The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The TatlerE. Sargeant, and M. & W. Ward; and Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston., 1809 |
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... mind . A Bully thinks honour consists wholly in being brave ; and therefore has regard to no one rule of life , if he preserves himself from the accusation of cowardice . tity to be the first merit in No. 217 . 41 TATLER .
... mind . A Bully thinks honour consists wholly in being brave ; and therefore has regard to no one rule of life , if he preserves himself from the accusation of cowardice . tity to be the first merit in No. 217 . 41 TATLER .
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... honour . I was very much pleased and astonished at the glorious show of these gay vegetables , that arose in great profusion on all the banks about us . Sometimes I considered them with the eye of an ordinary spectator , as so many ...
... honour . I was very much pleased and astonished at the glorious show of these gay vegetables , that arose in great profusion on all the banks about us . Sometimes I considered them with the eye of an ordinary spectator , as so many ...
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... honour your sis- ter Kirleus , as a pratitioner both in physic and as- trology : but in the common opinion of mankind , a she - quack is altogether as strange and astonish- ing a creature , as the Centaur that practised phy- sic in the ...
... honour your sis- ter Kirleus , as a pratitioner both in physic and as- trology : but in the common opinion of mankind , a she - quack is altogether as strange and astonish- ing a creature , as the Centaur that practised phy- sic in the ...
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... HONOURED SIR , " I have now finished my almanack for the next year , in all the parts of it , except that which con- cerns the weather ; and you having shewn your- self , by some of your late works , more 92 No. 228 . TATLER .
... HONOURED SIR , " I have now finished my almanack for the next year , in all the parts of it , except that which con- cerns the weather ; and you having shewn your- self , by some of your late works , more 92 No. 228 . TATLER .
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... honours justly thine . FRANCIS . From my own Apartment , September 25 . THE whole creation preys upon itself . Every living creature is inhabited . A flea has a thou- sand invisible insects that teaze him as he jumps from place to place ...
... honours justly thine . FRANCIS . From my own Apartment , September 25 . THE whole creation preys upon itself . Every living creature is inhabited . A flea has a thou- sand invisible insects that teaze him as he jumps from place to place ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
acquaintance advertisements agreeable Apartment appear August 15 beauty behaviour canonical hour Censor coffee-house common conversation Court of Honour DECEMBER 12 discourse distemper Doctor dress entertainment Esquire favour fortune frequently gentleman give Great-Britain hand hassock heard heart Hudibras humble servant humour Hungary water impertinent indicted insomuch ISAAC BICKERSTAFF Ithuriel jury lady late learned letter living look manner marriage matter means ment mind morning nature never night nose November obliged observed occasion offend ordinary OVID paper passions person pleasure Pre-Adamite present pretend prosecutor racter reader reason Richard Newman SATURDAY secutor shew speak talk Tatler tell temper ther thing thought THURSDAY tion told tongue town TUESDAY turn Vicar of Bray vice VIRG virtue whole woman words writings WYNNE young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 130 - Assaying by his devilish art to reach The organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions, as he list, phantasms and dreams ; Or if, inspiring venom, he might taint...
Página 136 - Street they sail'd from, by their Sight and Smell. ' They, as each Torrent drives, with rapid Force From Smithfield, or St. Pulchre's shape their Course, And in huge Confluent join at Snow-Hill Ridge, Fall from the Conduit prone to Holborn- Bridge. Sweepings from Butchers...
Página 207 - I found that our words froze in the air before they could reach the ears of the person to whom they were spoken. I was soon confirmed in this conjecture, when, upon the increase of the cold, the whole company grew dumb, or rather deaf; for every man was sensible, as we afterwards found, that he spoke as well as ever ; but the sounds no sooner took air, than they were condensed and lost. It was now a miserable spectacle to see us nodding and gaping at one another, every man talking, and no man heard....
Página 135 - Boxed in a chair the beau impatient sits, While spouts run clattering o'er the roof by fits; And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds; he trembles from within. So when Troy chairmen bore the wooden steed, Pregnant with Greeks, impatient to be freed, (Those bully Greeks, who, as the moderns do, Instead of paying chairmen, run them through), Laocoon struck the outside with his spear, And each imprisoned hero quaked for fear...
Página 46 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Página 97 - 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 215 - Diet, an horse, and thirty pounds a year, Besides th' advantage of his lordship's ear, The credit of the business, and the state, Are things that in a youngster's sense sound great. Little the unexperienc'd wretch does know What slavery he oft must undergo.
Página 37 - THE WILL OF A VIRTUOSO. I NICHOLAS G-IMCRACK, being in sound health of mind, but in great weakness of body, do by this my last will and testament, bestow my worldly goods and chattels in manner following : Imprimis, To my dear wife, One box of butterflies, One drawer of shells, A female skeleton, A dried cockatrice. Item, To my daughter Elizabeth, My receipt for preserving dead caterpillars.
Página 102 - ... peace, which I believe would save the lives of many brave words as well as men. The war has introduce•d abundance of polysyllables, which will never be able to live many more campaigns, Speculations...
Página 188 - I shall only repeat two adventures, as being very extraordinary, and neither of them having ever happened to me above once in my life. The first was, my being in a poet's pocket, who was so taken with the brightness and novelty of my appearance, that it gave occasion to the finest burlesque poem in the British language, entitled from me,