicate the fulness of my heart in speech , I am resolved ...
... occasion . In the meantime , when I consider how much I have seen , read , and heard , I begin to blame my own taciturnity ; and since I have neither time nor inclination to communicate the fulness of my heart in speech , I am resolved ...
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... occasion , he will tell you when the Duke of Monmouth danced at court such a woman was then smitten , another was taken with him at the head of his troop in the Park . In all these important relations , he has ever about the same time ...
... occasion , he will tell you when the Duke of Monmouth danced at court such a woman was then smitten , another was taken with him at the head of his troop in the Park . In all these important relations , he has ever about the same time ...
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... witches , ghosts , and prodigies ? GOING yesterday to dine with an old acquaintance , I had the misfortune to find his whole family very much dejected . 66 Upon asking him the occasion of it , he 14 THE SPECTATOR . Popular Superstitions,
... witches , ghosts , and prodigies ? GOING yesterday to dine with an old acquaintance , I had the misfortune to find his whole family very much dejected . 66 Upon asking him the occasion of it , he 14 THE SPECTATOR . Popular Superstitions,
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Joseph Addison Kenneth Deighton. 66 Upon asking him the occasion of it , he told me that his wife had dreamt a strange dream the night before , which they were afraid portended some misfortune to themselves or to their children . At her ...
Joseph Addison Kenneth Deighton. 66 Upon asking him the occasion of it , he told me that his wife had dreamt a strange dream the night before , which they were afraid portended some misfortune to themselves or to their children . At her ...
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... occasion of several distempers among them which our country is entirely free from . Instead of those beautiful feathers with which we adorn our heads , they often buy up a monstrous bush of hair which covers their heads , and falls down ...
... occasion of several distempers among them which our country is entirely free from . Instead of those beautiful feathers with which we adorn our heads , they often buy up a monstrous bush of hair which covers their heads , and falls down ...
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Strana 76 - Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which added to those that were entire made up the number about an hundred.
Strana 74 - I was thus musing, I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me, where I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a little musical instrument in his hand.
Strana 21 - ... 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 76 - As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge into the great tide that flowed underneath it; and upon. further examination, perceived there were innumerable trapdoors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon, but they fell through them into the tide, and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many...
Strana 125 - At my nativity my ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius ; I 20 was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet in me.
Strana 132 - 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 53 - I am the more at ease in Sir 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 21 - 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 75 - I drew near with that Reverence which is due to a superior Nature \ and as my Heart was entirely subdued by the captivating Strains I had heard, I fell down at his Feet and wept The Genius smiled upon me with a Look of Compassion and Affability that familiarized him to my Imagination, and at once dispelled all the Fears and Apprehensions with which I approached him.
Strana 7 - London; a person of indefatigable industry, strong reason, and great experience. His notions of trade are noble and generous, and (as every rich man has usually some sly way of jesting, which would make no great figure were he not a rich man) he calls the sea the British Common.