Essays of Richard SteeleMacmillan, 1902 - 358 pagine |
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Pagina 16
... meet with here in the country , has confirmed me in the opinion I always had , that the general corruption of manners in servants is owing to the conduct of masters . The aspect of every one in the family carries so much satisfaction ...
... meet with here in the country , has confirmed me in the opinion I always had , that the general corruption of manners in servants is owing to the conduct of masters . The aspect of every one in the family carries so much satisfaction ...
Pagina 21
... meet me among his relations the De Coverleys , and hoped I liked the conversation of so much good company , who were as silent as myself . I knew he alluded to the pictures ,. and as he is a gentleman who does not a little value himself ...
... meet me among his relations the De Coverleys , and hoped I liked the conversation of so much good company , who were as silent as myself . I knew he alluded to the pictures ,. and as he is a gentleman who does not a little value himself ...
Pagina 38
... meet with among men who are used to adjust and methodise their thoughts . I was this evening walking in the fields with my friend Captain Sentry , and I could not , from the many relations which I drew him into of what passed when he ...
... meet with among men who are used to adjust and methodise their thoughts . I was this evening walking in the fields with my friend Captain Sentry , and I could not , from the many relations which I drew him into of what passed when he ...
Pagina 39
... we should draw resolution to meet it from the impossibility to escape it . Without a resignation to the necessity of dying , there can be no capacity in man to attempt anything that is glorious : CAPTAIN SENTRY ON THE SOLDIER'S LIFE 39.
... we should draw resolution to meet it from the impossibility to escape it . Without a resignation to the necessity of dying , there can be no capacity in man to attempt anything that is glorious : CAPTAIN SENTRY ON THE SOLDIER'S LIFE 39.
Pagina 41
... meet will serve as well as he whom you have lived with half your life . To such the devastation of countries , the misery of inhabitants , the cries of the pillaged , and the silent sorrow of the great unfortunate , are ordinary objects ...
... meet will serve as well as he whom you have lived with half your life . To such the devastation of countries , the misery of inhabitants , the cries of the pillaged , and the silent sorrow of the great unfortunate , are ordinary objects ...
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acquaintance admiration affection agreeable ambition appear beauty behaviour behold Bickerstaff character charms circumstances CLARE MARKET coffee-house conversation Cottius countenance court Covent Garden creature Damia delight desire discourse dress entertain esquires Eubulus excellent eyes fair sex falchion favour flatter fortune gentleman give happy head heard heart honour hour humour Hungary water husband imagination impertinent innocent ISAAC BICKERSTAFF James Miller kind lady laugh letter live look lover mankind manner marriage matter merit methinks mind mirth morning nature never night obliged observe occasion ordinary passion periwig person pleased pleasure porringer pretty Pyrrha reason Richard Steele satisfaction Scornful Lady sense servant Sir Roger smile sorrow speak Spectator spirit spleen talk Tatler tell temper Temple Bar tender things thought tion told town turn vanity virtue whole wife woman women word young
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Pagina 63 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Pagina 82 - Hail wedded Love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother first were known.
Pagina 8 - This way of talking of his very much enlivens the conversation among us of a more sedate turn ; and I find there is not one of the company, but myself, who rarely speak at all, but speaks of him as of that sort of man, who is usually called a well-bred fine gentleman. To conclude his character, where women are not concerned, he is an honest, worthy man. I cannot tell whether I am to account him whom I am next to speak of as one of our company...
Pagina 64 - Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Pagina 4 - But being ill-used by the above-mentioned widow, he was very serious for a year and a half ; and though, his temper being naturally jovial, he at last got over it, he grew careless of himself, and never dressed afterwards. He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that were in fashion at the time of his repulse...
Pagina 3 - All who know that shire are very well acquainted with the parts 5 and merits of Sir Roger. He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world only as he thinks the world is in the wrong.
Pagina 58 - My friend, who is always extremely delighted with her agreeable humour, made her sit down with us. She did it with that easiness which is peculiar to women of sense; and to keep up the good humour she had brought in with her, turned her raillery upon me.
Pagina 8 - He is very ready at that sort of discourse with which men usually entertain women. He has all his life dressed very well, and remembers habits as others do men. He can smile when one speaks to him, and laughs easily. He knows the history of every mode, and can inform you from which of the French king's wenches, our wives and daughters had this manner of curling their hair, that way of placing their hoods; whose frailty was covered by such a sort of petticoat, and whose vanity to show her foot made...
Pagina 63 - Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild: then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train: But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk...
Pagina 97 - ... his hat. When there happens to be any thing ridiculous in a visage, and the owner of it thinks it an aspect of dignity, he must be of very great quality to be exempt from raillery. The best expedient therefore is to be pleasant upon himself. Prince Harry and Falstaff, in Shakspeare, have carried the ridicule upon fat and lean, as far as it will go. Falstaff is humurously called woolsack, bedpresser, and hill of flesh : Harry, a starveling, an elves-skin, a sheath, a bow-case, and a tuck.