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Page 120
... conversation , than the false notion some people have of raillery . It ought certainly to be the first point to be aimed at in society , to gain the good- will of those with whom you converse . The way to that , is to shew you are well ...
... conversation , than the false notion some people have of raillery . It ought certainly to be the first point to be aimed at in society , to gain the good- will of those with whom you converse . The way to that , is to shew you are well ...
Page 130
... conversation is confined , ' insomuch that by Michaelmas , it is odds but we ' come to downright squabbling , and make as free with one another to our faces , as we do with the rest of the world behind their backs . After I have told ...
... conversation is confined , ' insomuch that by Michaelmas , it is odds but we ' come to downright squabbling , and make as free with one another to our faces , as we do with the rest of the world behind their backs . After I have told ...
Page 142
... to open their lips in conversation . It was not a little diverting the other day to observe a lady reading a post - letter , and at these words , After all her airs , he has heard some story or other 142 THE SPECTATOR .
... to open their lips in conversation . It was not a little diverting the other day to observe a lady reading a post - letter , and at these words , After all her airs , he has heard some story or other 142 THE SPECTATOR .
Page 151
... certain rustic mirth which ' renders him unfit for polite conversation . That he intends to prepare himself by abstinence and thin diet to be one of the company . That at present he comes into a room , as THE SPECTATOR . 151.
... certain rustic mirth which ' renders him unfit for polite conversation . That he intends to prepare himself by abstinence and thin diet to be one of the company . That at present he comes into a room , as THE SPECTATOR . 151.
Page 153
... conversations in the world have indulged human infirmity in this case . Your petitioner therefore most humbly prays , thất ' he may be restored to the company , and he hopes ' to bear ill fortune with a good grace for the future , ' and ...
... conversations in the world have indulged human infirmity in this case . Your petitioner therefore most humbly prays , thất ' he may be restored to the company , and he hopes ' to bear ill fortune with a good grace for the future , ' and ...
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Popular passages
Page 331 - I have set the LORD always before me : because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Page 305 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 297 - There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: 15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Page 199 - The Lord my pasture shall prepare. And feed me with a shepherd's care; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye; My noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 318 - Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio. A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times. And now how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? Your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar...
Page 70 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest "variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Page 16 - Grace, let not any light fancy or bad counsel of mine enemies withdraw your princely favour from me ; neither let that stain, that unworthy stain of a disloyal heart towards your good Grace ever cast so foul a blot on your most dutiful wife, and the infant princess, your daughter.
Page 70 - It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas ; so that by the pleasures of the imagination, or fancy, (which I shall use promiscuously,) I here mean such as arise from visible objects, either when we have them actually in our view, or when we call up their ideas into our minds by paintings, statues, descriptions, or any the like occasion.
Page 318 - Horatio : a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy : he hath borne me on his back a thousand times ; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is ! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar...
Page 200 - Though in the paths of death I tread, With gloomy horrors overspread ; My steadfast heart shall fear no ill, For thou, O Lord, art with me still ; Thy friendly crook shall give me aid, And guide me through the dreadful shade Though in a bare and rugged way, Through devious lonely wilds I stray.