The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The TatlerE. Sargeant, and M. & W. Ward; and Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston., 1809 |
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... speak , or to be silent ; how to refuse , or how to comply . We had many books to teach us our more important duties , and to settle opinions in philosophy or politics : but an Arbiter eleganti- arum , a judge of propriety , was yet ...
... speak , or to be silent ; how to refuse , or how to comply . We had many books to teach us our more important duties , and to settle opinions in philosophy or politics : but an Arbiter eleganti- arum , a judge of propriety , was yet ...
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... speak- ing of certainly not the worst dramatic writer of his age , ' that the perusal of his works will make no man better ; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice ; and Beattie , to relax those ...
... speak- ing of certainly not the worst dramatic writer of his age , ' that the perusal of his works will make no man better ; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice ; and Beattie , to relax those ...
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... speaking of the objects of Pope's " Rape of the Lock , " and Boileau's " Lutrin , " has a sentiment which I hope I shall be excused for transcribing . " The freaks , and humours , and spleen , and vanity of women , as they embroil ...
... speaking of the objects of Pope's " Rape of the Lock , " and Boileau's " Lutrin , " has a sentiment which I hope I shall be excused for transcribing . " The freaks , and humours , and spleen , and vanity of women , as they embroil ...
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... speaking , sincerity in the intention . The graceful manner , the apt ges- ture , and the assumed concern , are ... speak of you with the same force as you express yourself on any other subject . But I resist my present impulse as ...
... speaking , sincerity in the intention . The graceful manner , the apt ges- ture , and the assumed concern , are ... speak of you with the same force as you express yourself on any other subject . But I resist my present impulse as ...
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... speak plain truth , he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass . I have , in the dedication of the first volume , made my acknowledgments to Dr. Swift , whose pleasant writings , in the name of Bickerstaff , created an inclination ...
... speak plain truth , he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass . I have , in the dedication of the first volume , made my acknowledgments to Dr. Swift , whose pleasant writings , in the name of Bickerstaff , created an inclination ...
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ADDISON advices appear April April 22 army arrived behaviour called character court desire discourse dream dress Duke of Anjou Duke of Marlborough enemy entertainment Esquire ESSAYISTS excellent farrago libelli favour France French gentleman give Hague honour hope humour instant ISAAC BICKERSTAFF James's Coffee-house June June 18 King king of Denmark lady late letters live Lord lover Madam Majesty manner marshal Villars ment mind minister Monsieur morning motley paper seizes N. S. say nature neral never obliged observed occasion Olivenza passion peace persons play pleasure present pretend Pretty Fellow Prince Eugene Quicquid agunt homines racter received RICHARD STEELE sense sent shew spirit STEELE STEELE's TATLER theme thing thought tion Tipstaff Torcy Tournay town treaty troops Whate'er White's Chocolate-house whole Will's Coffee-house woman writ write
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Էջ 347 - ... twere the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now, this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Էջ 347 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Էջ 346 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Էջ 346 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end both at the first, and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Էջ 346 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Էջ 175 - And every pointed thorn seem'd wrought in glass ; In pearls and rubies rich the hawthorns show, While through the ice the crimson berries glow.
Էջ 325 - This was spoken with so easy and fixed an assurance, that Madonella answered, ' Sir, under the notion of a pious thought, you deceive yourself in wishing an institution foreign to that of Providence. These desires were implanted in us for reverend purposes, in preserving the race of men, and giving opportunities for making our chastity more heroic.' The conference was continued in this celestial strain, and carried on so well by the managers on, both sides, that it created a second, and a third interview...
Էջ 223 - The plot and incidents of the play are laid with that subtilty of spirit which is peculiar to females of wit, and is very seldom well performed by those of the other sex, in whom craft in love is an act of invention, and not, as with women, the effect of nature and instinct.
Էջ 68 - The general Purpose of the whole has been to recommend Truth, Innocence, Honour, and Virtue, as the chief Ornaments of Life; but I considered, that Severity of Manners was absolutely necessary to him who would censure others, and for that Reason, and that only, chose to talk in a Mask.
Էջ 13 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven to inhabit among Men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses.