The British Essayists: The TatlerJ. Richardson, 1823 |
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Página xvi
... received him , had he not worn the appearance of a friend . The tumult of those unhappy days left scarcely any man leisure to treasure up occasional compositions ; and so much were they neglected , that a complete col- lection is no ...
... received him , had he not worn the appearance of a friend . The tumult of those unhappy days left scarcely any man leisure to treasure up occasional compositions ; and so much were they neglected , that a complete col- lection is no ...
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... pension which he had hitherto received as having belonged to the household of the late Prince George of Den- mark . His object was now to obtain a seat in parliament ; and when it met after the disso- lution xxiv HISTORICAL AND.
... pension which he had hitherto received as having belonged to the household of the late Prince George of Den- mark . His object was now to obtain a seat in parliament ; and when it met after the disso- lution xxiv HISTORICAL AND.
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... received the honour of knighthood on present- ing an address . The more substantial reward of 5001. was also given him by Sir Robert Walpole for special services . Thus encou- raged , his fertile pen produced a variety of political ...
... received the honour of knighthood on present- ing an address . The more substantial reward of 5001. was also given him by Sir Robert Walpole for special services . Thus encou- raged , his fertile pen produced a variety of political ...
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... received with extraordinary applause , and long stood at the head of comedies of the moral and sentimental class . The King munificently presented him with 500l . for the dedication ; but his habitual pecuniary embarrassments still ...
... received with extraordinary applause , and long stood at the head of comedies of the moral and sentimental class . The King munificently presented him with 500l . for the dedication ; but his habitual pecuniary embarrassments still ...
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... received from you very many obligations . The elegant solitude of this place , and the greatest plea- sures of it , I owe to its being so near those beau- tiful manors wherein you sometimes reside . It is not retiring from the world ...
... received from you very many obligations . The elegant solitude of this place , and the greatest plea- sures of it , I owe to its being so near those beau- tiful manors wherein you sometimes reside . It is not retiring from the world ...
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.