The British Essayists: TatlerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... Woman ! A little month ! or ere those shoes were old , With which she follow'd my poor father's body , Like Niobe , all tears ! -why she , even she , O Heaven ! a brute that wants discourse of reason , Would have mourn'd longer ...
... Woman ! A little month ! or ere those shoes were old , With which she follow'd my poor father's body , Like Niobe , all tears ! -why she , even she , O Heaven ! a brute that wants discourse of reason , Would have mourn'd longer ...
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... woman , having danced the Derbyshire Hornpipe in the presence of several friends on Saturday last . Granted ; provided she can bring proof , that she can make a pudding on the twenty - fourth instant . N ° 107. THURSDAY , DECEMBER 15 ...
... woman , having danced the Derbyshire Hornpipe in the presence of several friends on Saturday last . Granted ; provided she can bring proof , that she can make a pudding on the twenty - fourth instant . N ° 107. THURSDAY , DECEMBER 15 ...
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... woman my soul doats on . I could gaze at her to the end of my being : yet when I have done so , for some time past , I have found her eyes fixed on another . She is now two- and - twenty , in the full tyranny of her charms , which she ...
... woman my soul doats on . I could gaze at her to the end of my being : yet when I have done so , for some time past , I have found her eyes fixed on another . She is now two- and - twenty , in the full tyranny of her charms , which she ...
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... woman I loved , and the pleasure I saw her take in my sufferings . " I considered the distress she brought upon me the greatest that could befal an human creature . the same time that she did not inflict this un N ° 108. SATURDAY ...
... woman I loved , and the pleasure I saw her take in my sufferings . " I considered the distress she brought upon me the greatest that could befal an human creature . the same time that she did not inflict this un N ° 108. SATURDAY ...
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... woman of great economy , and was not afraid to go to the bottom of her affairs ; and , therefore , ordered her apprentice to give her credit for my lady Easy's impertinent visits upon wrong days , and deduct only twelve per cent . He ...
... woman of great economy , and was not afraid to go to the bottom of her affairs ; and , therefore , ordered her apprentice to give her credit for my lady Easy's impertinent visits upon wrong days , and deduct only twelve per cent . He ...
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acquaintance admired agreeable Anticyra appear Bag-pipe Bass-viol beautiful Bickerstaff called Censor character charms Chimæra Cicero confess Coquette creatures dead death delight desire discourse dress endeavour entertain Esquire eyes favour figure fortune Gascon gentleman give greatest hand happy Harpsichord hath heard heart honour human humble humour Hungary water husband imagination impertinent ISAAC BICKERSTAFF Jupiter kind lady learned letter likewise live look lover mankind manner marriage mind Muscovy nation nature never night observe occasion OVID particular passed passion persons petitioner petticoat pleased pleasure poet present proper racter ragoûts reader reason received Roman Censors Rome says sense Sheer-lane soul spirit stood Styx Tatler tell Terentia thing thought tion told took town TUESDAY turn Ulysses upholsterer VIRG Virgil virtue walk whole wife woman words write young
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Página 41 - But neither breath of Morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds ; nor rising sun On this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew ; nor fragrance, after showers ; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent Night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet.
Página 41 - With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike : Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Página viii - Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she — O God ! a beast that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer — married with mine uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules...
Página viii - Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth ! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman! A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she follow'd my poor father's body...
Página 56 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Página vii - So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Página 42 - Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Página 24 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Página 192 - Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The source of evil one, and one of good ; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills; To most, he mingles both : the wretch decreed To taste the bad, unmix'd, is cursed indeed; Pursued by wrongs, by meagre famine driven, He wanders, outcast both of earth and heaven.
Página 360 - Papa could not hear me, and would play with me no more, for they were going to put him under ground, whence he could never come to us again.