The British Essayists: TatlerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... entered of Morton - college , Oxford . Of his academical life nothing is known , except that he composed a comedy during his residence , which , by the advice of a fellow - colegian , he had the good sense to suppress . He left the ...
... entered of Morton - college , Oxford . Of his academical life nothing is known , except that he composed a comedy during his residence , which , by the advice of a fellow - colegian , he had the good sense to suppress . He left the ...
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... entered the house as mem- ber for Boroughbridge ; and in April 1715 he received the honour of knighthood on present- ing an address . The more substantial reward of 5001. was also given him by Sir Robert Walpole for special services ...
... entered the house as mem- ber for Boroughbridge ; and in April 1715 he received the honour of knighthood on present- ing an address . The more substantial reward of 5001. was also given him by Sir Robert Walpole for special services ...
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... entered more into detail would have led us into a very wide field , which to most readers would have been barren of entertainment . The TATLER rose from small beginnings . It does not appear that STEELE c 3 BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . xxix.
... entered more into detail would have led us into a very wide field , which to most readers would have been barren of entertainment . The TATLER rose from small beginnings . It does not appear that STEELE c 3 BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . xxix.
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... entering into affairs , have equally vanished . And experience has shown , that men of letters are not only qualified with a greater capacity , but also a greater integrity in the dispatch of business . Your own studies have been ...
... entering into affairs , have equally vanished . And experience has shown , that men of letters are not only qualified with a greater capacity , but also a greater integrity in the dispatch of business . Your own studies have been ...
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... entering upon this work , a certain uncommon way of thinking , and a turn in conversation peculiar to that agreeable gen- tleman , rendered his company very advantageous to one whose imagination was to be continually em- ployed upon ...
... entering upon this work , a certain uncommon way of thinking , and a turn in conversation peculiar to that agreeable gen- tleman , rendered his company very advantageous to one whose imagination was to be continually em- ployed upon ...
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Страница 251 - 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, 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.
Страница 251 - O reform it altogether, 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 villanous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Страница 251 - ... 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 the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Страница 308 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia...
Страница 250 - 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.
Страница xiv - 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...
Страница xlvi - ... we cannot yet say that any of them have come up to the beauties of the original, I think we may venture to affirm, that every one of them writes and thinks much more justly than they did some time since.
Страница 250 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently, for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Страница 96 - Or winds begun through hazy skies to blow, At evening a keen eastern breeze arose, And the descending rain unsullied froze. Soon as the silent shades of night withdrew, The ruddy morn...
Страница 251 - 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.