 | 1853 - 524 pages
...on a mountebank's stage, or to be master of the ceremonies in a bear-gnrden; yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their...conversation with men of judgment) they soon forsake them." I must not dismiss this subject without observing, that as Mr. Locke, in the passage above-mentioned,... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 596 pages
...on a mountebank's stage, or to be master of the ceremonies in a bear-garden; yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their...conversation with men of judgment) they soon forsake them.' I must not dismiss this subject without observing, that as Mr. Locke, in the passage abovementioned,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1853 - 544 pages
...But it often happens, to their mortification, that as their readers improve their stock of sense (us they may by reading better books, and by conversation with men of judgment), they soon forsake them.' I must not dismiss this subject without observing, that as Mr. Locke, in the passage above-mentioned,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 626 pages
...signifying to vote ; but, in propricty of speech, the poll only ascertains the majority of votes.— C. happens, to their mortification, that as their readers...with men of judgment), they soon forsake • them. I must not dismiss this subjeet without observing, that as Mr. Locke, in the passage above-mentioned,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1854 - 618 pages
...propriety of speech, the poll only ascertains the majority of votes. — C. 188 SPECTATOR. [K<i f&. happens, to their mortification, that as their readers...conversation with men of judgment), they soon forsake them. I must not dismiss this subject without observing, that as Mr. Locke, in the passage above-mentioned,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 624 pages
...a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a bear-garden ; yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their...readers improve their stock of sense (as they may \iy reading better books, and by conversation with men of judgment), they soon forsake them. I must... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...on a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a bear-garden; yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their...conversation with men of judgment) they soon forsake them." — Dryden. CXCVI. l^tf, Similes, drawn from odd circumstances and effects strangely accidental, bear... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 628 pages
...a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a bear-garden.; yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their...conversation with men of judgment), they soon forsake them. I must not dismiss this subject without observing, that as Mr. Locke, in the passage above-mentioned,... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 372 pages
...a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a bear-garden ; yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their...conversation with men of judgment) they soon forsake them." — Dryden. CXCVL Similes, drawn from odd circumstances and effects strangely accidental, bear a near... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 524 pages
...mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a bear-garden : yet these are they , who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their...conversation with men of judgment,) they soon forsake them. I must not dismiss this subject without observing, that as Mr. Locke, in the passage above-mentioned,... | |
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... of two pounds per annum in Parnassus, and therefore are not privileged to poll. Their authors are of the same level, fit to represent them on a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a beargarden : yet these are they who have the... 
