The Spectator, 3. kötetGeorge Gregory Smith J.M. Dent & Company, 1897 |
Részletek a könyvből
1 - 5 találat összesen 30 találatból.
31. oldal
... hope you will not omit the Mention of the renowned Socrates , and his philosophick Resig nation to his Wife Xantippe . This would be a very good Office to the World in general , for the Hen peckt are powerful in their Quality and ...
... hope you will not omit the Mention of the renowned Socrates , and his philosophick Resig nation to his Wife Xantippe . This would be a very good Office to the World in general , for the Hen peckt are powerful in their Quality and ...
37. oldal
... hope for no Relief but from himself ; and yet he that has Sense and Justice in every thing else , never reflects , that to come home only to sleep off an Intemperance , and spend all the Time he is there as if it were a Punish- ment ...
... hope for no Relief but from himself ; and yet he that has Sense and Justice in every thing else , never reflects , that to come home only to sleep off an Intemperance , and spend all the Time he is there as if it were a Punish- ment ...
39. oldal
... hope that Flesh and Blood is capable of so strict an Allegiance , as that a fine Woman must go on to improve her self ' till she is as good and impassive as an Angel , only to preserve a Fidelity to a Brute and a Satyr . The Lady who ...
... hope that Flesh and Blood is capable of so strict an Allegiance , as that a fine Woman must go on to improve her self ' till she is as good and impassive as an Angel , only to preserve a Fidelity to a Brute and a Satyr . The Lady who ...
40. oldal
... hope to find some thing Solid , and full of deep Reflection , is very often insensibly betrayed into a Fit of Mirth . In a word , the Reader sits down to my Entertainment without knowing his Bill of Fare , and has therefore at least the ...
... hope to find some thing Solid , and full of deep Reflection , is very often insensibly betrayed into a Fit of Mirth . In a word , the Reader sits down to my Entertainment without knowing his Bill of Fare , and has therefore at least the ...
43. oldal
... hope you will oblige the World with some Reflections upon Yawning , as I have seen it practised on a Twelfth Night , among other Christmas Gambols , at the House of a very worthy Gentleman , who always entertains his Tenants at that ...
... hope you will oblige the World with some Reflections upon Yawning , as I have seen it practised on a Twelfth Night , among other Christmas Gambols , at the House of a very worthy Gentleman , who always entertains his Tenants at that ...
Más kiadások - Összes megtekintése
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
acquainted Actions ADDISON Admiration agreeable Alcibiades Ambrose Philips appear Author beautiful Behaviour Castilian Character consider Conversation Country Creature Desire Discourse endeavour Entertainment Eustace Budgell Fable Father Favour Fortune Friday Friend Gentleman give Happiness Heart Herod Hesiod Honour Horace Hudibras Human humble Servant Humour Husband Hyæna Iliad Imagination Innocence Juvenal kind Labour Lady Leap Letter live look Love Lover Lover's Leap Mankind manner Matter mean Mind Monday Motto Nature never Number obliged observe Occasion October October 25 October 31 October 9 Opinion Ovid Pain Paper particular Passion Person Place pleased Pleasure Plutarch Poet present Publick Reader Reason Religion Renegado Salamander Sappho Saturday Satyr Sense Sept shew Socrates Soul Species SPECTATOR Speculation Spirit STEELE Subject tell Temper thing Thoughts Thursday tion Town Tuesday Virgil Virtue virtuous Wednes whole Wife Woman Women Words World write young
Népszerű szakaszok
175. oldal - only finds it What Sculpture is to a Block of Marble, Education is to an Human SouL The Philosopher, the Saint, or the Hero, the Wise, the Good, or the Great Man, very often lie hid and concealed in a Plebean, which a proper Education might have disenterred, and have brought to Light
160. oldal - Lord Cardinal/ if thou think'st on Heaven's Bliss Hold up thy Hand, make Signal of that Hope! He dies, and makes no Sign ! The Despair which is here shewn, without a Word or Action on the Part of the dying Person, is beyond what
174. oldal - If my Reader will give me leave to change the Allusion so soon upon him, I shall make use of the same Instance to illustrate the Force of Education, which Aristotle has brought to explain his Doctrine of Sub/ stantial Forms, when he tells us, that a Statue lies hid in
211. oldal - Minds« Discretion points out the noblest Ends to us, and pursues the most proper and laudable Methods of attaining them; Cunning has only private selfish Aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed« Discretion has large and extended Views, and, like a well/formed Eye, commands a whole
35. oldal - in that one Sentence/ says he, 'than in a library of Sermons ; and indeed if those Sentences were understood by the Reader, with the same Emphasis as they are delivered by the Author, we needed not those Volumes of Instructions, but might be honest by an Epitome/ ' Since I am thus insensibly engaged in Sacred
210. oldal - some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in Words, This sort of Discretion, however, has no Place in private Conversation between intimate Friends, On such Occasions the wisest Men very often Talk like the weakest; for indeed the Talking with a Friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
174. oldal - I CONSIDER an Human Soul without Education like Marble in the Quarry, which shews none of its inherent Beauties, till the Skill of the Polisher fetches out the Colours, makes the Surface shine, and discovers every ornamental Cloud, Spot and Vein that runs thro' the Body of it Education, after the same manner, when it works upon a noble Mind, draws out to
36. oldal - when evil found him, Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his souL The stranger did not lodge in the street/ but I opened my doors to the traveller, If my land
212. oldal - Cunning is often to be met with in Brutes themselves, and in Persons who are but the fewest Removes from them* In short, Cunning is only the Mimick of Discretion, and may pass upon weak Men, in the same manner as Vivacity is often mistaken for Wit, and Gravity for Wisdom/
212. oldal - is the Perfection of Reason, and a Guide to us in all the Duties of Life ; Cunning is a kind of Instinct, that only looks out after our immediate Interest and Welfare* Discretion is only found in Men of strong Sense and good Understandings