Spectator (The)Isaac, Tuckey & Company, 1836 - 714 стор. |
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... play is his hour of business ; exactly at five he passes through New - Inn , crosses through Russell- court , and takes a turn at Will's till the play begins ; he has his shoes rubbed and his perriwig powdered at the barber's as you go ...
... play is his hour of business ; exactly at five he passes through New - Inn , crosses through Russell- court , and takes a turn at Will's till the play begins ; he has his shoes rubbed and his perriwig powdered at the barber's as you go ...
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... play , to a gentleman who sat on his right hand , while I was at his left . The gentleman believed Will was talking to himself , when upon my looking with great approbation at a young thing in a box before us , he said , " I am quite of ...
... play , to a gentleman who sat on his right hand , while I was at his left . The gentleman believed Will was talking to himself , when upon my looking with great approbation at a young thing in a box before us , he said , " I am quite of ...
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... playing is now so managed , that in an air - pump , cutting up dogs alive , or impaling of you are not to be surprised ... play- house is a representation of the world in nothing so much as in this particular , that no one rises in it ...
... playing is now so managed , that in an air - pump , cutting up dogs alive , or impaling of you are not to be surprised ... play- house is a representation of the world in nothing so much as in this particular , that no one rises in it ...
Сторінка 29
... plays as well as operas . It certainly requires a degree of understanding to play justly but such is our condition , that we are to suspend our reason to perform our parts . As to scenes of madness , you know , Sir , there are noble ...
... plays as well as operas . It certainly requires a degree of understanding to play justly but such is our condition , that we are to suspend our reason to perform our parts . As to scenes of madness , you know , Sir , there are noble ...
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... play in rhyme ; which is as absurd in English , as a tragedy of hex- ameters would have been in Greek or Latin . The HOR . Ars . Poet . ver . 95 . solecism is , I think , still greater in those plays that Tragedians , too , lay by their ...
... play in rhyme ; which is as absurd in English , as a tragedy of hex- ameters would have been in Greek or Latin . The HOR . Ars . Poet . ver . 95 . solecism is , I think , still greater in those plays that Tragedians , too , lay by their ...
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Сторінка 287 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Сторінка 203 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Сторінка 129 - Psalms half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it ; sometimes, when he is pleased with the matter of his devotion, he pronounces "amen...
Сторінка 6 - His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
Сторінка 345 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Сторінка 6 - He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that were in fashion at the time of his repulse, which, in his merry humours, he tells us, has been in and out twelve times since he first wore it.
Сторінка 181 - Does life appear miserable, that gives thee opportunities of earning such a reward ? Is death to be feared, that will convey thee to so happy an existence ? Think not man was made in vain, who has such an Eternity reserved for him.
Сторінка 181 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them; every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Are not these, O Mirza, habitations worth contending for?
Сторінка 7 - He is very ready at that sort of discourse with which men usually entertain women. He has all his life dressed very well, and remembers habits as others do men. He can smile when one speaks to him, and laughs easily.
Сторінка 6 - He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world only as he thinks the world is in the wrong.