The British Essayists: The TatlerJ. Richardson, 1823 |
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Página xviii
... hope to rival ; but the freaks and vagaries of fashion , operating upon various tempers , and creating many varieties of character , and many modifications of ab- surdity , whatever influence they might have upon society , were excluded ...
... hope to rival ; but the freaks and vagaries of fashion , operating upon various tempers , and creating many varieties of character , and many modifications of ab- surdity , whatever influence they might have upon society , were excluded ...
Página xxx
... hope of other assist- ance than what might come spontaneously . His chief dependence was on his intelligence , which gave him a superiority over his con- temporaries , who were merely news - writers , and had never discovered that a ...
... hope of other assist- ance than what might come spontaneously . His chief dependence was on his intelligence , which gave him a superiority over his con- temporaries , who were merely news - writers , and had never discovered that a ...
Página 10
... hope I need say no more as to my impartiality . I really have acted in these cases with honesty , and am 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 ...
... hope I need say no more as to my impartiality . I really have acted in these cases with honesty , and am 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 ...
Página 13
... hope , make all persons willing to comply with my humble request ( when my gratis stock is exhausted ) of a penny a - piece ; especially since they are sure of some proper amusement , and that it is impossible for me to want means to ...
... hope , make all persons willing to comply with my humble request ( when my gratis stock is exhausted ) of a penny a - piece ; especially since they are sure of some proper amusement , and that it is impossible for me to want means to ...
Página 23
... hope for safety from other prospects . From my own Apartment , April 13 . I find it of very great use , now I am setting up for a writer of news , that I am an adept in astrolo- gical speculations : by which means I avoid speak- ing of ...
... hope for safety from other prospects . From my own Apartment , April 13 . I find it of very great use , now I am setting up for a writer of news , that I am an adept in astrolo- gical speculations : by which means I avoid speak- ing of ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
advice affairs agreeable appear April army beauty 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 happy honour hope humour instant ISAAC BICKERSTAFF James's Coffee-house July 18 June June 18 King King of Denmark lady late learned letters live 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 Prince Quicquid agunt homines received sense sent speak spirit TATLER theme things thought tion Torcy Tournay town treaty troops Whate'er wherein White's Chocolate-house whole Will's Coffee-house woman word writ write
Passagens conhecidas
Página 249 - O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the 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 249 - O reform it altogether, 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 villanous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Página 249 - ... 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 306 - 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...
Página 248 - 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 - ... 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 248 - 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 94 - Or winds begun through hazy skies to blow, At evening a keen eastern breeze arose, And the descending rain unsullied froze. Soon as the silent shades of night withdrew, The ruddy morn...
Página 249 - 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.