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... taken of the Prefaces in the literary Jour- nals . These he has now endeavoured to enlarge and improve by information recent- ly collected from various sources . Although the number of volumes re- mains the same as in the last edition ...
... taken of the Prefaces in the literary Jour- nals . These he has now endeavoured to enlarge and improve by information recent- ly collected from various sources . Although the number of volumes re- mains the same as in the last edition ...
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... taken from him by the verdict of religion , law , and integrity . Many of the TATLERS were very laudably employed in detecting the arts of gamblers and sharpers ; some at least of whom were * When Plato reproved a young man for playing ...
... taken from him by the verdict of religion , law , and integrity . Many of the TATLERS were very laudably employed in detecting the arts of gamblers and sharpers ; some at least of whom were * When Plato reproved a young man for playing ...
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... gentleman in the horse- guards . This step was taken against the opinion of his friends , and is said to have deprived him of the succession to his Irish estate whether this was occasioned by the terms of his BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . xxxix.
... gentleman in the horse- guards . This step was taken against the opinion of his friends , and is said to have deprived him of the succession to his Irish estate whether this was occasioned by the terms of his BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . xxxix.
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... taken of Mr. HUGHES among the authors of the SPECTATOR . The Medicine , a Tale , ' in No. 2 , was written by Mr. WILLIAM HARRISON , a young gentleman high in esteem , and ( as SWIFT characterises him ) a little pretty fellow , with a ...
... taken of Mr. HUGHES among the authors of the SPECTATOR . The Medicine , a Tale , ' in No. 2 , was written by Mr. WILLIAM HARRISON , a young gentleman high in esteem , and ( as SWIFT characterises him ) a little pretty fellow , with a ...
Página lxxxii
... taken in No. 26. It imposed on the world so far as to be printed at least three times , as the fifth volume of the TAT- LER . 1 have not , however , seen any edi- tion of later date than 1727 , and I believe it never was printed by the ...
... taken in No. 26. It imposed on the world so far as to be printed at least three times , as the fifth volume of the TAT- LER . 1 have not , however , seen any edi- tion of later date than 1727 , and I believe it never was printed by the ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
ADDISON advices affairs appear April April 22 army arrived Brussels called character Court desire discourse dream dress Duke of Anjou Duke of Marlborough enemy entertainment Esquire ESSAYISTS excellent eyes farrago libelli favour France French gentleman give Hague happy hero honour hope humour instant ISAAC BICKERSTAFF James's Coffee-house June June 18 King King of Denmark lady late letter live Lord Madam Majesty manner Marquis de Bay Marshal Villars ment mind Minister morning motley paper seizes N. S. say nature never obliged observed occasion Olivenza passion peace persons play present pretend Pretty Fellow Prince Eugene Quarterstaff Quicquid agunt homines racter received sense sent spirit STEELE STEELE'S TATLER theme things thought tion town treaty troops Whate'er White's Chocolate-house whole Will's Coffee-house woman write young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 270 - ... 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 270 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. 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.
Página xx - Congreve was not tenable : whatever glosses he might use for the defence or palliation of single passages, the general tenour and tendency of his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be regulated.
Página xv - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven to inhabit among Men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses.
Página 270 - 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'er step not the modesty of nature...
Página 102 - That wave and glitter in the distant sun. When, if a sudden gust of wind arise, The brittle forest into atoms flies: The crackling wood beneath the tempest bends, And in a spangled shower the prospect ends...
Página 270 - 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 270 - ... accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Página lxxxii - I shall not carry my humility so far as to call myself a vicious man, but at the same time must confess my life is at best but pardonable. And, with no greater character than this, a man would make but an indifferent progress in attacking prevailing and fashionable vices, which Mr. Bickerstaff has done with a freedom of spirit, that would have lost both its beauty and efficacy, had it been pretended to by Mr. Steele.
Página 38 - Only tell her that I love, Leave the rest to her and fate; Some kind planet from above May, perhaps, her passion move; Lovers on their stars must wait 3.