The Spectator; in Miniature: Being a Collection of the Principal Religious, Moral, Humorous, Satyrical & Critical Essays Contained in that Celebrated Publication, 2. köideW. Suttaby, 1808 |
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Page 67
... 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 . But to return to punning . Having pursned the his tory of a pun , from its original ...
... 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 . But to return to punning . Having pursned the his tory of a pun , from its original ...
Page 84
... Acrostics two or three files of Chronograms , which differed only from the former , as their officers were equipped ( like the figure of Time ) with an hour- glass in one hand , and a scythe in the other , and took their posts ...
... Acrostics two or three files of Chronograms , which differed only from the former , as their officers were equipped ( like the figure of Time ) with an hour- glass in one hand , and a scythe in the other , and took their posts ...
Page 89
... acrostic was probably invented about the same time with the anagram , though it is impossible to de- cide whether the ... acrostics , when the principal letters stand two or three deep . I have seen some of them where the verses have not ...
... acrostic was probably invented about the same time with the anagram , though it is impossible to de- cide whether the ... acrostics , when the principal letters stand two or three deep . I have seen some of them where the verses have not ...
Contents
VOLUME | i |
History of Inkle and Yarico | iii |
Life of Joseph Addison The Same | xx |
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Acrostics ADDISON admired affect agreeable Anagrams animals appear April fools atheist Avarice beautiful behaviour Blanche of Castile body called character Cicero consider conversation court creatures death delight divine dreams dressed DRYDEN endeavour Eucrate excellent fancy Fidelio fortune genius gentleman George Etheridge give glory greatest hand happy heard heart Heaven Hesiod honour human humour ideas imagination infinite JOSEPH ADDISON kind king lady Lætitia laugh live look Lord mankind manner ment mind nature neral never observe occasion opinion OVID particular passion perfection person Pharamond Pict Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet praise present prince racter reader reason religion ROSCOMMON sense sight sion Sir Richard Baker soul speak Spectator spirits Tatler tell temper thing thou thought tion told truth tural turn VIRG virtue Whig whilst whole woman wonderful words writings young