 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 622 pages
...signifying to vote ; but, in propriety of speech, the poll only ascertains the majority of rotes. — C. 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,... | |
 | Spectator The - 1857 - 780 pages
...masters of the ceremonies in a bear garden ; ret these are they who have the most admirer«. But t often happens, to their mortification, that as their...may | by reading better books, and by conversation will meu of judgment), they soon forsake them.'* I must not dismiss this subject without observing,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 482 pages
...on a mountehank's stage, or to he masters of the ceremonies in a heargarden. Yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their...readers improve their stock of sense, (as they may hy reading hetter hooks, and hy conversation with men of judgment,) they soon forsake them : and when... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1867 - 724 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...reading better books, and by conversation with men of j udgment,) they soon forsake them ; and when the torrent from the mountain falls no more, the swelling... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 610 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,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 576 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.' I must not dismiss this subject without observing, that as Mr. Locke, in the passage above mentioned,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 584 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...their stock of sense (as they may by reading better :o books, and by conversation with men of judgment) they soon forsake them.' I must not dismiss this... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 566 pages
...most admire ^ T>,.(- it- riffon liannf»nc tn tlmi.- »n«-n^-ifir>atir»ti tjiof- nt? tJ,~: , _ • But it often happens, to their mortification, that...improve their stock of sense (as they may by reading bett S 20 books, and by conversation with men of judgment) they So G forsake them.' I must not dismiss... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 648 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. Lock in the passage above mentioned has... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 648 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. Lock in the passage above mentioned has... | |
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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... 
