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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... acquaintance has been lost from a general pre- possession in his disfavour , and a severe aspect has often hid under it a very agreeable com- panion . There are no distinguishing qualities among men to which they are not false ...
... acquaintance has been lost from a general pre- possession in his disfavour , and a severe aspect has often hid under it a very agreeable com- panion . There are no distinguishing qualities among men to which they are not false ...
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... of eigh teen years of age , fell passionately in love with the beauteous Almira , daughter to his master . Her regard for him was no less tender . True man was better acquainted with his master's af- fairs than € 2 No. 213 . 26 TATLER .
... of eigh teen years of age , fell passionately in love with the beauteous Almira , daughter to his master . Her regard for him was no less tender . True man was better acquainted with his master's af- fairs than € 2 No. 213 . 26 TATLER .
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... acquainted with all that concerned his master , and by his great address in the management of that knowledge saved him ten thousand pounds . Soon after this accident , Trueman's uncle left him a considerable estate . Upon receiving that ...
... acquainted with all that concerned his master , and by his great address in the management of that knowledge saved him ten thousand pounds . Soon after this accident , Trueman's uncle left him a considerable estate . Upon receiving that ...
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... acquainted with , nor scarce a daffodil or cowslip that withers away in my neighbourhood without my missing it . I walked home in this temper of mind through several fields and meadows with an unspeakable pleasure , not without ...
... acquainted with , nor scarce a daffodil or cowslip that withers away in my neighbourhood without my missing it . I walked home in this temper of mind through several fields and meadows with an unspeakable pleasure , not without ...
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... acquaintance , who under- takes to cure all the vices and defects of the mind by inward medicines or outward applications . I shall give the world an account of his patients and his cures in other Papers , when I shall be more at ...
... acquaintance , who under- takes to cure all the vices and defects of the mind by inward medicines or outward applications . I shall give the world an account of his patients and his cures in other Papers , when I shall be more at ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
acquaintance advertisements agreeable Apartment appear August 15 beauty behaviour canonical hour Censor coffee-house common conversation Court of Honour DECEMBER 12 discourse distemper Doctor dress entertainment Esquire favour fortune frequently gentleman give Great-Britain hand hassock heard heart Hudibras humble servant humour Hungary water impertinent indicted insomuch ISAAC BICKERSTAFF Ithuriel jury lady late learned letter living look manner marriage matter means ment mind morning nature never night nose November obliged observed occasion offend ordinary OVID paper passions person pleasure Pre-Adamite present pretend prosecutor racter reader reason Richard Newman SATURDAY secutor shew speak talk Tatler tell temper ther thing thought THURSDAY tion told tongue town TUESDAY turn Vicar of Bray vice VIRG virtue whole woman words writings WYNNE young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 130 - Assaying by his devilish art to reach The organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions, as he list, phantasms and dreams ; Or if, inspiring venom, he might taint...
Página 136 - Street they sail'd from, by their Sight and Smell. ' They, as each Torrent drives, with rapid Force From Smithfield, or St. Pulchre's shape their Course, And in huge Confluent join at Snow-Hill Ridge, Fall from the Conduit prone to Holborn- Bridge. Sweepings from Butchers...
Página 207 - I found that our words froze in the air before they could reach the ears of the person to whom they were spoken. I was soon confirmed in this conjecture, when, upon the increase of the cold, the whole company grew dumb, or rather deaf; for every man was sensible, as we afterwards found, that he spoke as well as ever ; but the sounds no sooner took air, than they were condensed and lost. It was now a miserable spectacle to see us nodding and gaping at one another, every man talking, and no man heard....
Página 135 - Boxed in a chair the beau impatient sits, While spouts run clattering o'er the roof by fits; And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds; he trembles from within. So when Troy chairmen bore the wooden steed, Pregnant with Greeks, impatient to be freed, (Those bully Greeks, who, as the moderns do, Instead of paying chairmen, run them through), Laocoon struck the outside with his spear, And each imprisoned hero quaked for fear...
Página 46 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Página 97 - That from their noyance he no where can rest, But with his clownish hands their tender wings He brusheth oft, and oft doth mar their murmurings.
Página 215 - Diet, an horse, and thirty pounds a year, Besides th' advantage of his lordship's ear, The credit of the business, and the state, Are things that in a youngster's sense sound great. Little the unexperienc'd wretch does know What slavery he oft must undergo.
Página 37 - THE WILL OF A VIRTUOSO. I NICHOLAS G-IMCRACK, being in sound health of mind, but in great weakness of body, do by this my last will and testament, bestow my worldly goods and chattels in manner following : Imprimis, To my dear wife, One box of butterflies, One drawer of shells, A female skeleton, A dried cockatrice. Item, To my daughter Elizabeth, My receipt for preserving dead caterpillars.
Página 102 - ... peace, which I believe would save the lives of many brave words as well as men. The war has introduce•d abundance of polysyllables, which will never be able to live many more campaigns, Speculations...
Página 188 - I shall only repeat two adventures, as being very extraordinary, and neither of them having ever happened to me above once in my life. The first was, my being in a poet's pocket, who was so taken with the brightness and novelty of my appearance, that it gave occasion to the finest burlesque poem in the British language, entitled from me,