The Spectator, Volume 4William Durell and Company, 1810 - English literature |
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... behavior rough and absurd . Is this creature to be accounted the successor of a man of virtue , wit , and breeding ? At the same time that I have this melancholy pros- pect at the house where I miss my old friend , I can go to a ...
... behavior rough and absurd . Is this creature to be accounted the successor of a man of virtue , wit , and breeding ? At the same time that I have this melancholy pros- pect at the house where I miss my old friend , I can go to a ...
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... behavior , or regard to shew an inclination to please them , would make them entirely at ease . Do not such women deserve all the misinterpretation which they neglect to avoid ? or are they not in the actual practice of guilt , who care ...
... behavior , or regard to shew an inclination to please them , would make them entirely at ease . Do not such women deserve all the misinterpretation which they neglect to avoid ? or are they not in the actual practice of guilt , who care ...
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... behavior , and some of the most indifferent actions of their lives . It is this air , diffusing itself over the whole man , which helps us to find out a person at his first appearance ; so that the most careless ob- server fancies he ...
... behavior , and some of the most indifferent actions of their lives . It is this air , diffusing itself over the whole man , which helps us to find out a person at his first appearance ; so that the most careless ob- server fancies he ...
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... behavior in a battle that was fought some years be- fore either the Templar or myself were born . The young lawyer immediately took me up , and by rea- soning above a quarter of an hour upon a subject which I saw he understood nothing ...
... behavior in a battle that was fought some years be- fore either the Templar or myself were born . The young lawyer immediately took me up , and by rea- soning above a quarter of an hour upon a subject which I saw he understood nothing ...
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... behavior , determined , about the fiftieth year of his age , to enter upon wedlock . In order to make himself easy in it , he cast his eyes upon a young woman who had nothing to recommend her but her beauty and her education , her ...
... behavior , determined , about the fiftieth year of his age , to enter upon wedlock . In order to make himself easy in it , he cast his eyes upon a young woman who had nothing to recommend her but her beauty and her education , her ...
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Page 304 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 287 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
Page 164 - 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 275 - It has been said in the praise of some men, that they could talk whole hours together upon any thing ; but it must be owned to the honour of the other sex, that there are many among them who can talk whole hours together upon nothing.
Page 295 - I am always pleased with that particular time of the year which is proper for the pickling of dill and cucumbers; but, alas! this cry, like the song of the nightingale, is not heard above two months. It would therefore be worth while to consider, whether the same air might not in some cases be adapted to other words.
Page 133 - Education, after the same manner, when it works upon a noble mind, draws out to view every latent virtue and perfection, which, without such helps, are never able to make their appearance.
Page 287 - And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And, if I give thee honor due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Page 304 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes With sure returns of still expected rhymes: Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze...
Page 231 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate— Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Page 286 - Dame, as Waller has translated it, and is represented by Horace as the goddess who delights in laughter. Milton, in a joyous assembly of imaginary persons, has given us a very poetical figure of laughter. His whole band of mirth is so finely described, that I shall set down the passage at length.