The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Том 1C. Bathurst ... [et. al.], 1786 |
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... set and uninformed , and his whole vifage is deadened , by a long abfence of thought . He never appears in any alacrity , but when raised by wine ; at which time he is fure to come hither , and throw away a great deal of wit on fellows ...
... set and uninformed , and his whole vifage is deadened , by a long abfence of thought . He never appears in any alacrity , but when raised by wine ; at which time he is fure to come hither , and throw away a great deal of wit on fellows ...
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... set forth in a clear and lively manner , without unfeasonable paffions ; and the whole air of the Book , as to the language , the fentiments , and the reafon- ings , fhews it was written by one whofe virtue fits eafy about him , and to ...
... set forth in a clear and lively manner , without unfeasonable paffions ; and the whole air of the Book , as to the language , the fentiments , and the reafon- ings , fhews it was written by one whofe virtue fits eafy about him , and to ...
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... set of abfurd enthufiafts , who made their appearance about this time under the title of " French Pro- " phets . " TATLER , Nos 1 , 29 , and Note ; and GUARDIAN , Nos 29 , and 67. " I remember that about the end of Queen ANNE's reign ...
... set of abfurd enthufiafts , who made their appearance about this time under the title of " French Pro- " phets . " TATLER , Nos 1 , 29 , and Note ; and GUARDIAN , Nos 29 , and 67. " I remember that about the end of Queen ANNE's reign ...
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... set of men , otherwise fober and well - meaning , fhould in a banter- ing way give fo much real money for them . " Annot . on the TATLER , Part I. p . 78 . 66 Valeat quantum valere poteft . ferent ferent to stand in competition . He ...
... set of men , otherwise fober and well - meaning , fhould in a banter- ing way give fo much real money for them . " Annot . on the TATLER , Part I. p . 78 . 66 Valeat quantum valere poteft . ferent ferent to stand in competition . He ...
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... derstanding in any other place . We fee a world of pains taken , and the best years of life fpent in collecting a set of thoughts in a college for 4 in 338 N ° 30 . THE TATLER . be the refuge of the family in their distress, ...
... derstanding in any other place . We fee a world of pains taken , and the best years of life fpent in collecting a set of thoughts in a college for 4 in 338 N ° 30 . THE TATLER . be the refuge of the family in their distress, ...
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Сторінка 398 - 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.
Сторінка 400 - Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that neither having the accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man...
Сторінка 399 - Herod. Pray you, avoid it. 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.
Сторінка 400 - ... 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.
Сторінка 201 - Dawks hath all along been the rival of this great writer, and got himself a reputation from plagues and famines ; by which, in those days, he destroyed as great multitudes as he has lately done by the sword. In every dearth of news, Grand Cairo was sure to be unpeopled.
Сторінка 411 - Furthermore, it drove out of England (for that season) the Italian Opera, which had carried all before it for ten years.
Сторінка 5 - ... bosom. In a word, his attention to any thing but his passion was utterly gone. He has lost all the money he ever played for, and been confuted in every argument he has entered upon, since the moment he first saw her.
Сторінка 151 - Poets, for my raillery upon his work ; though I aimed at no more in that examination, but to convince him, and all men of genius, of the folly of laying themselves out on such plans as are below their characters. I hope too it was done without...
Сторінка 304 - ... the fatality (under which most men labour) of desiring to be what they are not, makes them go out of a method in which they might be received with applause, and would certainly excel, into one, wherein they will all their life have the air of strangers to what they aim at.
Сторінка 168 - The little triumph he appeared in, when he got such a trifling stock of ready money, though he had ventured so great sums with indifference, increased my admiration. But Pacolet began to talk to me. "Mr. Isaac, this to you looks wonderful, but not at all to us higher beings: that...