The British Essayists: TatlerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... talk as we sat at dinner , which , if my memory does not fail me , for the benefit of the world , I shall set down as he spoke it ; which was much as follows , and may be of great use to those parents who seem to make it a rule , that ...
... talk as we sat at dinner , which , if my memory does not fail me , for the benefit of the world , I shall set down as he spoke it ; which was much as follows , and may be of great use to those parents who seem to make it a rule , that ...
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... talking in party upon all occasions , without respect to merit or worth on the contrary side ; so there is no part we can act so justifiable as to speak our mind when we see things urged to extremity , against all that is praise ...
... talking in party upon all occasions , without respect to merit or worth on the contrary side ; so there is no part we can act so justifiable as to speak our mind when we see things urged to extremity , against all that is praise ...
第 13 頁
... talk to a very young man , let him be of never so good sense , and he shall smile when you speak of since- rity in a courtier , good sense in a soldier , or honesty in a politician . The reason of this is , that you hardly see one play ...
... talk to a very young man , let him be of never so good sense , and he shall smile when you speak of since- rity in a courtier , good sense in a soldier , or honesty in a politician . The reason of this is , that you hardly see one play ...
第 20 頁
... talk like rakes , and footmen make similes : but this writer knows men , which make his plays reasonable entertainments , while the scenes of most others are like the tunes between the acts . They are perhaps agreeable sounds ; but they ...
... talk like rakes , and footmen make similes : but this writer knows men , which make his plays reasonable entertainments , while the scenes of most others are like the tunes between the acts . They are perhaps agreeable sounds ; but they ...
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... talking creatures we meet in public places , it will no longer be such . Ralph Shallow is a young fellow , that has not by nature any the least propensity to strike into what has not been VOL . IV . E observed and said , every day of ...
... talking creatures we meet in public places , it will no longer be such . Ralph Shallow is a young fellow , that has not by nature any the least propensity to strike into what has not been VOL . IV . E observed and said , every day of ...
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第 124 頁 - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
第 197 頁 - So saying, on he led his radiant files, Dazzling the moon; these to the bower direct In search of whom they sought : him there they found Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve, Assaying by his devilish art to reach The organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions as he list, phantasms and dreams...
第 329 頁 - Thy creatures have been my books, but thy scriptures much more. I have sought thee in the courts, fields, and gardens; but I have found thee in thy temples.
第 203 頁 - Boxed in a chair the beau impatient sits, While spouts run clattering o'er the roof by fits; And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds; he trembles from within. So when Troy chairmen bore the wooden steed, Pregnant with Greeks, impatient to be freed, (Those bully Greeks, who, as the moderns do, Instead of paying chairmen, run them through), Laocoon struck the outside with his spear, And each imprisoned hero quaked for fear...
第 275 頁 - If he be deigned the honour to sit down. Soon as the tarts appear, Sir Crape, withdraw ! Those dainties are not for a spiritual maw ; Observe your distance, and be sure to stand Hard by the cistern with your cap in hand; There for diversion you may pick your teeth, Till the kind voider* comes for your relief.
第 197 頁 - Assaying by his devilish art to reach The organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions as he list, phantasms and dreams, Or if, inspiring venom, he might taint...
第 168 頁 - That from their noyance he no where can rest, But with his clownish hands their tender wings He brusheth oft, and oft doth mar their murmurings.
第 171 頁 - ... been improved in the foregoing hundred: And this is what I design chiefly to enlarge upon, leaving the former evils to your animadversion. " But instead of giving you a list of the late refinements crept into our language, I here send you...
第 313 頁 - Such whispering wak'd her, but with startled eye On Adam, whom embracing, thus she spake. O sole in whom my thoughts find all repose, My glory, my perfection ! glad I see Thy face, and morn...
第 246 頁 - ... fast from hand to hand, that before I was five years old, I had travelled into almost every corner of the nation. But in the beginning of my sixth year, to my unspeakable grief, I fell into the hands of a miserable old fellow, who clapped me into an iron chest, where I found five hundred more of my own quality who lay under the same confinement. The only relief we had, was to be taken out and counted over in the fresh air every morning and evening. After an imprisonment of several years, we heard...