The British Essayists: SpectatorC. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... Sense to Ho- nesty and Virtue ... 7. Popular Superstitions ... 8. Letters on Masquerades . 9. Account of various Clubs 10. The Uses of the Spectator ..... ............ ADDISON STEELE ADDISON 11. Character of Arietta - the Ephesian ...
... Sense to Ho- nesty and Virtue ... 7. Popular Superstitions ... 8. Letters on Masquerades . 9. Account of various Clubs 10. The Uses of the Spectator ..... ............ ADDISON STEELE ADDISON 11. Character of Arietta - the Ephesian ...
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... sense of interest and propriety , that he disregarded Addison's services when chiefly he experienced the benefit arising from " I will not meddle with the Spectator , let him fair sex it to the world's end . " Swift's Works , crown Svo ...
... sense of interest and propriety , that he disregarded Addison's services when chiefly he experienced the benefit arising from " I will not meddle with the Spectator , let him fair sex it to the world's end . " Swift's Works , crown Svo ...
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... sense , " not , I allow , a very common source of singularities , in the usual acceptation of that word ; and before he * Beattie's Notes , ubi suprà . Budgell relates this last story in one of the numbers of the Bee , at a time when ...
... sense , " not , I allow , a very common source of singularities , in the usual acceptation of that word ; and before he * Beattie's Notes , ubi suprà . Budgell relates this last story in one of the numbers of the Bee , at a time when ...
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... . Tyers , to be a Sir John Packington , of Worcestershire , " a Tory , not without good sense , but abounding in absurdities . " Captain b VOL . V. Sentry is said to have been C. Kempenfelt , fa- BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . xxi.
... . Tyers , to be a Sir John Packington , of Worcestershire , " a Tory , not without good sense , but abounding in absurdities . " Captain b VOL . V. Sentry is said to have been C. Kempenfelt , fa- BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . xxi.
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... sense of the ser- Tancred and Sigismunda . Davies , the Biographer of Garrick , adds , that she was an actress of considerable powers , and died at Bath about the year 1755 . * His conduct in the embarkation of the troops , & c . to be ...
... sense of the ser- Tancred and Sigismunda . Davies , the Biographer of Garrick , adds , that she was an actress of considerable powers , and died at Bath about the year 1755 . * His conduct in the embarkation of the troops , & c . to be ...
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Page xxvii - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Page 47 - 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 CoffeeHouses.
Page 8 - ... 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.
Page 203 - Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell Why thy canoniz'd bones, hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre, Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd, Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws To cast thee up again...
Page 60 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator ! oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk, With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds, In full harmonic number join'd, their songs Divide the night,...
Page 288 - For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Page 1 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Page 122 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out ; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.
Page 221 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Page 6 - ... a gentleman of Worcestershire, of ancient descent, a baronet, his name Sir Roger de Coverley. His great grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance which is called after him. All who know that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger. He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world, only as he thinks the world is in the wrong.