The Tatler: Selected EssaysF. Warne, 1888 - 478 páginas |
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... heard and saw you preach last Sunday . I am an ignorant young woman and understood not half you said : but ah ! your manner when you held up both your hands towards our pew ! Did you design to win me to Heaven or yourself ? " Can the ...
... heard and saw you preach last Sunday . I am an ignorant young woman and understood not half you said : but ah ! your manner when you held up both your hands towards our pew ! Did you design to win me to Heaven or yourself ? " Can the ...
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... heard of it ? I protest , I , who make it my business to enquire after adventures , should never have known this , had not the following account been sent me inclosed in a letter . This , it seems , is the way of giving out orders in.
... heard of it ? I protest , I , who make it my business to enquire after adventures , should never have known this , had not the following account been sent me inclosed in a letter . This , it seems , is the way of giving out orders in.
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... heard her with great attention , and , with that dexterity which is natural to her , told her , that " all she had above the rest of her sex and contemporary beauties was wholly owing to a Fan , ( that was left her by her mother , and ...
... heard her with great attention , and , with that dexterity which is natural to her , told her , that " all she had above the rest of her sex and contemporary beauties was wholly owing to a Fan , ( that was left her by her mother , and ...
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... heard a sage man make ; which was , " That he had observed , that in some professions , the lower the understand- ing , the greater the capacity . " * I remember , he instanced that of a banker , and said , that " the fewer appetites ...
... heard a sage man make ; which was , " That he had observed , that in some professions , the lower the understand- ing , the greater the capacity . " * I remember , he instanced that of a banker , and said , that " the fewer appetites ...
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... heard the story of the Irishman , who reading , " Money for live hair , " took a lodging , and expected to be paid for living at that house . If this man had known , For was in that place of a quite different signification from the ...
... heard the story of the Irishman , who reading , " Money for live hair , " took a lodging , and expected to be paid for living at that house . If this man had known , For was in that place of a quite different signification from the ...
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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.