The Tatler; corrected from the originals, with a preface, historical and biographical, by A. Chalmers, Volum 4Alexander Chalmers 1817 |
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... civil People - Character of the most agreeable Companion .... 209. Scene between Alexander the Great and his Physician proposed to an Historical Painter STEELE FULLER STEELE THE TATLER . No 145. TUESDAY , MARCH 14 , CONTENTS . ix.
... civil People - Character of the most agreeable Companion .... 209. Scene between Alexander the Great and his Physician proposed to an Historical Painter STEELE FULLER STEELE THE TATLER . No 145. TUESDAY , MARCH 14 , CONTENTS . ix.
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Alexander Chalmers. THE TATLER . No 145. TUESDAY , MARCH 14 , 1709-10 . Nescio quis teneros oculus mihi fascinat agnos . VIRG . Ecl . iii . 103 . Ah ! What ill eyes bewitch my tender lambs ? White's Chocolate - house , March 13 . THIS ...
Alexander Chalmers. THE TATLER . No 145. TUESDAY , MARCH 14 , 1709-10 . Nescio quis teneros oculus mihi fascinat agnos . VIRG . Ecl . iii . 103 . Ah ! What ill eyes bewitch my tender lambs ? White's Chocolate - house , March 13 . THIS ...
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... March 11 . " Some time since , you were pleased to mention the beauties in the New Exchange and Westminster- hall , and in my judgment were not very impartial ; for if you were pleased to allow there was one God- dess in the New ...
... March 11 . " Some time since , you were pleased to mention the beauties in the New Exchange and Westminster- hall , and in my judgment were not very impartial ; for if you were pleased to allow there was one God- dess in the New ...
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... March 15 . AMONG the various sets of correspondents who apply to me for advice , and send up their cases from all parts of Great Britain , there are none who are more importunate with me , and whom I am more inclined to answer , than ...
... March 15 . AMONG the various sets of correspondents who apply to me for advice , and send up their cases from all parts of Great Britain , there are none who are more importunate with me , and whom I am more inclined to answer , than ...
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... can judge what will occasion grief or joy in the heart of a human creature , and what will prove a blessing or a calamity to the person on whom it is bestowed . " N ° 147. SATURDAY , MARCH 18 , 1709-10 . No 146 . 11 TATLER .
... can judge what will occasion grief or joy in the heart of a human creature , and what will prove a blessing or a calamity to the person on whom it is bestowed . " N ° 147. SATURDAY , MARCH 18 , 1709-10 . No 146 . 11 TATLER .
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 26 - Her husband the relater she preferr'd Before the angel, and of him to ask Chose rather; he, she knew, would intermix Grateful digressions, and solve high dispute With conjugal caresses: from his lip Not words alone pleased her.
Pàgina 221 - Full of crusadoes : and, but my noble Moor Is true of mind and made of no such baseness As jealous creatures are, it were enough To put him to ill thinking. Emil. Is he not jealous? Des. Who, he ? I think the sun where he was born Drew all such humours from him.
Pàgina 12 - READING is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and; invigorated; by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
Pàgina 222 - O now, for ever, Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war...
Pàgina 222 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
Pàgina 98 - YESTERDAY came hither about two hours before the company generally make their appearance, with a design to read over all the newspapers ; but upon my sitting down I was accosted by Ned Softly, who saw me from a corner in the other end of the room, where I found he had been writing something.
Pàgina 8 - Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The source of evil one, and one of good ; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills; To most, he mingles both : the wretch decreed To taste the bad, unmix'd, is cursed indeed; Pursued by wrongs, by meagre famine driven, He wanders, outcast both of earth and heaven.
Pàgina 190 - I say, when we let our thoughts wander from such noble objects, and consider the havoc which is made among the tender and the innocent, pity enters with an unmixed softness, and possesses all our souls at once. Here (were there words to express such sentiments with proper tenderness) I should record the beauty, innocence, and untimely death, of the first object my eyes ever beheld with love.
Pàgina 101 - assured me, he would rather have written that Ah ! than to have been the author of the JEneid. He inded objected, that I made Mira's pen like a quill in one of the lines, and like a dart in the other. But as to that " " Oh ! as to that," says I, " it is but supposing Cupid to be like a porcupine, and his quills and darts will be the same thing.
Pàgina 101 - Pray how do you like that ah ! Doth it not make a pretty figure in that place ? Ah ! — it looks as if I felt the dart, and cried out at being pricked with it. " For, ah ! it wounds me like his dart.