The Spectator ...Angier March, 1803 |
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... look into . One of them , however , I could not forbear observing , who was very busy in retouching the finest pieces , though he produced no originals of his own . His pencil aggravated every feature that was before overcharged ...
... look into . One of them , however , I could not forbear observing , who was very busy in retouching the finest pieces , though he produced no originals of his own . His pencil aggravated every feature that was before overcharged ...
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... look like a design of turning it into ridicule . But though the language is mean , the thoughts , as I have before said , from one end to the other , are natural , and there- fore cannot fail to please those who are not judges of ...
... look like a design of turning it into ridicule . But though the language is mean , the thoughts , as I have before said , from one end to the other , are natural , and there- fore cannot fail to please those who are not judges of ...
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... looks does conscious guilt appear ! ADDISON . THERE HERE are several arts which all men are in some measure masters of , without having been at the pains of learning them . Every one that speaks or reasons is a grammarian and a logician ...
... looks does conscious guilt appear ! ADDISON . THERE HERE are several arts which all men are in some measure masters of , without having been at the pains of learning them . Every one that speaks or reasons is a grammarian and a logician ...
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... looks , that I have sometimes employed myself from Charing - Cross to the Royal - Exchange in draw- ing the characters of those who have passed by me . When I see a man with a sour rivelled face , I cannot forbear pitying his wife : and ...
... looks , that I have sometimes employed myself from Charing - Cross to the Royal - Exchange in draw- ing the characters of those who have passed by me . When I see a man with a sour rivelled face , I cannot forbear pitying his wife : and ...
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... looks which 2 John Baptista Porta , a Neapolitan , who died in the year 1515 , leaving among other works , one " De Physiognomia , " which was printed at Leyden , 1645. See also Lavater on the same subject . shewed him to be strong ...
... looks which 2 John Baptista Porta , a Neapolitan , who died in the year 1515 , leaving among other works , one " De Physiognomia , " which was printed at Leyden , 1645. See also Lavater on the same subject . shewed him to be strong ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.