The Spectator ...John Sharpe, 1803 |
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... imagination , that they formed in it a short morn- ing's dream , which I shall communicate to my rea- der , rather as the first sketch and outlines of a vision , than as a finished piece . I dreamt that I was admitted into a long ...
... imagination , that they formed in it a short morn- ing's dream , which I shall communicate to my rea- der , rather as the first sketch and outlines of a vision , than as a finished piece . I dreamt that I was admitted into a long ...
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... imagination nor her health would ever give her to know that she is turned of twenty ; but that in the midst of these pretty softnesses , and airs of delicacy and attraction , she has a tall daughter within a fortnight of fifteen , who ...
... imagination nor her health would ever give her to know that she is turned of twenty ; but that in the midst of these pretty softnesses , and airs of delicacy and attraction , she has a tall daughter within a fortnight of fifteen , who ...
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... imagination as far as possi- ble from what they had long themselves forgot , and ended his discourse with a sly commendation of the doctrine of Platonic love ; at the same time he ran over , with a laughing eye , Crastin's thin legs ...
... imagination as far as possi- ble from what they had long themselves forgot , and ended his discourse with a sly commendation of the doctrine of Platonic love ; at the same time he ran over , with a laughing eye , Crastin's thin legs ...
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... imagination and good - breeding are added to a sweet disposition , they qualify it to be one of the greatest blessings , as well as pleasures of life . Men would come into company with ten times the pleasure they do , if they were sure ...
... imagination and good - breeding are added to a sweet disposition , they qualify it to be one of the greatest blessings , as well as pleasures of life . Men would come into company with ten times the pleasure they do , if they were sure ...
Page 109
... imagination . As the beauty of the body always accompanies the health of it , so certainly is decency concomitant to virtue . As beauty of body , with an agreeable carriage , pleases the eye , and that pleasure consists in that we ...
... imagination . As the beauty of the body always accompanies the health of it , so certainly is decency concomitant to virtue . As beauty of body , with an agreeable carriage , pleases the eye , and that pleasure consists in that we ...
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Page 118 - I am the more at ease in Sir Roger's family, because it consists of sober and staid persons; for .as the knight is the best master in the world, he seldom changes his servants; and as he is beloved by all about him, his servants never care for leaving him : by this means his Domestics are all in years, and grown old with their master. You would take his valet de chambre for his brother: his butler is gray-headed ; his groom is one of the gravest men that I have ever seen ; and his coachman has the...
Page 367 - I had ever heard : they put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.
Page 370 - I here fetched a deep sigh. Alas, said I, man was made in vain ! how is he given away to misery and mortality ! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death ! The genius being moved with compassion towards me, bade me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. Look no more...
Page 386 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand: 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 everything 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.
Page 193 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself, seconded by the applauses of the public.
Page 144 - ... subjects, hear their duties explained to them, and join together in adoration of the Supreme Being. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week, not only as it refreshes in their minds the notions of religion, but as it puts both the sexes upon appearing in their most agreeable forms, and exerting all such qualities as are apt to give them a figure in the eye of the village.
Page 137 - The knight, seeing his habitation reduced to so small a compass, and himself in a manner shut out of his own house, upon the death of his mother ordered all the apartments to be flung open, and exorcised by his chaplain, who lay in every room one after another, and by that means dissipated the fears which had so long reigned in the family.
Page 119 - ... my friend Sir Roger, amidst all his good qualities, is something of an humorist; and that his virtues, as well as imperfections, are as it were tinged by a certain extravagance, which makes them particularly his, and distinguishes them from those of other men. This cast of mind, as it is generally very innocent in itself, so it renders his conversation highly agreeable, and more delightful than the same degree of sense and virtue would appear in their common and ordinary colours.
Page 118 - This humanity and good nature engages everybody to him; so that when he is pleasant upon any of them, all his family are in good humour, and none so much as the person whom he diverts himself with: on the contrary, if he coughs, or betrays any infirmity of old age, it is easy for a stander-by to observe a secret concern in the looks of all his servants.
Page 127 - ... of his game. He hunts a pack of dogs better than any man in the country, and is very famous for finding out a hare. He is extremely well versed in all the little handicrafts of an idle man. He makes a May-fly to a miracle ; and furnishes the whole country with angle-rods.