 | 1843 - 586 pages
...essay in the series may be read with pleasure separately ; yet the five or six hundred essays form a whole, and a whole which has the interest of a novel....therefore, which connects together the Spectator's Essays, gave to our ancestors their first taste of an exquisite and untried pleasure. That narrative... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1843 - 614 pages
...essay in ihe series may be read with pleasure separately ; yet the five or six hundred essays form a whole, and a whole which has the interest of a novel....as a compositor. Fielding was robbing birds' nests. Smollet was not yet born. The narrative, therefore, which connects together the Spectator's Essays,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - American periodicals - 1843 - 614 pages
...England, had appeared. Richardson was working as a compositor. Fielding was robbing birds' nests. Smollet was not yet born. The narrative, therefore, which connects together the Spectator's Essays, gave to our ancestors their first taste of an exquisite and untried pleasure. That narrative... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1844 - 446 pages
...essay in the series may be read with pleasure separately; yet the five or six hundred essays form a whole, and a whole which has the interest of a novel....therefore, which connects together the Spectator's essays, gave to our ancestors their first taste of an exquisite and untried pleasure. That narrative... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...essay in the series may be read with pleasure separately ; yet the five or six hundred essays form a whole, and a whole which has the interest of a novel....therefore, which connects together the Spectator's essays, gave to our ancestors their first taste of an exquisite and untried pleasure. That narrative... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1850 - 332 pages
...essay in the series may be read with pleasure separately; yet the five or six hundred essays form a whole, and a whole which has the interest of a novel....was working as a compositor. Fielding was robbing birds'nests. Smollett was not yet born. The narrative, therefore, which connects together the Spectator's... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1853 - 600 pages
...essay in the series may be read with pleasure separately ; yet the five or six hundred essays form a whole, and a whole which has the interest of a novel....was working as a compositor. Fielding was robbing bird's nests. Smollett was not yet born. The narrative, therefore, which connects together the Spectator's... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1853 - 600 pages
...essay in the series may be read with pleasure separately ; yet the five or six hundred essays form a whole, and a whole which has the interest of a novel....was working as a compositor. Fielding was robbing bird's nests. Smollett was not yet born. The narrative, therefore, which connects together the Spectator's... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 584 pages
...essay in the series may be read with pleasure separately ; yet the five or six hundred essays form a whole, and a whole which has the interest of a novel....the common life and manners of England had appeared. Eichardson was working as a compositor. Fielding was robbing bird's nests. Smollett was not yet born.... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1859 - 536 pages
...amongst the imperfectly educated than amongst those of higher refinement. It has been said, that " no novel, giving a lively and powerful picture of...the common life and manners of England, had appeared " before the time of the " Spectator ; " that the narrative which connects together these essays, "... | |
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Spectator must be allowed to be both original and eminently happy. Every valuable essay in the series may be read with pleasure separately; yet the five or six hundred essays form a whole, and a whole which has the interest of a novel. It must be remembered,... 
