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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... hope of future improvement : yet , if we fairly es- timate the writings of the principal ornaments of that time , we must at least allow that they formed a combination which has not often graced the an- nals of literature , and that ...
... hope of future improvement : yet , if we fairly es- timate the writings of the principal ornaments of that time , we must at least allow that they formed a combination which has not often graced the an- nals of literature , and that ...
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... hope to rival ; but the freaks and vagaries of fashion , t operating upon various tempers , and creating many varieties of charac- ter , and many modifications of absurdity , whatever influence they might have upon society , were ex ...
... hope to rival ; but the freaks and vagaries of fashion , t operating upon various tempers , and creating many varieties of charac- ter , and many modifications of absurdity , whatever influence they might have upon society , were ex ...
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... hope to exhaust , as they shift their forms and appearances with the révolutions of public manners , and habits of think ing 22 HISTORICAL AND Cynthia in Love-Lindamira's Lovers-Cave Underhill-Young Lady in Love with a Rake.
... hope to exhaust , as they shift their forms and appearances with the révolutions of public manners , and habits of think ing 22 HISTORICAL AND Cynthia in Love-Lindamira's Lovers-Cave Underhill-Young Lady in Love with a Rake.
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... hope I shall be excused for transcribing . " The freaks , and humours , and spleen , and vanity of women , as they embroil families in discord , and fill houses with disquiet , do more to obstruct the the happiness of life in a year ...
... hope I shall be excused for transcribing . " The freaks , and humours , and spleen , and vanity of women , as they embroil families in discord , and fill houses with disquiet , do more to obstruct the the happiness of life in a year ...
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... hope , sometimes casually expressed , that what is intended for amusement may not become their more serious study * . Perhaps one of the most fatal effects which gaming , even in its least degrees , has produced on the public mind , is ...
... hope , sometimes casually expressed , that what is intended for amusement may not become their more serious study * . Perhaps one of the most fatal effects which gaming , even in its least degrees , has produced on the public mind , is ...
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ADDISON advices appear April April 22 army arrived behaviour called character court desire discourse dream dress Duke of Anjou Duke of Marlborough enemy entertainment Esquire ESSAYISTS excellent farrago libelli favour France French gentleman give Hague honour hope humour instant ISAAC BICKERSTAFF James's Coffee-house June June 18 King king of Denmark lady late letters live Lord lover Madam Majesty manner marshal Villars ment mind minister Monsieur morning motley paper seizes N. S. say nature neral never obliged observed occasion Olivenza passion peace persons play pleasure present pretend Pretty Fellow Prince Eugene Quicquid agunt homines racter received RICHARD STEELE sense sent shew spirit STEELE STEELE's TATLER theme thing thought tion Tipstaff Torcy Tournay town treaty troops Whate'er White's Chocolate-house whole Will's Coffee-house woman writ write
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Page 347 - ... twere the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now, this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Page 347 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 346 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Page 346 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end both at the first, and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Page 346 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Page 175 - And every pointed thorn seem'd wrought in glass ; In pearls and rubies rich the hawthorns show, While through the ice the crimson berries glow.
Page 325 - This was spoken with so easy and fixed an assurance, that Madonella answered, ' Sir, under the notion of a pious thought, you deceive yourself in wishing an institution foreign to that of Providence. These desires were implanted in us for reverend purposes, in preserving the race of men, and giving opportunities for making our chastity more heroic.' The conference was continued in this celestial strain, and carried on so well by the managers on, both sides, that it created a second, and a third interview...
Page 223 - The plot and incidents of the play are laid with that subtilty of spirit which is peculiar to females of wit, and is very seldom well performed by those of the other sex, in whom craft in love is an act of invention, and not, as with women, the effect of nature and instinct.
Page 68 - The general Purpose of the whole has been to recommend Truth, Innocence, Honour, and Virtue, as the chief Ornaments of Life; but I considered, that Severity of Manners was absolutely necessary to him who would censure others, and for that Reason, and that only, chose to talk in a Mask.
Page 13 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven to inhabit among Men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses.