The Spectator. ...H. Hughs, 1789 |
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... lady alluded to , under the character of this widow . ‡ This fellow was a noted sharper , swaggerer , and de- bauchee about town , at the time here pointed out ; he was well known in Black Friars and it's then infamous purlieus . Oldys ...
... lady alluded to , under the character of this widow . ‡ This fellow was a noted sharper , swaggerer , and de- bauchee about town , at the time here pointed out ; he was well known in Black Friars and it's then infamous purlieus . Oldys ...
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... lady seemed to fet an unspeakable value upon these several pieces of furniture , insomuch that she often refreshed her eye with them , and often smiled with a secret pleasure , as the looked upon them ; but , at the fame time , shewed a ...
... lady seemed to fet an unspeakable value upon these several pieces of furniture , insomuch that she often refreshed her eye with them , and often smiled with a secret pleasure , as the looked upon them ; but , at the fame time , shewed a ...
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... lady's bed - chamber , or perching upon a king's throne ; besides the inconveniencies which the heads of the audience may sometimes suffer from them . I am credibly informed , that there was once a design of casting into an opera the ...
... lady's bed - chamber , or perching upon a king's throne ; besides the inconveniencies which the heads of the audience may sometimes suffer from them . I am credibly informed , that there was once a design of casting into an opera the ...
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... lady , however , recovering herself after a little space , said to her husband , with a figh , " My dear , misfortunes " never come single . " My friend , I found , act- ed but an under - part at his table , and being a man of more good ...
... lady , however , recovering herself after a little space , said to her husband , with a figh , " My dear , misfortunes " never come single . " My friend , I found , act- ed but an under - part at his table , and being a man of more good ...
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... lady seeing me quitting my knife and fork , and laying them across one another upon my plate , defired me that I would humour her so far as to take them out of that figure , and place them fide by side . What the abfurdity was which I ...
... lady seeing me quitting my knife and fork , and laying them across one another upon my plate , defired me that I would humour her so far as to take them out of that figure , and place them fide by side . What the abfurdity was which I ...
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Page 152 - 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 45 - When I lay me down to sleep, I recommend myself to his care; when I awake, I give myself up to his direction. Amidst all the evils that threaten me, I will look up to him for help, and question not but he will either avert them, or turn them to my advantage. Though I know neither the time nor the manner of the death I am to die, I am not at all solicitous about it; because I am sure that he knows them both, and that he will not fail to comfort and support me under them.
Page 74 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to...
Page 149 - When I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable.
Page 232 - To you, good gods, I make my last appeal ; Or clear my virtues, or my crimes reveal. If in the maze of fate I blindly run, And backward trod those paths I sought to shun, Impute my errors to your own decree : My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.
Page 412 - Scotland can witness be, I have not any captain more Of such account as he." Like tidings to King Henry came, Within as short a space, That Percy of Northumberland Was slain in Chevy-Chase. "Now God be with him...
Page 61 - I shall endeavour to point out all those imperfections that are the blemishes, as well as those virtues which are the embellishments of the sex. In the...
Page 151 - As a foreigner is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance or politeness of a nation from the turn of their public monuments and inscriptions, they should be submitted to the perusal of men of learning and genius before they are put in execution.
Page 273 - The truth of it is, a man is not qualified for a butt, who has not a good deal of wit and vivacity, even in the ridiculous side of his character. A stupid butt is only fit for the conversation of...
Page 5 - Cocoa-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 stockjobbers at Jonathan's.