The Spectator ...Angier March, 1803 |
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Side 31
... youth within such and such districts . I know , in particular , goods are not entered as they ought to be at the custom- house , nor law - reports perused at the Temple , by reason of one beauty who detains the young mer- chants too ...
... youth within such and such districts . I know , in particular , goods are not entered as they ought to be at the custom- house , nor law - reports perused at the Temple , by reason of one beauty who detains the young mer- chants too ...
Side 39
... youth ; that she drilled him on to five and fifty , and that he verily believes she will drop him in his old age , if she can find her account in another . I shall conclude this narrative with a letter from ho- 1 A serjeant at law ...
... youth ; that she drilled him on to five and fifty , and that he verily believes she will drop him in his old age , if she can find her account in another . I shall conclude this narrative with a letter from ho- 1 A serjeant at law ...
Side 44
... youth who goes on in a continued course of voluptuousness , advances by degrees into a libidinous old man ; and that the passion survives in the mind when it is altogether dead in the body ; nay , that the desire grows more violent ...
... youth who goes on in a continued course of voluptuousness , advances by degrees into a libidinous old man ; and that the passion survives in the mind when it is altogether dead in the body ; nay , that the desire grows more violent ...
Side 50
... youth their follies , not be- cause they are themselves past them , but because they love to continue in them . These beauties rivat each other on all occasions , not that they have always had the same lovers , but each has kept up a ...
... youth their follies , not be- cause they are themselves past them , but because they love to continue in them . These beauties rivat each other on all occasions , not that they have always had the same lovers , but each has kept up a ...
Side 52
... youth . Tulip sung , danced , moved before the glass , led his mistress half a minuet , hum- med ' Celia the fair , in the bloom of fifteen ! ' when there came a servant with a letter to him , which was as follows : SIR , I UNDERSTAND ...
... youth . Tulip sung , danced , moved before the glass , led his mistress half a minuet , hum- med ' Celia the fair , in the bloom of fifteen ! ' when there came a servant with a letter to him , which was as follows : SIR , I UNDERSTAND ...
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acquaintance ADDISON admirers agreeable animals appear beauty behaviour body character Constantia conversation creature daugh death discourse dress DRYDEN endeavour entertain Epig Eucrate Eudoxus eyes fair sex father favour fortune friend Sir Roger genius gentleman give Glaphyra Great-Britain greatest happy hear heard heart honest honour human humble servant humour impertinent John Sharpe kind knight lady Laertes learned letter live look lover mankind manner marriage master mind nature neral never obliged observe occasion ordinary OVID paper particular pass passion person Pharamond Pindar Plato Platonic love pleased pleasure present reader reason ribaldry sense shew Socrates sorrow soul speak SPECTATOR STEELE tell temper thee Theodosius thing thou thought tion told Tom Short town VIRG virtue whig whole woman women words write young youth
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Side 144 - ... subjects, hear their duties explained to them, and join together in adoration of the Supreme Being. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week, not only as it refreshes in their minds the notions of religion, but as it puts both the sexes upon appearing in their most agreeable forms, and exerting all such qualities as are apt to give them a figure in the eye of the village.
Side 368 - Examine now, said he, this sea that is bounded with darkness at both ends, and tell me what thou discoverest in it. I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide.
Side 369 - ... them into the tide and immediately disappeared. These hidden pitfalls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Side 367 - I had ever heard : they put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.
Side 119 - Roger, and has lived at his house in the nature of a chaplain above thirty years. This gentleman is a person of good sense and some learning, of a very regular life and obliging conversation: he heartily loves Sir Roger, and knows that he is very much in the old knight's esteem, so that he lives in the family rather as a relation than a dependant.
Side 371 - I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats ; but the genius told me there was no passage to them except through the gates...
Side 164 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Side 366 - I was at Grand Cairo I picked up several oriental manuscripts, which I have still by me. Among others I met with one entitled, " The Visions of Mirzah," which I have read over with great pleasure.
Side 193 - 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.
Side 127 - ... 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.