 Thus, as a certain insensibility in the countenance recommends a sentence of humour and jest, so it must be a very lively consciousness that gives grace to great sentiments. The jest is to be a thing unexpected ; therefore your...  The British Essayists;: Tatler - Page 200by Alexander Chalmers - 1808Full view - About this book
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...Thing unexpected $ therefore your undefignhig Manner is a Beauty in Expreflions of Mirth 5 but when you are to talk on a Set Subject, the more you are moved your felf, the more you will move others. There is, faid he, a remarkable Example of that Kind. JEjckhres,... | |
 | Tatler - 1754 - 338 pages
...more you will move others. „• , THERE is, faid he, a remarkable Example of that Kind. &/cbines, a famous Orator of Antiquity, had pleaded at Athens in a great Caufe againft Demoftkenesi but having loft it, retired to Rhodes; Eloquence waj then the Quality moft... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1784 - 514 pages
...yourfelf, the more you will others. There is, faid he, a remarkable example of that kind. JEfchines, a famous orator of antiquity, had pleaded at Athens in a great caufe againft Demofthenes ; but having loft it, retired to Rhodes : Eloquence was then the quality... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 486 pages
...thing unexpected ; therefore your undesigning manner is a beauty in expressions of mirth : but when you are to talk on a set subject, the more you are moved.../There is, said he, a remarkable example of that kind. ./Eschines, a famous orator of antiquity, had pleaded at Athens in a great cause against Demosthenes... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1801 - 364 pages
...yourfelf, the more^you will move others. There is, faid he, a remarkable example of that kind : jEJdsines, a famous orator, of antiquity, had pleaded at Athens in a great caufe againft Demefthents ; but having loft it, retired to Rludis. Eloquence then the quality moft... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 554 pages
...thing unexpected ; therefore your undesiguing manner is a beauty in expressions of mirth : but when you are to talk on a set subject, the more you are moved...is," said he, " a remarkable example of that kind. TEschines, a famous orator of antiquity, had pleaded at Athens in a great cause against Demosthenes... | |
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...thing unexpected; therefore your undesigning manner is a beauty in expressions of mirth : but when you are to talk on a set subject, the more you are moved...among men, and the magistrates of that place, having beard he had a copy of the speech of Demosthenes, desired him to repeat both their pleadings. After... | |
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...thing unexpected ; therefore your undesigning manner is a beauty in expressions of mirth; but when you are to talk on a set subject, the more you are moved...is," said he, " a remarkable example of that kind. .ZEschines, a famous orator of antiquity, had pleaded at Athens in a great cause against Demosthenes;... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 564 pages
...thing unexpected ; therefore your undesigning manner is a beauty in expressions of mirth; but when you are to talk on a set subject, the more you are moved...is," said he, " a remarkable example of that kind. ^Eschines, a famous orator of antiquity, had pleaded at Athens in a great cause against Demosthenes... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 342 pages
...thing unexpected : therefore your undesigning manner is a beauty in expressions of mirth ; but when you are to talk on a set subject, the more you are moved...is,' said he, ' a remarkable example of that kind. ^Eschines, a famous orator of antiquity, had pleaded at Athens in a great cause against Demosthenes... | |
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