The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]: with a biogr. and critical preface, and notes1853 |
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... able to take part in debate , that was of course known before he became secretary ; but to believe that he could not transact the mere business of his department , we must forget how many very stupid men have made respectable ministers ...
... able to take part in debate , that was of course known before he became secretary ; but to believe that he could not transact the mere business of his department , we must forget how many very stupid men have made respectable ministers ...
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... able to furnish him with , and therefore shall make no apology for them . " SIR , " TO THE SPECTATOR , & c . " I am one of the directors of the society for the reformation of manners , and therefore think myself a proper person for your ...
... able to furnish him with , and therefore shall make no apology for them . " SIR , " TO THE SPECTATOR , & c . " I am one of the directors of the society for the reformation of manners , and therefore think myself a proper person for your ...
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... able to rout our whole fraternity , though we were accompanied with all our guard of constables . Both these reasons , which secure them from our authority , make them obnoxious to yours ; as both their disguise and their numbers will ...
... able to rout our whole fraternity , though we were accompanied with all our guard of constables . Both these reasons , which secure them from our authority , make them obnoxious to yours ; as both their disguise and their numbers will ...
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... able to keep up the spirit of a paper which I oblige myself to furnish every day ; but to make them easy in this particular , I will promise them faithfully to give it over as soon as I grow dull . This I know will be matter of great ...
... able to keep up the spirit of a paper which I oblige myself to furnish every day ; but to make them easy in this particular , I will promise them faithfully to give it over as soon as I grow dull . This I know will be matter of great ...
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... able to give his friends of his voyage . Upon which consideration , the prudent and frugal young man sold Yarico to a Barbadian merchant ; notwithstanding that the poor girl , to incline him to commiserate her condition , told him that ...
... able to give his friends of his voyage . Upon which consideration , the prudent and frugal young man sold Yarico to a Barbadian merchant ; notwithstanding that the poor girl , to incline him to commiserate her condition , told him that ...
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acquaintance actions ADDISON admiration Æneid agreeable Alcibiades appear Aristotle beauty behaviour character club consider conversation creature delight desire discourse dress DRYDEN endeavour English entertainment Ephesian Matron eyes father favour fortune genius gentleman give greatest happy head hear heard heart honour hope Hudibras human humble servant humour Iliad innocent kind lady laugh learned letter live look lover mankind manner marriage master means mind nature never obliged observed occasion opera OVID paper Paradise Lost particular pass passion person Pharamond Plato pleased pleasure poem poet present proper racter reader reason ROGER DE COVERLEY Sappho sense shew Sir ROGER Socrates soul speak SPECTATOR speculations STEELE tell temper Theodosius thing thou thought tion told town turn VIRG Virgil virtue Whig whole woman women words write young
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Página 306 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees anybody else nodding either wakes them himself or sends his servants to them.
Página 306 - ... reprimand to the person that is absent. The chaplain has often told me, that upon a catechising day, when Sir Roger has been pleased with a boy that answers well, he has ordered a bible to be given him next day for his encouragement; and sometimes accompanies it with a flitch of bacon to his mother. Sir Roger has likewise added five pounds a year to the clerk's place ; and that he...
Página 422 - O'er heaven's high towers to force resistless way, Turning our tortures into horrid arms Against the Torturer ; when to meet the noise Of his almighty engine he shall hear Infernal thunder, and for lightning see Black fire and horror shot with equal rage Among his angels ; and his throne itself Mixt with Tartarean sulphur and strange fire, His own invented torments.
Página 290 - Greek at his own table, for which reason he desired a particular friend of his at the University to find him out a clergyman rather of plain sense than much learning, of a good aspect, a clear voice, a sociable temper, and, if possible, a man that understood a little of backgammon. My friend...
Página 12 - He is now in his fifty-sixth year, cheerful, gay, and hearty; keeps a good house both in 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. When he comes into a house he calls the servants by their names, and talks all the way upstairs to a visit.
Página 306 - ... than blemish his good qualities. 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 inquires...
Página 303 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present. Were a human soul thus at...
Página 307 - ... squire, who live in a perpetual state of war. The parson is always preaching at the 'squire; and the 'squire, to be revenged on the parson, never comes to church. The 'squire has made all his tenants atheists and...
Página 32 - 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 coffee-houses.
Página 283 - In a word, whatsoever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over ; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under an everlasting jealousy and suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly. When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast; and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.