The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumen7 |
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... sense is not the ground - work . Boileau has endeavoured to inculcate the same notion in se- veral parts of his writings , both in prose and verse . This is that natural way of writing , that beautiful simplicity , which we so much ...
... sense is not the ground - work . Boileau has endeavoured to inculcate the same notion in se- veral parts of his writings , both in prose and verse . This is that natural way of writing , that beautiful simplicity , which we so much ...
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... Petits Esprits , such things as are our upper - gallery au- dience in a playhouse ; who like nothing but the husk and rind of wit , and prefer a quibble , a con- ceit , an epigram , before solid sense and elegant No 62 . 7 SPECTATOR .
... Petits Esprits , such things as are our upper - gallery au- dience in a playhouse ; who like nothing but the husk and rind of wit , and prefer a quibble , a con- ceit , an epigram , before solid sense and elegant No 62 . 7 SPECTATOR .
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... sense ( as they may by reading better books , and by conversation with men of judgment ) they soon . forsake them . " I must not dismiss this subject without observing , that as Mr. Locke in the passage abovementioned has discovered the ...
... sense ( as they may by reading better books , and by conversation with men of judgment ) they soon . forsake them . " I must not dismiss this subject without observing , that as Mr. Locke in the passage abovementioned has discovered the ...
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... sense ; but at present I shall confine my consideration to the effect it has upon men's minds , by looking into our behaviour when it is the fashion to go into mourning . The custom of representing the grief we have for the loss of the ...
... sense ; but at present I shall confine my consideration to the effect it has upon men's minds , by looking into our behaviour when it is the fashion to go into mourning . The custom of representing the grief we have for the loss of the ...
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... on such an occasion the sense of the uncer- tainty of human life in general , by assuming the ha- bit of sorrow , though in the full possession of triumph and royalty . 6 R. N ° 65. TUESDAY , MAY 15 , 1711 . 18 No 64 . SPECTATOR .
... on such an occasion the sense of the uncer- tainty of human life in general , by assuming the ha- bit of sorrow , though in the full possession of triumph and royalty . 6 R. N ° 65. TUESDAY , MAY 15 , 1711 . 18 No 64 . SPECTATOR .
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 136 - 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 235 - ... than blemish his good qualities. As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side, and every- now and then...
Página 225 - The ideas of goblins and sprights have really no more to do with darkness than light : yet let but a foolish maid inculcate these often on the mind of a child, and raise them there together, possibly , he shall never be able to separate them again so long as he lives ; but darkness shall ever afterwards bring with it those frightful ideas, and they shall be so joined, that he can no more bear the one than the other...
Página 232 - That cherubim, which now appears as a god to a human soul, knows very well that the period will come about in eternity, when the human soul shall be as perfect as he himself now is; nay, when she shall look down upon that degree of perfection as much as she now falls short of it.
Página 216 - ... 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.
Página 280 - 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.
Página 232 - ... as much as she now falls short of it. It is true, the higher nature still advances, and by that means preserves his distance...
Página 211 - ... approved of my friend's insisting upon the qualifications of a good aspect and a clear voice; for I was so charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and delivery, as well as with the discourses he pronounced, that I think I never passed any time more to my satisfaction. A sermon repeated after this manner, is like the composition of a poet in the mouth of a graceful actor.
Página 210 - I know his value, have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than perhaps he thinks he is. He has now been with me thirty years; and, though he does...
Página 218 - Will Wimble's is the case of many a younger brother of a great family, who had rather see their children starve like gentlemen than thrive in a trade or profession that is beneath their quality.