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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... speaking agreeably to a fine woman , or from any degree of generosi- ty that way . You have among us citizens many well - wishers ; but it is for the justice of your representations , which we , perhaps , are better judges of than you ...
... speaking agreeably to a fine woman , or from any degree of generosi- ty that way . You have among us citizens many well - wishers ; but it is for the justice of your representations , which we , perhaps , are better judges of than you ...
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... sons , as are ready to do their country service upon all occasions , I have an engine in my study , which is a sort of a Political Barometer , or , to speak more intelligibly , a State Weather - glass , 13 No. 214 TATLER .
... sons , as are ready to do their country service upon all occasions , I have an engine in my study , which is a sort of a Political Barometer , or , to speak more intelligibly , a State Weather - glass , 13 No. 214 TATLER .
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Alexander Chalmers. speak more intelligibly , a State Weather - glass , that , by the rising and falling of a certain magical liquor , presages all changes and revolutions in government , as the common glass does of the weather . This ...
Alexander Chalmers. speak more intelligibly , a State Weather - glass , that , by the rising and falling of a certain magical liquor , presages all changes and revolutions in government , as the common glass does of the weather . This ...
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... speaking things to her husband which gave me much disturbance , and put me in mind of a char acter which I wonder I have so long omitted , and that is , an outrageous species of the fair sex , which is distinguished by the term Scolds ...
... speaking things to her husband which gave me much disturbance , and put me in mind of a char acter which I wonder I have so long omitted , and that is , an outrageous species of the fair sex , which is distinguished by the term Scolds ...
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... speak of you in your absence . These people are the more dreadful , the more they have of what is usually called wit ; for a live- ly imagination , when it is not governed by a good understanding , makes such miserable havock both in ...
... speak of you in your absence . These people are the more dreadful , the more they have of what is usually called wit ; for a live- ly imagination , when it is not governed by a good understanding , makes such miserable havock both in ...
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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,