The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...Bosworth, 1854 |
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... called it , to the squire ; and were bribed by him to admit him whenever he thought fit . I happened to be sitting in a little parlour which belonged to my own part of the house , and musing over one of the fondest of my husband's ...
... called it , to the squire ; and were bribed by him to admit him whenever he thought fit . I happened to be sitting in a little parlour which belonged to my own part of the house , and musing over one of the fondest of my husband's ...
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... Called for my flowered handkerchief . Worked half a violet leaf in it . Eyes ached and head out of order . Threw by my work , and read over the remaining part of Aurengzebe . " 66 From three to four . Dined . From four to twelve ...
... Called for my flowered handkerchief . Worked half a violet leaf in it . Eyes ached and head out of order . Threw by my work , and read over the remaining part of Aurengzebe . " 66 From three to four . Dined . From four to twelve ...
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... called me Indamora . * SATURDAY . Rose at eight o'clock in the morning . Sat down to my toilette . From eight to nine . Shifted a patch for half an hour before I could determine it . Fixed it above my left eye - brow . From nine to ...
... called me Indamora . * SATURDAY . Rose at eight o'clock in the morning . Sat down to my toilette . From eight to nine . Shifted a patch for half an hour before I could determine it . Fixed it above my left eye - brow . From nine to ...
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... called the dancing - masters , and teach their scholars to cut capers , by running swords through their legs ; a new invention , whether originally French I cannot tell . A third sort are the tumblers , whose office it is to set women ...
... called the dancing - masters , and teach their scholars to cut capers , by running swords through their legs ; a new invention , whether originally French I cannot tell . A third sort are the tumblers , whose office it is to set women ...
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... talked of seeing themselves in wells , fountains , lakes , and rivers . Nay , says he , I remember Mr. Dryden in his Ovid tells us of a swinging fellow , called Polypheme , that made use of 10 [ No. 325 . THE SPECTATOR .
... talked of seeing themselves in wells , fountains , lakes , and rivers . Nay , says he , I remember Mr. Dryden in his Ovid tells us of a swinging fellow , called Polypheme , that made use of 10 [ No. 325 . THE SPECTATOR .
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquaintance action Adam and Eve ADDISON admiration Æneid agreeable angels appear Aurengzebe bagnio beautiful behaviour behold called Callisthenes character cheerfulness Cicero circumstances colours consider conversation creature delight desire discourse endeavour entertainment eyes fancy father favour fortune gentleman give grace hand happy heart heaven Homer honour hope humble servant humour Iliad imagination Jupiter kind lady learning letter live look looking-glass mankind manner Margaret Clark matter Menippus Milton mind modesty Mohocks moral nature never night obliged observed occasion OVID paper Paradise Lost particular passed passion person pleased pleasure Plutarch poem poet present racter reader reason received ROSCOMMON Sempronia sight SIR ROGER soul speak SPECTATOR spirit STEELE take notice tell thee things thou thought tion told town Turnus VIRG Virgil virtue whole woman words writing yard land young
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Seite 100 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Seite 445 - I have set the LORD always before me : Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Seite 392 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Seite 37 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Seite 428 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Seite 135 - And another Angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the Angel's hand.
Seite 270 - We cannot indeed have a single Image in the Fancy that did not make its first Entrance through the Sight; but we have the Power of retaining, altering and compounding those Images, which we have once received, into all the Varieties of Picture and Vision...
Seite 428 - The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great original proclaim: Th' unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an almighty hand. Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Seite 269 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action, without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Seite 271 - ... and to set the animal spirits in pleasing and agreeable motions. For this reason Sir Francis Bacon, in his Essay upon Health, has not thought it improper to prescribe to his reader a poem or a prospect, where he particularly dissuades him from knotty and subtle disquisitions, and advises him to pursue studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious objects, as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature.