The Tatler; corrected from the originals, with a preface, historical and biographical, by A. Chalmers, Volum 4Alexander Chalmers 1817 |
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Pàgina 1
... late request of two indulgent parents , touching the care of a young daughter , whom they design to send to a boarding - school , or keep at home , according to my determination ; but I am diverted from that subject by letters which I ...
... late request of two indulgent parents , touching the care of a young daughter , whom they design to send to a boarding - school , or keep at home , according to my determination ; but I am diverted from that subject by letters which I ...
Pàgina 17
... late years , the maids of honour in queen Eliza- beth's time were allowed three rumps of beef for their breakfast . Mutton has likewise been in great repute among our valiant countrymen ; but was formerly observed to be the food rather ...
... late years , the maids of honour in queen Eliza- beth's time were allowed three rumps of beef for their breakfast . Mutton has likewise been in great repute among our valiant countrymen ; but was formerly observed to be the food rather ...
Pàgina 21
... late conversation , which I am going to give an account of . I made a visit the other day to a family for which I have a great honour , and found the father , the mother , and two or three of the younger children , drop off designedly ...
... late conversation , which I am going to give an account of . I made a visit the other day to a family for which I have a great honour , and found the father , the mother , and two or three of the younger children , drop off designedly ...
Pàgina 35
... late , Sit mihi fas audita loqui ; sit numine vestro Pandere res altá terrû & caligine mersas . VIRG . Æn . vi . 264 . Infernal gods , who rule the shades below , Chaos and Phlegethon , the realms of woe ; Grant what I've heard I may to ...
... late , Sit mihi fas audita loqui ; sit numine vestro Pandere res altá terrû & caligine mersas . VIRG . Æn . vi . 264 . Infernal gods , who rule the shades below , Chaos and Phlegethon , the realms of woe ; Grant what I've heard I may to ...
Pàgina 57
... late con- duct of a certain prince affords great matter of speculation . This certain prince , " says the up- holsterer , " whom they are all so cautious of naming , I take to be- Upon which , though there was nobody near us , he ...
... late con- duct of a certain prince affords great matter of speculation . This certain prince , " says the up- holsterer , " whom they are all so cautious of naming , I take to be- Upon which , though there was nobody near us , he ...
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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.