The Tatler; corrected from the originals, with a preface, historical and biographical, by A. Chalmers, Volume 1Alexander Chalmers 1817 |
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... present Age - Letter on Mr. Bickerstaff's Prophecy of his Death- Witchcraft - Continental Intelligence 22. Cynthia in Love - Lindamira's Lovers— Cave Underhill - Young Lady in Love with a Rake 23. Cure for Fits in Married Ladies ...
... present Age - Letter on Mr. Bickerstaff's Prophecy of his Death- Witchcraft - Continental Intelligence 22. Cynthia in Love - Lindamira's Lovers— Cave Underhill - Young Lady in Love with a Rake 23. Cure for Fits in Married Ladies ...
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... present to genius and ima- gination . If our ESSAYISTs have excelled in humour , they owe their materials and their Too trivial for the chastisement of the law , and too fantastical for the cognizance of the pulpit . ' Spec . No. 34 ...
... present to genius and ima- gination . If our ESSAYISTs have excelled in humour , they owe their materials and their Too trivial for the chastisement of the law , and too fantastical for the cognizance of the pulpit . ' Spec . No. 34 ...
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... present him with such opportunities of exposing improprieties and wrong notions to ridicule , as no systematic study , or philo- sophical contemplation could suggest . When the ESSAYISTS , whose works compose these volumes , began to ...
... present him with such opportunities of exposing improprieties and wrong notions to ridicule , as no systematic study , or philo- sophical contemplation could suggest . When the ESSAYISTS , whose works compose these volumes , began to ...
Page xxix
... presents us with another series of characters and remarks , of great importance to those who are entering into life , and who are more liable to mistakes in forming early connexions , than to any other of the evils of inexperience . Its ...
... presents us with another series of characters and remarks , of great importance to those who are entering into life , and who are more liable to mistakes in forming early connexions , than to any other of the evils of inexperience . Its ...
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... present moment the young of all ranks are early initiated in the science of play , and with no other check than a hope , sometimes casually expressed , that what is intended for amusement may not become their more serious study ...
... present moment the young of all ranks are early initiated in the science of play , and with no other check than a hope , sometimes casually expressed , that what is intended for amusement may not become their more serious study ...
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Page 270 - ... 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 270 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. 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 xx - Congreve was not tenable : whatever glosses he might use for the defence or palliation of single passages, the general tenour and tendency of his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be regulated.
Page xv - 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.
Page 270 - 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'er step not the modesty of nature...
Page 102 - That wave and glitter in the distant sun. When, if a sudden gust of wind arise, The brittle forest into atoms flies: The crackling wood beneath the tempest bends, And in a spangled shower the prospect ends...
Page 270 - O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: Pray you, avoid it.
Page 270 - ... accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page lxxxii - I shall not carry my 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 38 - Only tell her that I love, Leave the rest to her and fate; Some kind planet from above May, perhaps, her passion move; Lovers on their stars must wait 3.