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He studied at Merton College , Oxford , and acquired considerable reputation for his literary attainments ; but in spite of the poem he published in 1695 , on the death of Queen Mary , nature had intended " poor Dick , " as Addison ...
He studied at Merton College , Oxford , and acquired considerable reputation for his literary attainments ; but in spite of the poem he published in 1695 , on the death of Queen Mary , nature had intended " poor Dick , " as Addison ...
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Nature and reason direct one thing , passion and humour another . To follow the dictates of these two latter , is going into a road that is both endless and intricate ; when we pursue the other , our passage is delightful , and what we ...
Nature and reason direct one thing , passion and humour another . To follow the dictates of these two latter , is going into a road that is both endless and intricate ; when we pursue the other , our passage is delightful , and what we ...
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The Mum Club ( as I am informed ) is an institution of the same nature , and as great an enemy to noise . After these two innocent societies , I cannot forbear mentioning a very mischievous one , that was erected in the reign of King ...
The Mum Club ( as I am informed ) is an institution of the same nature , and as great an enemy to noise . After these two innocent societies , I cannot forbear mentioning a very mischievous one , that was erected in the reign of King ...
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At the same time , as I would fain give some finishing touches to those which are already the most beautiful pieces in human nature , I shall endeavour to point out all those imperfections that are the blemishes , as well as those ...
At the same time , as I would fain give some finishing touches to those which are already the most beautiful pieces in human nature , I shall endeavour to point out all those imperfections that are the blemishes , as well as those ...
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The world is so full of ill nature , that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell , and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write . By the last post , in particular , I received a packet of scandal which is not ...
The world is so full of ill nature , that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell , and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write . By the last post , in particular , I received a packet of scandal which is not ...
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Página 284 - 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 284 - ... 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 400 - 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 268 - 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 284 - ... 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 281 - 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 285 - ... 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 261 - 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.
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| Título | The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]: with a biogr. and critical preface, and notes |
| Autor | Spectator The |
| Publicado | 1853 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 19 Oct. 2006 |
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