The Tatler: Selected EssaysF. Warne, 1888 - 478 páginas |
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... human nature , are as deserving of study and perusal as any in the English language . Nor as contributions to the history of the period are they less worthy of attention . Politics , fashion , literature , the tastes and prejudices of ...
... human nature , are as deserving of study and perusal as any in the English language . Nor as contributions to the history of the period are they less worthy of attention . Politics , fashion , literature , the tastes and prejudices of ...
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... Human Life . 121 99 17 , 1709-10 Pets . • 123 29 21 , 1709-10 A Dream of Human Life - continued 124 99 24 , 1709-10 A Wheel of Chance 126 99 28 , 1709-10 127 " " 31 , 1709-10 Prude and Coquette . Pride . 129 Feb. 4 , 1709-10 Pasquin's ...
... Human Life . 121 99 17 , 1709-10 Pets . • 123 29 21 , 1709-10 A Dream of Human Life - continued 124 99 24 , 1709-10 A Wheel of Chance 126 99 28 , 1709-10 127 " " 31 , 1709-10 Prude and Coquette . Pride . 129 Feb. 4 , 1709-10 Pasquin's ...
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... human nature . He knew the London of his day - its haunts , its vices , its virtues , the pleasures of society , the woes of want , and , to the last trick in his secret programme , the designs and wiles of the impostor . Thanks to his ...
... human nature . He knew the London of his day - its haunts , its vices , its virtues , the pleasures of society , the woes of want , and , to the last trick in his secret programme , the designs and wiles of the impostor . Thanks to his ...
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... human life , through the different professions and characters in it , which obstruct anything that was truly good and great . " The two prominent contributors to the paper servedas ex- cellent foils to each other ; and what one lacked ...
... human life , through the different professions and characters in it , which obstruct anything that was truly good and great . " The two prominent contributors to the paper servedas ex- cellent foils to each other ; and what one lacked ...
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... human nature from the windows of the barrack yard ; the other from those of his library . In the criticisms of the former we see the man of action , in the criticisms of the latter the man of reflection . The combination of the two ...
... human nature from the windows of the barrack yard ; the other from those of his library . In the criticisms of the former we see the man of action , in the criticisms of the latter the man of reflection . The combination of the two ...
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acquaintance ADDISON admired 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 matter mind morning nature never night observed occasion offended OVID Palamede paper particular passed passion persons petticoat pleased pleasure present proper reason satisfaction shew speak STEELE talk Tatler tell temper thing thought THURSDAY tion Tipstaff told town TUESDAY turned Vicar of Bray VIRG virtue whole woman words young
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Página 149 - Fables: but he frankly declared to me his mind, that "he did not delight in that learning, because he did not believe they were true...
Página 114 - Here love his golden shafts employs, here lights His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels...
Página 419 - Being now of great credit and antiquity, I was rather looked upon as a medal than an ordinary coin : for which reason a gamester laid hold of me, and converted me to a counter, having got together some dozens of us for that use. We led a melancholy life in his possession, being busy at those hours wherein current coin, is at rest, and partaking the fate of our master; being in a few moments valued at a crown, a pound, or a sixpence, according to the situation in which the fortune of the cards placed...
Página 148 - This put us into a long field of discourse about the beauties, who were mothers to the present, and shined in the boxes twenty years ago. I told her, " I was glad she had transferred so many of her charms, and I did not question but her eldest daughter was within half a year of being a toast...
Página 382 - That from their noyance he no where can rest, But with his clownish hands their tender wings He brusheth oft, and oft doth mar their murmurings.
Página 397 - Flavia the least and slightest toy, Can with resistless art employ. This fan in meaner hands would prove An engine of small force in love ; But she with such an air and mien, Not to be told, or safely seen, Directs its wanton motions so, That it wounds more than Cupid's bow : Gives coolness to the matchless dame, To every other breast a flame.
Página 468 - Besides my innumerable sins, I confess before thee, that I am debtor to thee for the gracious talent of thy gifts and graces, which I have neither put into a napkin, nor put it, as I ought, to exchangers, where it might have made best profit, but mispent it in things for which I was least fit : so I may truly say, my soul hath been a stranger in the course of my pilgrimage. Be merciful unto me, O Lord, for my Saviour's sake, and receive me into thy bosom, or guide me in thy ways.
Página 118 - Homer, stood up at his entrance, and placed him on his right hand. The virgin, who it seems was one of the nine sisters that attended on the Goddess of Fame, smiled with an ineffable grace at their meeting and retired.
Página 226 - ... passed almost a sixth part of my time for these last forty years. Our club consisted originally of fifteen; but, partly by the severity of the law in arbitrary times, and partly by the natural effects of old age, we are at present reduced to a third part of that number; in which, however, we have this consolation, that the best company is said to consist of five persons.
Página 90 - His person, it is to be confessed, is no small recommendation ; but he is to be highly commended for not losing that advantage, and adding to the propriety of speech, which might pass the criticism of Longinus, an action which would have been approved by Demosthenes. He has a peculiar force in his way, and has many of his audience...