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... concern , are impotent helps to persuasion , in com- parison of the honest countenance of him who utters what he really means . From whence it is , that all the beauties which others attain with labour , are in your Lordship but the ...
... concern , are impotent helps to persuasion , in com- parison of the honest countenance of him who utters what he really means . From whence it is , that all the beauties which others attain with labour , are in your Lordship but the ...
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... concerned in these volumes , with relation to the spirit and genius of the work ; and am far from pretending to modesty in making this acknowledgment . What a man ob- tains from the good opinion and friendship of worthy men , is a much ...
... concerned in these volumes , with relation to the spirit and genius of the work ; and am far from pretending to modesty in making this acknowledgment . What a man ob- tains from the good opinion and friendship of worthy men , is a much ...
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... concerned it should be thought otherwise : For wit , if a man had it , unless it be directed to some useful end , is but a wanton frivolous quality ; all that one should value himself upon in this kind is , that he had some honourable ...
... concerned it should be thought otherwise : For wit , if a man had it , unless it be directed to some useful end , is but a wanton frivolous quality ; all that one should value himself upon in this kind is , that he had some honourable ...
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... concerned in the house , acted on that oc- casion . There has not been known so great a con- course of persons of distinction as at that time ; the Edward Lord Viscount Hinchinbroke , mentioned after- wards under the name of Cynthio ...
... concerned in the house , acted on that oc- casion . There has not been known so great a con- course of persons of distinction as at that time ; the Edward Lord Viscount Hinchinbroke , mentioned after- wards under the name of Cynthio ...
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... concerned , that this little matter should make so much noise ; but since I am en- gaged , I take myself obliged in honour to go on in my lucubrations , and by the help of these arts of which I am master , as well as my skill in astrolo ...
... concerned , that this little matter should make so much noise ; but since I am en- gaged , I take myself obliged in honour to go on in my lucubrations , and by the help of these arts of which I am master , as well as my skill in astrolo ...
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advices affairs agreeable appear April army arrived behaviour Brussels called character conversation Court desire discourse dream dress Duke of Anjou Duke of Marlborough enemy entertainment Esquire excellent eyes farrago libelli favour France French gentleman give Hague honour hope humour instant ISAAC BICKERSTAFF James's Coffee-house July 18 June June 18 King King of Denmark lady late learned letters live look Lord lover Madam Majesty manner Marquis de Bay Marshal Villars matter ment minister Monsieur motley paper seizes N. S. say nature never night obliged observed occasion Olivenza Pacolet passion peace persons play present pretend Pretty Fellow Quicquid agunt homines received sense sent Sir Mark speak spirit Tatler theme things thought tion Torcy Tournay town treaty troops wherein White's Chocolate-house whole Will's Coffee-house woman word writ write
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Página 255 - 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 255 - ... 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 the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Página 255 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently : for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say,- whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. 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...
Página 311 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Página 254 - 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 xiv - 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 xlvi - Lastly, his writings have set all our wits and men of- letters upon a new way of thinking, of which they had little or no notion before ; and though we cannot yet say that any of them have come up to the beauties of the original, I think we may venture to affirm, that every one of them writes and thinks much more justly than they did some time since.
Página 12 - All accounts of gallantry, pleasure, and entertainment, shall be under the article of White's Chocolatehouse; poetry, under that of Will's Coffee-house; learning, under the title of Grecian; foreign and domestic news you will have from Saint James's Coffee-house ; and what else I have to offer on any other subject shall be dated from my own Apartment.
Página xlv - It would have been a jest, some time since, for a man to have asserted that any thing witty could be said in praise of a married state.; or that devotion and virtue were any way necessary to the character of a fine gentleman.
Página 255 - 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.