The Tatler: Selected EssaysF. Warne, 1888 - 478 páginas |
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... tion to woman , nothing tenderer and yet more penetrating than his humour , never does he gloat over the criticism of unsavoury subjects , never does he raise a laugh or inflict one of his little stabs which strike so gently and yet go ...
... tion to woman , nothing tenderer and yet more penetrating than his humour , never does he gloat over the criticism of unsavoury subjects , never does he raise a laugh or inflict one of his little stabs which strike so gently and yet go ...
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... tion upon some subject of which he was supposed to possess especial knowledge . Between him and his scanty congregation there was little love or regard ; the one looked upon his duties as weary and monotonous , whilst the poor knew from ...
... tion upon some subject of which he was supposed to possess especial knowledge . Between him and his scanty congregation there was little love or regard ; the one looked upon his duties as weary and monotonous , whilst the poor knew from ...
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... tion , and that I can , by casting a figure , tell you all that will happen before it comes to pass . But this last faculty I shall use very sparingly , and speak but of few things until they are passed , for fear of divulging matters ...
... tion , and that I can , by casting a figure , tell you all that will happen before it comes to pass . But this last faculty I shall use very sparingly , and speak but of few things until they are passed , for fear of divulging matters ...
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... tion , and the grievance so frequent , and yet the offender never know anything of it . I have received the following letter from my kinsman at the Heralds - office , near the same place . " DEAR COUSIN , " This office , which has had ...
... tion , and the grievance so frequent , and yet the offender never know anything of it . I have received the following letter from my kinsman at the Heralds - office , near the same place . " DEAR COUSIN , " This office , which has had ...
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... tion at least to fools and some silly women ; but it was still blasted by the esquire's story with thinking men : however , he gained a great point by it ; for the next day he got the com- pany shut up with himself and fellow - members ...
... tion at least to fools and some silly women ; but it was still blasted by the esquire's story with thinking men : however , he gained a great point by it ; for the next day he got the com- pany shut up with himself and fellow - members ...
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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 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 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 دو
Passagens conhecidas
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...