The Spectator, Volumen 2Tonson, 1729 |
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... Account in another . I fhall conclude this Narrative with a Letter from honeft S A M. HOPEWELL , a very pleafant Fellow , who it feems has at last married a Demurrer : I muft only premife , that SAM , who is a very good Bottle ...
... Account in another . I fhall conclude this Narrative with a Letter from honeft S A M. HOPEWELL , a very pleafant Fellow , who it feems has at last married a Demurrer : I muft only premife , that SAM , who is a very good Bottle ...
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... Account of it . · · · · · WHEN I was in the Country laft Summer , I was often in Company with a Couple of charming Women , who had all the Wit and Beauty one could defire in Female Companions , with a Dafh of Coquetry , that from time ...
... Account of it . · · · · · WHEN I was in the Country laft Summer , I was often in Company with a Couple of charming Women , who had all the Wit and Beauty one could defire in Female Companions , with a Dafh of Coquetry , that from time ...
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... Account a young Lady gave me of the Loves of a Family in Town , which fhall be name- lefs ; or rather for the better Sound and Elevation of the History , instead of Mr. and Mrs , fuch - a - one , 1 fhall call them by feigned Names ...
... Account a young Lady gave me of the Loves of a Family in Town , which fhall be name- lefs ; or rather for the better Sound and Elevation of the History , instead of Mr. and Mrs , fuch - a - one , 1 fhall call them by feigned Names ...
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... could repeat the little Circumftances of a Converfation of the four Lovers with the Spirit in which the young Lady , I had my Account from which 44 The SPECTATOR . N ° 91 . therefore allowed to Flavia to look forward, but not ...
... could repeat the little Circumftances of a Converfation of the four Lovers with the Spirit in which the young Lady , I had my Account from which 44 The SPECTATOR . N ° 91 . therefore allowed to Flavia to look forward, but not ...
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which the young Lady , I had my Account from , repre- fented it at a Vifit where I had the Honour to be prefents but it seems Dick Craftin , the Admirer of Honoria , and Tom Tulip the Pretender to Flavia , were purpofely ad- mitted ...
which the young Lady , I had my Account from , repre- fented it at a Vifit where I had the Honour to be prefents but it seems Dick Craftin , the Admirer of Honoria , and Tom Tulip the Pretender to Flavia , were purpofely ad- mitted ...
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Página 286 - I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it.
Página 289 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.
Página 110 - ... subjects, hear their duties explained to them, and join together in adoration of the Supreme Being. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week, not only as it refreshes in their minds the notions of religion, but as it puts both the sexes upon appearing in their most agreeable forms, and exerting all such qualities as are apt to give them a figure in the eye of the village.
Página 112 - As soon as the Sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the Church. The Knight walks down from his Seat in the Chancel between a double row of his Tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side; and every now and then...
Página 153 - Upon his first rising the court was hushed, and a general whisper ran among the country people, that Sir Roger < was up. ' The speech he made was so little to the purpose, that I shall not trouble my readers with an account of it; and I believe was not so much designed by the knight himself to inform the court, as to give him a figure in my eye, and keep up his credit in the country.
Página 112 - ... dazzled with riches, that they pay as much deference to the understanding of a man of an estate as of a man of learning...
Página 110 - It is certain the country people would soon degenerate into a kind of savages and barbarians, were there not such frequent returns of a stated time in which the whole village meet together with their best faces and in their cleanliest habits to converse with one another upon indifferent subjects, hear their duties explained to them, and join together in adoration of the supreme Being.
Página 96 - ... he is every day soliciting me for something in behalf of one or other of my tenants his parishioners. There has not been a lawsuit in the parish since he has lived among them ; if any dispute arises they apply themselves to him for the decision ; if they do not acquiesce in his judgment, which I think never happened above once or twice at most, they appeal to me.
Página 286 - What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other? What thou seest...
Página 101 - Country, and is very famous for finding out a Hare. He is extremely well versed in all the little Handicrafts of an idle Man: He makes a May-fly to a Miracle ; and furnishes the whole Country with Angle-Rods.