The Tatler; corrected from the originals, with a preface, historical and biographical, by A. Chalmers, Volume 1Alexander Chalmers 1817 |
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... pretended attachments , and disguised selfishness , traced to their source , and exposed to contempt or ridicule . Such instructions supply a very necessary branch of that knowledge of the world ' which is generally purchased at a much ...
... pretended attachments , and disguised selfishness , traced to their source , and exposed to contempt or ridicule . Such instructions supply a very necessary branch of that knowledge of the world ' which is generally purchased at a much ...
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... pretends to account for BICKERSTAFF'S re- suming his functions . Nos . 5 and 20 , were published by Dr. HAWKESWORTH in SWIFT'S Works ; but it is singular , that the former of these should have escaped the animadver- sion of ...
... pretends to account for BICKERSTAFF'S re- suming his functions . Nos . 5 and 20 , were published by Dr. HAWKESWORTH in SWIFT'S Works ; but it is singular , that the former of these should have escaped the animadver- sion of ...
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... pretended to by Mr. STEELE . ' an From a scarce pamphlet in the Lambeth library , supposed to be written by GAY , we have authority to add , that STEELE's disap- pearing was bewailed as some general cala- mity every one wanted so ...
... pretended to by Mr. STEELE . ' an From a scarce pamphlet in the Lambeth library , supposed to be written by GAY , we have authority to add , that STEELE's disap- pearing was bewailed as some general cala- mity every one wanted so ...
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... pretend to be affected with , or take the liberty to acknowledge , your great talents and public virtues . It gives a pleasing prospect to your friends , that is to say , to the friends of your country , that you have passed through the ...
... pretend to be affected with , or take the liberty to acknowledge , your great talents and public virtues . It gives a pleasing prospect to your friends , that is to say , to the friends of your country , that you have passed through the ...
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... pretending to modesty in making this acknowledgment . What a man ob- tains from the good opinion and friendship of wor- thy men , is a much greater honour than he can pos- sibly reap from any accomplishments of his own . But all the ...
... pretending to modesty in making this acknowledgment . What a man ob- tains from the good opinion and friendship of wor- thy men , is a much greater honour than he can pos- sibly reap from any accomplishments of his own . But all the ...
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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.