The Spectator: ...J. Coote, 1778 |
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... appears as great in your private life , as in the most important offices which You have borne . I would there- fore rather choose to speak of the pleasure You afford all who are admitted into your converfa- tion , of your elegant taste ...
... appears as great in your private life , as in the most important offices which You have borne . I would there- fore rather choose to speak of the pleasure You afford all who are admitted into your converfa- tion , of your elegant taste ...
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... appear on Sunday nights at St. James's coffee - houfe , and fometimes . join the little committee of politics in the inner - room , as one who comes there to hear and improve . My face is likewife very well known at the Grecian , the ...
... appear on Sunday nights at St. James's coffee - houfe , and fometimes . join the little committee of politics in the inner - room , as one who comes there to hear and improve . My face is likewife very well known at the Grecian , the ...
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... appear a set of hu- mourists unacquainted with the gallantries and pleasures of the age , we have among us the gallant WILL Ho- NEYCOMB , a gentleman , who according to his years fhould be in the decline of his life , but having ever ...
... appear a set of hu- mourists unacquainted with the gallantries and pleasures of the age , we have among us the gallant WILL Ho- NEYCOMB , a gentleman , who according to his years fhould be in the decline of his life , but having ever ...
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... appears in the world , is very apt to believe it has nothing to think of but his performances . With a good fhare of this vanity . in my heart , I made it my bufinefs these three days to liften after my own fame ; and as I have ...
... appears in the world , is very apt to believe it has nothing to think of but his performances . With a good fhare of this vanity . in my heart , I made it my bufinefs these three days to liften after my own fame ; and as I have ...
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... appear learned without talk- ing fentences , as in his ordinary gefture he discovers he can dance , though he does not cut capers . In a word , I fhall take it for the greatest glory of my work , if among reasonable women this paper may ...
... appear learned without talk- ing fentences , as in his ordinary gefture he discovers he can dance , though he does not cut capers . In a word , I fhall take it for the greatest glory of my work , if among reasonable women this paper may ...
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Página 107 - 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.
Página 12 - I have acted in all the parts of my life as a looker-on, which is the character I intend to preserve in this paper.
Página 106 - I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous minds and gloomy imaginations ; but for my own part, 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.
Página 35 - In the midst of these my musings, she desired me to reach her a little salt upon the point of my knife, which I did in such a trepidation and hurry of obedience, that I let it drop by the way, at which she immediately startled, and said it fell towards her.
Página 273 - ... common interest. Almost every degree produces something peculiar to it ; the food often grows in one country, and the sauce in another. The fruits of Portugal are corrected by the products of Barbadoes. The infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian cane.
Página 30 - ... stage might be as much infested with mice, as the prince of the island was before the cat's arrival upon it; for which reason he would not permit it to be acted in his house. And indeed I cannot blame him: for, as he said very well upon that occasion, I do not hear that any of the performers in our opera pretend to equal the famous pied piper, who made all the mice of a great town in Germany follow his music, and by that means cleared the place of those little noxious animals.
Página 17 - With this candour does the gentleman speak of himself and others. The same frankness runs through all his conversation. The military part of his life has...
Página 9 - HAvE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Página 200 - I could not observe any circumstance of devotion in their behaviour. There was indeed a man in black, who was mounted above the rest, and seemed to utter something with a great deal of vehemence ; but as for those underneath him, instead of paying their worship to the deity of the place, they were most of them bowing and curtseying to one another, and a considerable number of them fast asleep.
Página 275 - So, on the contrary, an ordinary Song or Ballad that is the Delight of the common People, cannot fail to please all such Readers as are not unqualified for the Entertainment by their Affectation or Ignorance; and the Reason is plain, because the same Paintings of Nature which recommend it to the most ordinary Reader, will appear Beautiful to the most refined.