The Spectator in miniature: being a collection of the principle essays, compressed into 2 vols. by F. Prevost and F.W. Blagdon, Volume 11808 |
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Página xxix
... conversation , and free it from thorns and prickles , which tease the passer , though they do not wound him . For this purpose nothing is so proper as the fre- quent publication of short papers , which we read not as study but amusement ...
... conversation , and free it from thorns and prickles , which tease the passer , though they do not wound him . For this purpose nothing is so proper as the fre- quent publication of short papers , which we read not as study but amusement ...
Página xxxvi
... conversation . The time in which he lived had reason to lament this defect in him , for he was above all men in that talent called humour . " ADDISON'S conversation , " says POPE , " had something in it more This anecdote , recorded of ...
... conversation . The time in which he lived had reason to lament this defect in him , for he was above all men in that talent called humour . " ADDISON'S conversation , " says POPE , " had something in it more This anecdote , recorded of ...
Página xxxvii
... conversation and practice of life , who without fortune or alliance , by his usefulness and dexterity , be- came Secretary of State : and who died at forty - seven , after having not only stood long in the highest rank of wit and ...
... conversation and practice of life , who without fortune or alliance , by his usefulness and dexterity , be- came Secretary of State : and who died at forty - seven , after having not only stood long in the highest rank of wit and ...
Página 16
... conversation , that it is impossible for a club or merry meeting to subsist without them ; I mean those honest gentlemen that are always exposed to the wit and rail- lery of their well - wishers and companions ; that are pelted by men ...
... conversation , that it is impossible for a club or merry meeting to subsist without them ; I mean those honest gentlemen that are always exposed to the wit and rail- lery of their well - wishers and companions ; that are pelted by men ...
Página 17
... conversation of ordinary people : men of wit require one that will give them play , and bestir himself in the absurd part of his behaviour . A butt with these accomplishments , frequently gets the laugh of his side , and turns the ...
... conversation of ordinary people : men of wit require one that will give them play , and bestir himself in the absurd part of his behaviour . A butt with these accomplishments , frequently gets the laugh of his side , and turns the ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
Acrostics ADDISON admired affect agreeable anagram animals appear Aristotle atheist Avarice beautiful behaviour behold Blanche of Castile body called character Cicero consider conversation creatures death delight divine dreams dress DRYDEN endeavour Eucrate excellent fancy favour Fidelio fortune genius gentleman George Etheridge give glory greatest habit hand happy heard heart Heaven Hesiod honour human humour ideas imagination infinite JOSEPH ADDISON kind king lady Lætitia laugh live look Lord mankind manner ment mind nature neral never nurse observe occasion opinion Ovid particular passion perfection person Pharamond Pict Pindar pleased pleasure poet praise present prince racter reader reason religion ROSCOMMON scenes sense sight sion Sir Richard Baker soul speak Spectator Tatler tell temper thing thou thought tion told Trophonius turn VIRG Virgil virtue Whig whilst whole woman wonderful words writings young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 42 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Página 40 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.
Página 96 - ... notwithstanding any anxieties which he pretends for his mistress, his country, or his friends, one may see by his action, that his greatest care and concern is to keep the plume of feathers from falling off his head.
Página 118 - 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.
Página 176 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to another, Surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Página 261 - WAS yesterday, about sun-set, walking in the open fields, till the night insensibly fell upon me. I at first amused myself with all the richness and variety of colours which appeared in the western parts of heaven ; in proportion as they faded away and went out, several stars and planets appeared one after another, till the whole firmament was in a glow.
Página 42 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man...
Página 186 - The single dress of a woman of quality is often the product of an hundred climates. The muff and the fan come together from the different ends of the earth. The scarf is sent from the torrid zone, and the tippet from beneath the pole. The brocade petticoat, rises out of the mines of Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Indostan.
Página 180 - I could discover nothing in it: but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Página 186 - Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate : our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines; our rooms are filled with pyramids of China, and adorned with the workmanship of Japan : our morning's draught comes to us from the remotest corners of the earth; we repair our bodies by the drugs of America, and repose ourselves under Indian canopies.