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... conversation always savours strongly of the low- ness of his education and company : it turns chiefly upon his domestic affairs , his servants , the excellent order he keeps in his own family , and the little anecdotes of the ...
... conversation always savours strongly of the low- ness of his education and company : it turns chiefly upon his domestic affairs , his servants , the excellent order he keeps in his own family , and the little anecdotes of the ...
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Elegant extracts. tinue in the world , and would have the advantage of conversation whilst he is in it , let him make use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions ; for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end all ...
Elegant extracts. tinue in the world , and would have the advantage of conversation whilst he is in it , let him make use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions ; for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end all ...
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... conversation defeats its own end . Much of the pleasure and all the benefit of conversation depends upon our own opinion of the speaker's veracity , for which this rule leaves no foundation . The faith indeed of a hearer must BOOK III ...
... conversation defeats its own end . Much of the pleasure and all the benefit of conversation depends upon our own opinion of the speaker's veracity , for which this rule leaves no foundation . The faith indeed of a hearer must BOOK III ...
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... Conversation ; though , indeed , it would appear too shocking to be set down in print . But I cannot help wishing , that it were possible to draw out a cata- logue of the fashionable oaths and curses in present use at Arthur's , or at ...
... Conversation ; though , indeed , it would appear too shocking to be set down in print . But I cannot help wishing , that it were possible to draw out a cata- logue of the fashionable oaths and curses in present use at Arthur's , or at ...
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... conversation , and meditation ; the last of which is in a more peculiar manner called study . Observation is the notice that we take of all occurrences 92 ELEGANT EXTRACTS . BOOK III . Different methods of improving in knowledge Watts.
... conversation , and meditation ; the last of which is in a more peculiar manner called study . Observation is the notice that we take of all occurrences 92 ELEGANT EXTRACTS . BOOK III . Different methods of improving in knowledge Watts.
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Էջ 112 - ... 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 the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Էջ 245 - The business of a poet," said Imlac, "is to examine, not the individual, but the species ; to remark general properties and large appearances ; he does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest.
Էջ 245 - He must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations — as a being superior to time and place.
Էջ 243 - Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art ; that the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement.
Էջ 112 - 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 any thing 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 112 - 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 112 - Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of the which one, must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. Oh, there be players, that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men,...
Էջ 111 - I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. 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 252 - You seldom find him making Love in any of his Scenes, or endeavouring to move the Passions ; his genius was too sullen and saturnine to do it gracefully, especially when he knew he came after those who had performed both to such an height.
Էջ 111 - 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.