The British Essayists: The TatlerJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son, W. J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, J. Sewell, R. Faulder, G. and W. Nicol, T. Payne, G. and J. Robinson, W. Lowndes, G. Wilkie, J. Mathews, P. McQueen, Ogilvy and Son, J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, Darton and Harvey, J. Nunn, Lackington and Company, D. Walker, Clarke and Son, G. Kearsley, C. Law, J. White, Longman and Rees, Cadell, Jun. and Davies, J. Barker, T. Kay, Wynne and Company, Pote and Company, Carpenter and Company, W. Miller, Murray and Highley, S. Bagster, T. Hurst, T. Boosey, R. Pheney, W. Baynes, J. Harding, R. H. Evans, J. Mawman; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1803 |
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... tell the town , that they were a parcel of fops , fools , and vain coquettes : but in such a manner , as even pleased them , and made them more than half - inclined to believe that he spoke truth * . " The present state of Wit ...
... tell the town , that they were a parcel of fops , fools , and vain coquettes : but in such a manner , as even pleased them , and made them more than half - inclined to believe that he spoke truth * . " The present state of Wit ...
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... tell you all that will happen before it comes to pass . " But this last faculty I shall use very sparingly , and speak but of few things until they are passed † , for fear of divulging matters which may offend our superiors . " White's ...
... tell you all that will happen before it comes to pass . " But this last faculty I shall use very sparingly , and speak but of few things until they are passed † , for fear of divulging matters which may offend our superiors . " White's ...
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... telling a tale ; and nothing in nature is so ungraceful as story - telling against the grain ; therefore take it as the author has given it to you * , THE MEDICINE . A TALE - FOR THE LADIES . Miss Molly , a fam'd Toast , was fair and ...
... telling a tale ; and nothing in nature is so ungraceful as story - telling against the grain ; therefore take it as the author has given it to you * , THE MEDICINE . A TALE - FOR THE LADIES . Miss Molly , a fam'd Toast , was fair and ...
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... 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 . " But the stars I am so intimately acquainted with , that I can assure him he will ...
... 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 . " But the stars I am so intimately acquainted with , that I can assure him he will ...
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... tell for news such things ( let them have happened never so much before the time of writing ) as have escaped public notice , or have been misrepresented to the world ; provided that I am still within rules , and trespass not as a ...
... tell for news such things ( let them have happened never so much before the time of writing ) as have escaped public notice , or have been misrepresented to the world ; provided that I am still within rules , and trespass not as a ...
Términos y frases comunes
acted affairs appear April April 18 army arrived behaviour called character Chloe Court desire discourse dream dress Duke of Anjou Duke of Marlborough enemy entertainment Esquire excellent eyes farrago libelli favour France French gentleman Ghent give Hague hear honour hope humour instant ISAAC BICKERSTAFF James's Coffee-house John Vanbrugh June King King of Denmark lady late letters live Lord Madam Majesty manner marshal Villars matter Minister Monsieur morning motley paper seizes nature never obliged observed occasion Olivenza passion peace persons play pleasure poet present pretend Pretty Fellow Prince Eugene Quicquid agunt bomines racter Rake received RICHARD STEELE Rouille sense sent shew spirit STEELE taken TATLER theme thing thought tion Tom D'Urfey Torcy Tournay town treaty troops wherein White's Chocolate-house whole Will's Coffee-house writ write young
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Página 208 - ... 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.
Página 208 - 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.
Página 6 - All accounts of gallantry, pleasure, and entertainment, shall be under the article of White's Chocolate-house ; poetry, under that of Will's Coffee-house ; learning, under the title of Grecian ; foreign and domestic news, you will have from St. James's Coffee-house ; and what else I shall on any other subject offer, shall be dated from my own apartment.
Página 208 - 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.
Página xi - To teach the minuter decencies and inferior duties, to regulate the practice of daily conversation, to correct those depravities which are rather ridiculous than criminal, and remove those grievances which, if they produce no lasting calamities, impress hourly vexation...
Página 7 - Dryden frequented it ; where you used to see songs, epigrams, and satires, in the hands of every man you met, you have now only a pack of cards ; and instead of the cavils about the turn of the expression, the elegance of the style, and the like, the learned now dispute only about the truth of the game.
Página 208 - 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.
Página 209 - 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.
Página 117 - Buckley * has shed as much blood as the former ; but I cannot forbear saying (and I hope it will not look like envy) that we regard our brother Buckley as a kind of Drawcansir, who spares neither friend nor foe ; but generally kills as many of his own side as the enemy's.
Página 194 - Madonella, a lady who had writ a fine book concerning the recluse life, and was the projectrix of the foundation She approaches into the hall ; and Rake, knowing the dignity of his own mien and aspect, goes deputy from his company. She begins, "Sir, I am obliged to follow the servant, who was sent out to know what affair could make strangers press upon a solitude which we, who are to inhabit this place, have devoted to heaven and our own thoughts ?"