The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Том 1C. Bathurst ... [et. al.], 1786 |
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... use to mankind ; and the capacities which would have rendered you the greatest poet of your age , have to the advantage . of Great Britain been employed in pursuits which : have made You the most able and unbiaffed pa- triot . A ...
... use to mankind ; and the capacities which would have rendered you the greatest poet of your age , have to the advantage . of Great Britain been employed in pursuits which : have made You the most able and unbiaffed pa- triot . A ...
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... use of the good peo- ple of England , have certainly very whole- " fome effects , and are laudable in their parti- " cular kinds , they do not feem to come up to " the main defign of fuch narrations , which , " I humbly prefume , fhould ...
... use of the good peo- ple of England , have certainly very whole- " fome effects , and are laudable in their parti- " cular kinds , they do not feem to come up to " the main defign of fuch narrations , which , " I humbly prefume , fhould ...
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... use of . Among others it is said , There is a general murmuring among the people , of France , though at the fame time all my An humourous compliment to the Duke of MARLBO- ROUGH , who , as Mr. STEELE infinuates , fo reduced the French ...
... use of . Among others it is said , There is a general murmuring among the people , of France , though at the fame time all my An humourous compliment to the Duke of MARLBO- ROUGH , who , as Mr. STEELE infinuates , fo reduced the French ...
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... uses all imaginable fhifts to elude the treaty concluded with the Emperor , and that he demanded the immediate reftitution of Comacchio ; infifting alfo , that his Imperial Majefty should ask par- don , and defire abfolution for what ...
... uses all imaginable fhifts to elude the treaty concluded with the Emperor , and that he demanded the immediate reftitution of Comacchio ; infifting alfo , that his Imperial Majefty should ask par- don , and defire abfolution for what ...
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... use of ; but will not en- croach upon the above - mentioned adepts , or any other . At the fame time , I shall take all the privileges I may , as an Englishman , and will lay hold of the late act of naturalization to introduce what I ...
... use of ; but will not en- croach upon the above - mentioned adepts , or any other . At the fame time , I shall take all the privileges I may , as an Englishman , and will lay hold of the late act of naturalization to introduce what I ...
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The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq: ... Sir Richard Steele,Joseph Addison Повний перегляд - 1751 |
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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...