The British Essayists: The TatlerJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son, W. J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, J. Sewell, R. Faulder, G. and W. Nicol, T. Payne, G. and J. Robinson, W. Lowndes, G. Wilkie, J. Mathews, P. McQueen, Ogilvy and Son, J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, Darton and Harvey, J. Nunn, Lackington and Company, D. Walker, Clarke and Son, G. Kearsley, C. Law, J. White, Longman and Rees, Cadell, Jun. and Davies, J. Barker, T. Kay, Wynne and Company, Pote and Company, Carpenter and Company, W. Miller, Murray and Highley, S. Bagster, T. Hurst, T. Boosey, R. Pheney, W. Baynes, J. Harding, R. H. Evans, J. Mawman; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1803 |
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Página xi
... hope of future improvement : yet if we fairly estimate the writings of the principal ornaments of that time , we must at least allow that they formed a combination which has not often graced the annals of literature , and that they have ...
... hope of future improvement : yet if we fairly estimate the writings of the principal ornaments of that time , we must at least allow that they formed a combination which has not often graced the annals of literature , and that they have ...
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... hope to rival ; but the freaks and vagaries of fashion * operating upon various tempers , and creating many varieties of character , and many modifi- cations of absurdity , whatever influence they might have upon society , were excluded ...
... hope to rival ; but the freaks and vagaries of fashion * operating upon various tempers , and creating many varieties of character , and many modifi- cations of absurdity , whatever influence they might have upon society , were excluded ...
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... hope to exhaust , as they shift their forms and appearances with the revolu- tions of public manners , and habits of think- ing , or rather habits of acting without thought . ANGER alone may be sub - divided so as to af- ford an ...
... hope to exhaust , as they shift their forms and appearances with the revolu- tions of public manners , and habits of think- ing , or rather habits of acting without thought . ANGER alone may be sub - divided so as to af- ford an ...
Página xxv
... hope I shall be excused for transcribing . " The freaks , and humours , and spleen , and vanity of women , as they embroil families in discord , and fill houses with disquiet , do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year than ...
... hope I shall be excused for transcribing . " The freaks , and humours , and spleen , and vanity of women , as they embroil families in discord , and fill houses with disquiet , do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year than ...
Página xxxi
... hope , sometimes casually ex- pressed , that what is intended for amuseinent may not become their more serious study * . Perhaps one of the most fatal effects which gaming , even in its least degrees , has pro- duced on the public mind ...
... hope , sometimes casually ex- pressed , that what is intended for amuseinent may not become their more serious study * . Perhaps one of the most fatal effects which gaming , even in its least degrees , has pro- duced on the public mind ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
acted affairs appear April April 18 army arrived behaviour called character Chloe Court desire discourse dream dress Duke of Anjou Duke of Marlborough enemy entertainment Esquire excellent eyes farrago libelli favour France French gentleman Ghent give Hague hear honour hope humour instant ISAAC BICKERSTAFF James's Coffee-house John Vanbrugh June King King of Denmark lady late letters live Lord Madam Majesty manner marshal Villars matter Minister Monsieur morning motley paper seizes nature never obliged observed occasion Olivenza passion peace persons play pleasure poet present pretend Pretty Fellow Prince Eugene Quicquid agunt bomines racter Rake received RICHARD STEELE Rouille sense sent shew spirit STEELE taken TATLER theme thing thought tion Tom D'Urfey Torcy Tournay town treaty troops wherein White's Chocolate-house whole Will's Coffee-house writ write young
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Página 208 - ... 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.
Página 208 - 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.
Página 6 - All accounts of gallantry, pleasure, and entertainment, shall be under the article of White's Chocolate-house ; poetry, under that of Will's Coffee-house ; learning, under the title of Grecian ; foreign and domestic news, you will have from St. James's Coffee-house ; and what else I shall on any other subject offer, shall be dated from my own apartment.
Página 208 - 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.
Página xi - To teach the minuter decencies and inferior duties, to regulate the practice of daily conversation, to correct those depravities which are rather ridiculous than criminal, and remove those grievances which, if they produce no lasting calamities, impress hourly vexation...
Página 7 - Dryden frequented it ; where you used to see songs, epigrams, and satires, in the hands of every man you met, you have now only a pack of cards ; and instead of the cavils about the turn of the expression, the elegance of the style, and the like, the learned now dispute only about the truth of the game.
Página 208 - O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: Pray you, avoid it.
Página 209 - 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.
Página 117 - Buckley * has shed as much blood as the former ; but I cannot forbear saying (and I hope it will not look like envy) that we regard our brother Buckley as a kind of Drawcansir, who spares neither friend nor foe ; but generally kills as many of his own side as the enemy's.
Página 194 - Madonella, a lady who had writ a fine book concerning the recluse life, and was the projectrix of the foundation She approaches into the hall ; and Rake, knowing the dignity of his own mien and aspect, goes deputy from his company. She begins, "Sir, I am obliged to follow the servant, who was sent out to know what affair could make strangers press upon a solitude which we, who are to inhabit this place, have devoted to heaven and our own thoughts ?"