The Tatler: Selected EssaysF. Warne, 1888 - 478 páginas |
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... Steele always gallant and sympathetic when the welfare of the ladies was concerned- came prominently upon the scene . On Tuesday , April 12 , 1709 , there appeared , as the happy coinage of his brain , the first number of the Tatler ...
... Steele always gallant and sympathetic when the welfare of the ladies was concerned- came prominently upon the scene . On Tuesday , April 12 , 1709 , there appeared , as the happy coinage of his brain , the first number of the Tatler ...
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... Steele , of the fair sex ; " and the object it had in view was " to expose the false arts of life , to pull off the disguises of cunning , vanity , and affectation , and to recommend a general simplicity in our dress , our discourse and ...
... Steele , of the fair sex ; " and the object it had in view was " to expose the false arts of life , to pull off the disguises of cunning , vanity , and affectation , and to recommend a general simplicity in our dress , our discourse and ...
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... Steele possessed that know- ledge which is not to be derived from books . He was a man of the world , and his humour , combined with his keen powers of observation , had made him a deep and accurate student of human nature . He knew the ...
... Steele possessed that know- ledge which is not to be derived from books . He was a man of the world , and his humour , combined with his keen powers of observation , had made him a deep and accurate student of human nature . He knew the ...
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... Steele and all the rest of our polite and gallant authors . The latter have endeavoured to please the age by falling in with them , and encouraging them in their fashionable vices and false notions of things . It would have been a jest ...
... Steele and all the rest of our polite and gallant authors . The latter have endeavoured to please the age by falling in with them , and encouraging them in their fashionable vices and false notions of things . It would have been a jest ...
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... Steele who laid the foundation of this happy exchange . For the success of the Tatler no small share , as we have elsewhere admitted , * was due to the pen of Addison . Without disparaging the labours of Steele and the excellence of ...
... Steele who laid the foundation of this happy exchange . For the success of the Tatler no small share , as we have elsewhere admitted , * was due to the pen of Addison . Without disparaging the labours of Steele and the excellence of ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
acquaintance ADDISON admired Æneid agreeable Anne Oldfield appear Arthur Mainwaring beauty behaviour Bickerstaff body called character Cicero coffee-house Colley Cibber confess conversation countenance court creature Dæmon Daniel Burgess delight Demosthenes desire discourse dress endeavour entertainment Esquire eyes fair sex father favour figure fortune Gascon gave gentleman give goddess hand happy hassock head heard heart honour hour humour husband imagination ISAAC BICKERSTAFF Julius Cæsar kind lady learned letter living look lover madam mankind manner marriage mind morning nature never night observed occasion offended OVID Palamede paper particular passed passion persons petticoat pleased pleasure present proper reason shew speak STEELE talk Tatler tell temper thing thought THURSDAY tion Tipstaff told town TUESDAY turned Vicar of Bray VIRG virtue whole wife woman words young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 166 - O'er other creatures. Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded: wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanced, and like folly shows.
Página 149 - His mother between laughing and chiding would have put him out of the room ; but I would not part with him so. I found upon conversation with him, though he was a little noisy in his mirth, that the child had excellent parts, and was a great master of all the learning on the other side eight years old.
Página 391 - So saying, on he led his radiant files, Dazzling the moon; these to the bower direct In search of whom they sought : him there they found Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve, Assaying by his devilish art to reach The organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions as he list, phantasms and dreams...
Página 148 - My friend, who is always extremely delighted with her agreeable humour, made her sit down with us. She did it with that easiness which is peculiar to women of sense; and to keep up the good humour she had brought in with her, turned her raillery upon me.
Página 263 - Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The source of evil one, and one of good ; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills ; To most, he mingles both : the wretch decreed To taste the bad, unmix'd, is curst indeed ; Pursued by wrongs, by meagre famine driven, He wanders, outcast both of Earth and Heaven.
Página 148 - He would have gone on in this tender way, when the good lady entered, and, with an inexpressible sweetness in her countenance, told us she had been searching her closet for something very good, to treat such an old friend as I was.
Página 274 - Before the angel, and of him to ask Chose rather; he, she knew, would intermix Grateful digressions, and solve high dispute With conjugal caresses: from his lip Not words alone pleased her.
Página 112 - Hail wedded Love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother first were known.
Página 309 - ... meant, than possessed with a real understanding why nobody was willing to play with me. I remember I went into the room where his body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a-beating the coffin, and calling "Papa" ; for I know not how I had some slight idea that he was locked up there.
Página 468 - ... her branches to the seas and to the floods. The state and bread of the poor and oppressed have been precious in mine eyes ; I have hated all cruelty and hardness of heart; I have, though in a despised weed, procured the good of all men. If any have been my enemies, I thought not of them, neither hath the sun almost set upon my displeasure ; but I have been, as a dove, free from superfluity of maliciousness.