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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... Play - house , a Poem by Blackmore - Tapestry -Continental Intelligence - Benefit of Bickerstaff 4. Plan of the work - Characters of Cloe and Clarissa - Dramatic news - Strolling com- pany - Continental Intelligence - Island of Felicia ...
... Play - house , a Poem by Blackmore - Tapestry -Continental Intelligence - Benefit of Bickerstaff 4. Plan of the work - Characters of Cloe and Clarissa - Dramatic news - Strolling com- pany - Continental Intelligence - Island of Felicia ...
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... been well observed , that the misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of over- whelming evil , but from small vexations continually re- peated . " * When Plato reproved a young man for playing at BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . XXV.
... been well observed , that the misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of over- whelming evil , but from small vexations continually re- peated . " * When Plato reproved a young man for playing at BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . XXV.
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... play , and with no other check than a hope , sometimes casually ex- pressed , that what is intended for amusement ... playing at dice . " What ! for such a trifle of money ? " " CUSTOM , " answered Plato , " is no triffe ...
... play , and with no other check than a hope , sometimes casually ex- pressed , that what is intended for amusement ... playing at dice . " What ! for such a trifle of money ? " " CUSTOM , " answered Plato , " is no triffe ...
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... play are almost too shocking for contemplation : here , indeed , ridicule seems frequently out of place ; for who can survey with gaiety of humour , the ruins of beauty and innocence ? the charms of 1 feature lost in the fiend - like ...
... play are almost too shocking for contemplation : here , indeed , ridicule seems frequently out of place ; for who can survey with gaiety of humour , the ruins of beauty and innocence ? the charms of 1 feature lost in the fiend - like ...
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... play , called " The Funeral , or Grief Alamode , " which was very successfully performed the same year , and is yet a favourite with the public . This play is said to have procured him the regard of KING WILLIAM , who intended to have ...
... play , called " The Funeral , or Grief Alamode , " which was very successfully performed the same year , and is yet a favourite with the public . This play is said to have procured him the regard of KING WILLIAM , who intended to have ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
ADDISON advices affairs appear April April 18 army arrived called character 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 honour hope humour instant ISAAC BICKERSTAFF James's Coffee-house June King King of Denmark lady late letter live Lord Madam Majesty manner marshal Villars MARY ASTELL Minister Monsieur motley paper seizes N. S. say nature never obliged observed occasion Olivenza Pacolet passion peace persons play pleasure present pretend Pretty Fellow Prince Eugene Quicquid agunt bomines racter Rake received RICHARD STEELE Rouille ſeizes sense sent shew spirit STEELE taken TATLER theme things thought tion Torcy Tournay town treaty troops wherein White's Chocolate-house whole Will's Coffee-house writ write
Passagens conhecidas
Página 210 - ... 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 210 - 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 210 - 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 210 - 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 211 - 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 113 - 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 196 - 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 ?"