“The” British Essayists: TatlerAlexander Chalmers Little, Brown, 1855 |
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acquaintance admired advertisements agreeable ambition Ann Oldfield APARTMENT appear AUGUST August 15 beauty behaviour Cælia Censor cerning character circumstances coffee-house consider conversation court creature desire discourse Doctor Duke of Anjou entertain ESQUIRE esteem father favour fortune gentleman give hand happiness honour hour humble servant humour imagination impertinent ISAAC BICKERSTAFF JULY 21 lady late learned Lerida letter live look lover Lysander mankind manner marriage matter means ment merit mind morning nature neral never observe occasion ordinary OVID Palamede paper passion person pleased pleasure pounds present pretend proper racter reason received sense September 16 soon speak spirit Stratonice talk Tatler tell temper thing thou thought THURSDAY tion told town TUESDAY turn Vicar of Bray VIRG virtue wherein whole woman words writings WYNNE young
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Page 159 - 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...
Page 250 - Now in contiguous drops the flood comes down, Threatening with deluge this devoted town. To shops in crowds the daggled females fly, Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy.
Page 250 - That swill'd more liquor than it could contain, And, like a drunkard, gives it up again. Brisk Susan whips her linen from the rope, While the first drizzling...
Page 407 - ... humility so far as to call myself a vicious man, but at the same time must confess my life is at best but pardonable. And, with no greater character than this, a man would make but an indifferent progress in attacking prevailing and fashionable vices, which Mr. Bickerstaff has done with a freedom of • spirit, that would have lost both its beauty and efficacy, had it been pretended to by Mr. Steele...
Page 156 - She first his weak indulgence will accuse. Thus they in mutual accusation spent The fruitless hours, but neither self-condemning, And of their vain contest appear'd no end.
Page 210 - 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.
Page 370 - ... nature, will not, I believe, think such a memorial forced and unnatural. If dinner has been thus postponed, or, if you please, kept back from time to time, you may be sure that it has been in compliance with the other business of the day, and that supper has still observed a proportionable distance. There is a venerable proverb which we have all of us heard in our infancy, of ' putting the children to bed, and laying the goose to the fire.
Page 298 - ... and hints that are altogether new and uncommon. Whether it were in complaisance to my way of living, or his real opinion, he advanced the following paradox, ' That it required much greater talents to fill up and become a retired life, than a life of business.' Upon this occasion he rallied very agreeably the busy men of the age, who only valued themselves for being in motion, and passing through a series of trifling and insignificant actions. In the heat of his discourse, seeing a piece of money...
Page 302 - In the midst of this general calamity, when everybody thought our misfortune irretrievable, and our case desperate, we were thrown into the furnace together, and (as it often happens with cities rising out of a fire) appeared with greater beauty and lustre than we could ever boast of before. What has happened to me since this change of sex which you now see, I shall take some other opportunity to relate. In the...
Page 189 - ... milk, or any thing else, either for his body or his mind, this is the place to look for them in. The great art in writing advertisements, is the finding out a proper method to catch the reader's eye ; without which a good thing may pass over unobserved, or be lost among commissions of bankrupt.