The Spectator, Volume 1W. Wilson, 1778 |
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... same time I can say this of him , that there is not a point in the compass but blows home a ship in which he is an owner . Next to fir ANDREW in the club - room fits cap- tain SENTRY , a gentleman of great courage , good understanding ...
... same time I can say this of him , that there is not a point in the compass but blows home a ship in which he is an owner . Next to fir ANDREW in the club - room fits cap- tain SENTRY , a gentleman of great courage , good understanding ...
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... same frankness runs through all his conversation . The military part of his life has furnished him with many adventures , in the relation of which he is very agreeable to the company ; for he is never overbearing , though accustomed to ...
... same frankness runs through all his conversation . The military part of his life has furnished him with many adventures , in the relation of which he is very agreeable to the company ; for he is never overbearing , though accustomed to ...
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... I heard , upon inquiry , that she had the same virtue in her touch , which the poets tell us a Lydian king was formerly 20 N ° 3 . THE SPECTATOR . On impudence; the difference between English, Scorch, and Irish impudence.
... I heard , upon inquiry , that she had the same virtue in her touch , which the poets tell us a Lydian king was formerly 20 N ° 3 . THE SPECTATOR . On impudence; the difference between English, Scorch, and Irish impudence.
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... found not above a tenth part of them had been filled with money . The reft that took up the same space and made the fame figure as the bags that were really filled N ° 3 . 21 THE SPECTATOR . On the professions of divinity, law and phyfic.
... found not above a tenth part of them had been filled with money . The reft that took up the same space and made the fame figure as the bags that were really filled N ° 3 . 21 THE SPECTATOR . On the professions of divinity, law and phyfic.
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... same time I shall not think myself obliged , by this pro- mife , to conceal any false protestations which I observe made by glances in public assemblies ; but endeavour to make both fexes appear in their conduct what they are in their ...
... same time I shall not think myself obliged , by this pro- mife , to conceal any false protestations which I observe made by glances in public assemblies ; but endeavour to make both fexes appear in their conduct what they are in their ...
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Page 107 - 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 tombstone, 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 12 - I have acted in all the parts of my life as a looker-on, which is the character I intend to preserve in this paper.
Page 106 - I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark and dismal thoughts in timorous minds and gloomy imaginations ; but for my own part, though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view of nature, in her deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones.
Page 35 - In the midst of these my musings, she desired me to reach her a little salt upon the point of my knife, which I did in such a trepidation and hurry of obedience, that I let it drop by the way, at which she immediately startled, and said it fell towards her.
Page 273 - ... common interest. Almost every degree produces something peculiar to it ; the food often grows in one country, and the sauce in another. The fruits of Portugal are corrected by the products of Barbadoes. The infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian cane.
Page 30 - ... stage might be as much infested with mice, as the prince of the island was before the cat's arrival upon it; for which reason he would not permit it to be acted in his house. And indeed I cannot blame him: for, as he said very well upon that occasion, I do not hear that any of the performers in our opera pretend to equal the famous pied piper, who made all the mice of a great town in Germany follow his music, and by that means cleared the place of those little noxious animals.
Page 17 - With this candour does the gentleman speak of himself and others. The same frankness runs through all his conversation. The military part of his life has...
Page 9 - 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 200 - I could not observe any circumstance of devotion in their behaviour. There was indeed a man in black, who was mounted above the rest, and seemed to utter something with a great deal of vehemence ; but as for those underneath him, instead of paying their worship to the deity of the place, they were most of them bowing and curtseying to one another, and a considerable number of them fast asleep.
Page 275 - So, on the contrary, an ordinary Song or Ballad that is the Delight of the common People, cannot fail to please all such Readers as are not unqualified for the Entertainment by their Affectation or Ignorance; and the Reason is plain, because the same Paintings of Nature which recommend it to the most ordinary Reader, will appear Beautiful to the most refined.