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Strona xi
... new literary form of the newspaper to educate the society of his day - to improve the morals of the upper class and the manners of the middle class . The dramatic fiction of the Spectator's Club assisted him in INTRODUCTION xi.
... new literary form of the newspaper to educate the society of his day - to improve the morals of the upper class and the manners of the middle class . The dramatic fiction of the Spectator's Club assisted him in INTRODUCTION xi.
Strona xiv
... moral qualities of an artist upon his own pictures and the effect of the moral qualities of the critic upon the popular estimation of a living artist's work . XIV.-XV. Steele had contributed the first sketch of Sir Roger de Coverley to ...
... moral qualities of an artist upon his own pictures and the effect of the moral qualities of the critic upon the popular estimation of a living artist's work . XIV.-XV. Steele had contributed the first sketch of Sir Roger de Coverley to ...
Strona xvii
... morality is neither dangerously lax nor impracticably rigid . All the enchantment of fancy and all the cogency of argument are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest , the care of pleasing the Author of his being . Truth ...
... morality is neither dangerously lax nor impracticably rigid . All the enchantment of fancy and all the cogency of argument are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest , the care of pleasing the Author of his being . Truth ...
Strona 16
... moral nor design in it , and cannot be so properly called a dream as a delirium . Methoughts the shilling that lay upon the table reared it- self upon its edge , and turning the face towards me , opened its mouth , and in a soft silver ...
... moral nor design in it , and cannot be so properly called a dream as a delirium . Methoughts the shilling that lay upon the table reared it- self upon its edge , and turning the face towards me , opened its mouth , and in a soft silver ...
Strona 29
... morality with wit , and to temper wit with morality , that my readers may , if possible , both ways find their account in the speculation of the day . And to the end that their virtue and discretion may not be short , transient ...
... morality with wit , and to temper wit with morality , that my readers may , if possible , both ways find their account in the speculation of the day . And to the end that their virtue and discretion may not be short , transient ...
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Strona 68 - The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life ; consider it attentively. Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which, added to those that were entire, made up the number about an hundred.
Strona 67 - Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to another, " Surely," said I, " man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Strona 68 - But tell me further, said he, what thou discoverest on it. I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it. As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon...
Strona 82 - Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow ; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
Strona 60 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself or sends his servants to them.
Strona 78 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Strona 70 - I could discover nothing in it: but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Strona 61 - I was yesterday very much surprised to hear my old friend, in the midst of the service, calling out to one John Matthews to mind what he was about, and not disturb the congregation. This John Matthews it seems is remarkable for being an idle fellow, and at that time was kicking his heels for his diversion.
Strona 57 - I have observed in several of my papers that my friend Sir Roger, amidst all his good qualities, is something of a humorist ; and that his virtues, as well as imperfections, are, as it were, tinged by a certain extravagance which makes them particularly his, and distinguishes them from those of other men. This cast of...
Strona 67 - man is but a shadow and life a dream.' Whilst I was thus musing, I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me, where I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a musical instrument in his hand.