The British Essayists: SpectatorC. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... acrostic , by which means some of the most arrant undisputed blockheads about the town began to en- tertain ambitious thoughts , and to set up for polite authors . I shall therefore describe at length those many arts of false wit , in ...
... acrostic , by which means some of the most arrant undisputed blockheads about the town began to en- tertain ambitious thoughts , and to set up for polite authors . I shall therefore describe at length those many arts of false wit , in ...
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... acrostic land ; There may'st thou wings display , and altars raise , And torture one poor word a thousand ways . This fashion of false wit was revived by several poets of the last age , and , in particular may be met with among Mr ...
... acrostic land ; There may'st thou wings display , and altars raise , And torture one poor word a thousand ways . This fashion of false wit was revived by several poets of the last age , and , in particular may be met with among Mr ...
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... acrostics , when the principal letters stand two or three deep . I have seen some of them where the verses have not only been edged by a name at each extremity , but have had the same name run- ning down like a seam through the middle ...
... acrostics , when the principal letters stand two or three deep . I have seen some of them where the verses have not only been edged by a name at each extremity , but have had the same name run- ning down like a seam through the middle ...
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... acrostics and whig anagrams , and do not quarrel with either of them , because they are whigs or tories , but because they are anagrams and acrostics . ass . But to return to punning . Having pursued the history of a pun , from its ...
... acrostics and whig anagrams , and do not quarrel with either of them , because they are whigs or tories , but because they are anagrams and acrostics . ass . But to return to punning . Having pursued the history of a pun , from its ...
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... acrostics : sometimes of syllables , as in echoes and doggrel rhymes ; sometimes of words , as in puns and quibbles ; and sometimes of whole sentences or poems , cast into the figures of eggs , axes , or altars : nay , some carry the ...
... acrostics : sometimes of syllables , as in echoes and doggrel rhymes ; sometimes of words , as in puns and quibbles ; and sometimes of whole sentences or poems , cast into the figures of eggs , axes , or altars : nay , some carry the ...
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acquaint acrostics Addison admiration Æneid Æsop agreeable appear assembly audience beauty behaviour Bouts-Rimés called character club coffee-house consider conversation discourse dress endeavour English entertainment envious Eustace Budgell eyes favour genius gentleman George Etheridge give hand hearing sense heart hero honour Hudibras humble servant humour impudent inns of court innu Italian kind King lady laugh learned letter likewise lion live look lover manner MARCH MARCH 12 means merit mind nature never night observed occasion opera OVID paper particular passion person Pict piece play pleased poem poet present racter raillery reader reason Roger de Coverley ROSCOMMON says scenes sense short Sir Roger speak Spectator stage Steele talk taste Tatler tell thing thought tion told town tragedy verse VIRG whole woman women word writers young
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Página xxvii - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Página 47 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven, to inhabit among Men; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and in CoffeeHouses.
Página 8 - ... town and country ; a great lover of mankind ; but there is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour, that he is rather beloved than esteemed. His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
Página 203 - Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell Why thy canoniz'd bones, hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre, Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd, Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws To cast thee up again...
Página 60 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator ! oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk, With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds, In full harmonic number join'd, their songs Divide the night,...
Página 288 - 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...
Página 1 - 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 122 - 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 tomb-stone, 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 221 - 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 6 - ... a gentleman of Worcestershire, of ancient descent, a baronet, his name Sir Roger de Coverley. His great grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance which is called after him. All who know that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger. He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world, only as he thinks the world is in the wrong.