The British Essayists: SpectatorLionel Thomas Berguer T. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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... discourses soon degenerated into ribaldry and abuse , and at length into downright blasphemy and buffoonery . His auditors paid a shilling each ; and as they chiefly consisted of ignorant mechanics , and sometimes of the very refuse of ...
... discourses soon degenerated into ribaldry and abuse , and at length into downright blasphemy and buffoonery . His auditors paid a shilling each ; and as they chiefly consisted of ignorant mechanics , and sometimes of the very refuse of ...
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... discourse is at once animated by the strength and force of reason , and adorned with all the graces and embellishments of wit ! When learning irra- diates common life , it is then in its highest use and perfection ; and it is to such as ...
... discourse is at once animated by the strength and force of reason , and adorned with all the graces and embellishments of wit ! When learning irra- diates common life , it is then in its highest use and perfection ; and it is to such as ...
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... discourses , the character of a good - natured , honest , and accomplished gentle- But such representations give my reader an idea of a person blameless only , or only laudable for such perfections as extend no farther than to his own ...
... discourses , the character of a good - natured , honest , and accomplished gentle- But such representations give my reader an idea of a person blameless only , or only laudable for such perfections as extend no farther than to his own ...
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... discourse , the suddenness of your laugh , the management of your snuff - box , with the whiteness of your hands and teeth ( which have justly gained you the envy of the most polite part of the male world , and the love of the greatest ...
... discourse , the suddenness of your laugh , the management of your snuff - box , with the whiteness of your hands and teeth ( which have justly gained you the envy of the most polite part of the male world , and the love of the greatest ...
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... discourse gives the same pleasure that wit would in another man . He has made his fortune himself ; and says that England may be richer than other kingdoms , by as plain methods as he himself is richer than other men ; though at the ...
... discourse gives the same pleasure that wit would in another man . He has made his fortune himself ; and says that England may be richer than other kingdoms , by as plain methods as he himself is richer than other men ; though at the ...
Términos y frases comunes
acquaint acrostics ADDISON admiration Æneid aëre agreeable appear assembly audience battle of Almanza beauty BUDGELL character club coffee-house conversation delight discourse dress endeavour English entertainment envious Ephesian Matron eyes folly genius gentleman George Etherege give heard hearing sense heart hero honour Hudibras humble servant humour impudence innocent Italian kind King lady laugh letter likewise lion live looked lover mankind manner MARCH March 15 MARCH 21 means merit mind minuet nature never night obliged observed occasion opera OVID paper particular passion perpetual entertainment person Pict piece play playhouse pleased poet present raillery reader reason Roger de Coverley says scenes sense shew Sir Roger speak SPECTATOR stage talk taste TATLER tell thing thorough-bass thought tion told town tragedy verse virtue whole woman women word writings young
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Página 135 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Página 19 - I 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 226 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Página 132 - I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey ; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable.
Página 133 - ... and enemies, priests and soldiers, monks and prebendaries, were crumbled amongst one another, and blended together in the same common mass ; how beauty, strength, and youth, with old age, weakness, and deformity, lay undistinguished in the same promiscuous heap of matter.
Página 48 - Lacedemonians, that honest people, more virtuous than polite, rose up all to a man, and with the greatest respect received him among them. The Athenians being suddenly touched with a sense of the Spartan virtue, and their own degeneracy, gave a thunder of applause ; and. the old man cried out, " The Athenians understand what is good, but the Lacedemonians practise it
Página 22 - Tree, and in the theatres both of Drury Lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stock-jobbers at Jonathan's.
Página 29 - ... the gallant Will Honeycomb, a gentleman who, according to his years, should be in the decline of his life, but having ever been very careful of his person, and always had a very easy fortune, time has made but very little impression, either by wrinkles on his forehead, or traces in his brain.
Página 210 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon...
Página 100 - English; and the angry sounds that were turned to rage in the original, were made to express pity in the translation. It oftentimes happened, likewise, that the finest notes in the air fell upon the most insignificant words in the sentence. I have known the word "and" pursued through the whole gamut; have been entertained with many a melodious "the;" and have heard the most beautiful graces, quavers, and divisions bestowed upon "then," "for," and "from," to the eternal honour of our English particles.