The Spectator

Εξώφυλλο
Putnam, 1856
 

Περιεχόμενα

Letter from a ValetudinarianExcess of Anxiety about Health
75
Reflections in WestminsterAbbey
79
Project of an Office for the Regulation of Signsa Mon key recommended for the Opera
83
Italian RecitativeAbsurdities of the Opera Dresses
87
Project of a new Opera
92
Success of the Spectators with various Classes of Read ers represented by the Club
96
False Wit and HumourGenealogy of Humour
100
Catalogue of a Ladys LibraryCharacter of Leonora
104
English TragedyLeeOtway
109
Tragedy and TragiComedy
114
English TragedyMethods to aggrandize the Persons in Tragedy
119
Stage Tricks to excite PityDramatic Murders
123
Consequences of the PeaceFrench FashionsChild ish Impertinence
129
The Spectators Paper of Hints droppedGospelgossip Ogling
136
Theory of the Passion of Laughter
137
Remarks on the English by the Indian Kings
142
Effects of Avarice and Luxury on Employments
149
Vision of Marraton
153
Mischiefs of PartyRage in the Female Sex
158
Essay on WitHistory of False Wit
162
The same subject continued
167
Wit of the Monkish Ages in Modern Times
172
The Subject continued
177
Difference between True and False WitMixt Wit
181
Allegory of several Schemes of Wit
188
On Friendship
194
Commerce
198
Critique on the Ballad of ChevyChase
203
Account of the Everlasting Club
211
Passion for Fame and PraiseCharacter of the Idols
214
Continuation of the Critique on ChevyChase
218
Female PartySpirit discovered by Patches
225
Dream of a Picture Gallery
230
Fate of WritingsBallad of the Children in the Wood
235
On Physiognomy
239
LoversDemurrageFolly of Demurrage
244
Punishment of a voluptuous Man after DeathAdven ture of M Pontigna
249
Books for a Ladys Library
253
Proper Methods of employing Time
257
Subject continuedPursuit of Knowledge
262
Ladies Headdresses
267
The Chief Point of Honour in Men and WomenDuel ling
271
Uncertainty of FameSpecimen of a History of the Reign of Anne I
275
Exercise of the Fan
280
Will Honeycombs Knowledge of the Worldvarious Kinds of Pedants
283
Spectators visit to Sir R de Coverleys Country Seat the Knights domestic Establishment
287
Character of Will Wimble
291
On Ghosts and Apparitions
295
Immateriality of the Soul
300
Mischiefs of Party Spirit
344
The Subject continuedSir Rogers Principles
350
Letter on the Hooppetticoat
354
Difference of Temper in the SexesFemale Levity
358
Fashions in DressHow imitated in the Country
362
Interview of the Spectator and Sir Roger with a Gang of Gypsies
366
Opinions entertained of the Spectator in the Country Letter from Will Honeycomb
369
Blessing of Being born an EnglishmanThe English Tongue
373
The Vision of Mirza
377
On great natural Geniuses
383
On Inconstancy and Irresolution
388
Consolation
392
Story of Theodosius and Constantia
396
Introduction of French Phrases in the History of the WarSpecimen in a Letter
403
Durability of WritingAnecdote of an atheistical Au thor
407
On Goodnature as the Effect of Constitution
411
On Jealousy
420
Account of a Grinningmatch
427
Goodnature as a Moral Virtue
431
Various Dispositions of ReadersAccount of a Whist lingmatchYawning
436
Cruelty of Parents in the Affair of Marriage
441
On FableFable of Pleasure and Pain 2
446
THE SPECTATOR Continued 184 Account of a remarkable Sleeper
451
Zeal various Kinds of Zealots
454
On Infidelity
458
Cruelty of ParentsLetter from a Father to his Son Duty to Parents
462
On the Whims of LotteryAdventurers
466
On Temperance
471
Character of the SalamandersStory of a Castilian and his Wife
476
DevotionEnthusiasm
480
On Seducers and their illicit ProgenyLetter from a natural Son
482
Description of a Female Panderaffected Method of PsalmsingingErratum in the Paper on Drink ing
489
Notions of the Heathen on Devotion
494
Simonidess Satire on Women
499
Transmigration of SoulsLetters on Simonidess Satire on Women
504
Educationcompared to Sculpture NEGROES
513
On habitual good Intentions
517
Use of MottoesLove of Latin among the Common peo pleSignature Letters
521
Account of Sappho
528
Discretion and Cunning
530
Letter on the Lovers Leap
534
Fragment of Sappho
539
Reflections on Modesty
543
History of the Lovers Leap
548
Account of the Trunkmaker in the Theatre
552
On the Ways of Providence
556
Various Ways of managing a Debate
560
Letter on the Absence of LoversRemedies proposed
564
On the Beauty and Loveliness of Virtue
568

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Σελίδα 48 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Σελίδα 12 - It is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him.
Σελίδα 83 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Σελίδα 381 - 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.
Σελίδα 381 - I observed some with scimitars in their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trap-doors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped, had they not been thus forced upon them. "The genius, seeing me indulge myself in this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it. ' Take thine eyes off the bridge,' said he, ' and tell me if thou yet seest anything thou dost not comprehend.' Upon looking up,...
Σελίδα 220 - The stout Earl of Northumberland, A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer's days to take; The chiefest harts in Chevy-Chase To kill and bear away.
Σελίδα 289 - ... 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 mind, as it is generally very innocent in itself, so it renders his conversation highly agreeable, and more delightful than the same degree of sense and virtue would appear in their common and ordinary colours.
Σελίδα 6 - Cocoa-tree, and in the theatres both of Drury-lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stockjobbers at Jonathan's.
Σελίδα 379 - I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life ; consider it attentively.
Σελίδα 302 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.

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