The Spectator, Band 3Tonson, 1739 |
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... Country . THE Confideration of " this Part of Your Character , is that which hinders me from enlarging on thofe Extraordinary Talents , which have given You so great a Figure in the British Senate , as well as on that Elegance and Po ...
... Country . THE Confideration of " this Part of Your Character , is that which hinders me from enlarging on thofe Extraordinary Talents , which have given You so great a Figure in the British Senate , as well as on that Elegance and Po ...
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... Country , but re many Degrees nearer the Sun in their Conftitutions than in their Climate . AFTER this frightful Account of Jealoufy , and the Perfons who are molt fubject to it , it will be but fair to fhew by what means the Paffion ...
... Country , but re many Degrees nearer the Sun in their Conftitutions than in their Climate . AFTER this frightful Account of Jealoufy , and the Perfons who are molt fubject to it , it will be but fair to fhew by what means the Paffion ...
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... Country Fellows within ten Miles of the Swan , grinn an Hour or two in their Glaffes every Morning , in Order to qualify themfelves for the 9th of October . The Prize which is propofed to be Grinn'd for , has raifed fuch an Ambition ...
... Country Fellows within ten Miles of the Swan , grinn an Hour or two in their Glaffes every Morning , in Order to qualify themfelves for the 9th of October . The Prize which is propofed to be Grinn'd for , has raifed fuch an Ambition ...
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... Country in fome Pain , left a Foreigner fhould carry away the Honour of the Day ; but upon a farther Trial they found he was Mafter only of the merry Grinn . THE next that mounted the Table was a Malecontent in thofe Days , and a great ...
... Country in fome Pain , left a Foreigner fhould carry away the Honour of the Day ; but upon a farther Trial they found he was Mafter only of the merry Grinn . THE next that mounted the Table was a Malecontent in thofe Days , and a great ...
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than all the reft , a Country Wench whom he had wooed in vain for above five Years before , was so charmed with his Grinns , and the Applaufes which he received on all Sides , that the married him the Week following , and to this Day ...
than all the reft , a Country Wench whom he had wooed in vain for above five Years before , was so charmed with his Grinns , and the Applaufes which he received on all Sides , that the married him the Week following , and to this Day ...
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Seite 305 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Seite 103 - If exercise throws off all superfluities, temperance prevents them ; if exercise clears the vessels, temperance neither satiates nor overstrains them; if exercise raises proper ferments in the humours, and promotes...
Seite 106 - If we consider these ancient sages, a great part of whose philosophy consisted in a temperate and abstemious course of life, one would think the life of a philosopher and the life of a man were of two different dates.
Seite 212 - IF we look abroad upon the great multitude of mankind, and endeavour to trace out the principles of action in every individual, it will, I think...
Seite 207 - A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Seite 222 - Athenians, with what wonderful art are almost all the different tempers of mankind represented in that elegant audience? You see one credulous of all that is said; another wrapt up in deep suspense; another saying, there is some reason in what he says; another angry that the apostle destroys a favourite opinion which he is unwilling to give up; another wholly convinced, and holding out his hands in rapture; while the generality attend, and wait for the opinion of those who are of leading characters...
Seite 60 - To justify this assertion, I shall put my reader in mind of Horace, the greatest wit and critic in the Augustan age ; and of Boileau, the most correct poet among the moderns ; not to mention La Fontaine, who by this way of writing is come more into vogue than any other author of our times.
Seite 89 - I have been told of a certain zealous dissenter, who being a great enemy to popery, and believing that bad men are the most fortunate in this world, will lay two to one on the number 666 against any other number, because, says he, it is the number of the beast.
Seite 63 - Pain of the vicious part of that species which was given up to them. But upon examining to which of them any individual they met with belonged, they found each of them had a right to him ; for that, contrary...
Seite 217 - When these have pointed out to us which course we may lawfully steer, it is no harm to set out all our sail; if the storms and tempests of adversity should rise upon us, and not suffer us to make the haven where we would be, it will however prove no small consolation to us in these circumstances, that we have neither mistaken our course, nor fallen into calamities of our own procuring. Religion therefore (were we to...