The Spectator [by J. Addison and others] with sketches of the lives of the authors, and explanatory notes. 12 vols. [in 6]., Volúmenes1-21853 |
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... characters and manners of the age . " " " It is allowed by all , that Steele had the merit of beginning and carrying on the Tatler , the first periodical work in England of which the subjects were literature , morality , and familiar ...
... characters and manners of the age . " " " It is allowed by all , that Steele had the merit of beginning and carrying on the Tatler , the first periodical work in England of which the subjects were literature , morality , and familiar ...
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... character among all persons of taste . In the year 1695 he wrote a poem on one of King William's campaigns , ad- dressed to Sir John , afterwards Lord Somers , Lord Keeper of the Great Seal , which introduced him to that statesman's ...
... character among all persons of taste . In the year 1695 he wrote a poem on one of King William's campaigns , ad- dressed to Sir John , afterwards Lord Somers , Lord Keeper of the Great Seal , which introduced him to that statesman's ...
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... character . Sir Richard Steele upon one occasion made the old knight guilty of a great inconsistency : * Mr. Addison warmly remonstrated with him , and would not leave his friend till he promised that he would no more meddle with his ...
... character . Sir Richard Steele upon one occasion made the old knight guilty of a great inconsistency : * Mr. Addison warmly remonstrated with him , and would not leave his friend till he promised that he would no more meddle with his ...
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... character . He wrote all the papers in the first seven volumes which in the common editions are marked with the letter X , amount- ing to twenty - eight in number : and the eighth volume was written chiefly by Budgell and Ad- dison . He ...
... character . He wrote all the papers in the first seven volumes which in the common editions are marked with the letter X , amount- ing to twenty - eight in number : and the eighth volume was written chiefly by Budgell and Ad- dison . He ...
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... character of a man of gay conversation , at least a temperate lover of wine and company , and in his domestic relations without censure . HENRY GROVE . HENRY GROVE , the author of four papers in the eighth volume , Nos . 588 , 601 , 626 ...
... character of a man of gay conversation , at least a temperate lover of wine and company , and in his domestic relations without censure . HENRY GROVE . HENRY GROVE , the author of four papers in the eighth volume , Nos . 588 , 601 , 626 ...
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Página 242 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Página 155 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Página 182 - Manlike, but different sex, so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the World, seem'd now Mean, or in her summ'd up...
Página 260 - 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...
Página 262 - 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.
Página 183 - Yet innocence and virgin modesty, Her virtue, and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won, Not obvious, not obtrusive, but...
Página 30 - Tree, and in the theatres both of Drury Lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stock-jobbers at Jonathan's.
Página 262 - At his first settling with me I made him a present of all the good sermons which have been printed in English, and only begged of him that every Sunday he would pronounce one of them in the pulpit. Accordingly he has digested them into such a series that they follow one another naturally, and make a continued system of practical divinity.
Página 34 - ... both in 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...
Página 152 - ... and enemies, priests and soldiers, monks and prebendaries, were crumbled amongst one another, and blended together in the same common mass ; how beauty, strength, and youth, with old age, weakness, and deformity, lay undistinguished in the same promiscuous heap of matter.