The Tatler; corrected from the originals, with a preface, historical and biographical, by A. Chalmers, Volum 4Alexander Chalmers 1817 |
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Pàgina 8
... poets . As I was sitting after dinner in my elbow - chair , I took up Homer , and dipped into that famous speech of Achilles to Priam * , in which he tells him , that Jupiter has by him two great vessels , the one filled with blessings ...
... poets . As I was sitting after dinner in my elbow - chair , I took up Homer , and dipped into that famous speech of Achilles to Priam * , in which he tells him , that Jupiter has by him two great vessels , the one filled with blessings ...
Pàgina 12
... poet whom I men- tioned in my last paper , and whom it is very difficult to lay aside when one is engaged in the reading of him . And this I particularly design for the use of several of my fair correspondents , who in their letters ...
... poet whom I men- tioned in my last paper , and whom it is very difficult to lay aside when one is engaged in the reading of him . And this I particularly design for the use of several of my fair correspondents , who in their letters ...
Pàgina 13
... poet describes at length , and which the goddess chose out as the most proper to set off her person to the best advantage . In the next place , she made a visit to Venus , the deity who presides over love , and begged of her , as a ...
... poet describes at length , and which the goddess chose out as the most proper to set off her person to the best advantage . In the next place , she made a visit to Venus , the deity who presides over love , and begged of her , as a ...
Pàgina 14
... poet then represents him in so great an ardour , that , without going up to the house which had been built by the hands of Vulcan according to Juno's direction , he threw a golden cloud over their heads as they sat upon the top of mount ...
... poet then represents him in so great an ardour , that , without going up to the house which had been built by the hands of Vulcan according to Juno's direction , he threw a golden cloud over their heads as they sat upon the top of mount ...
Pàgina 36
... poet scarce introduces a single person , who doth not suggest some useful precept to his reader , and designs his description of the dead for the amendment of the living . The Ulysses , after having made a very plenteous sa- crifice ...
... poet scarce introduces a single person , who doth not suggest some useful precept to his reader , and designs his description of the dead for the amendment of the living . The Ulysses , after having made a very plenteous sa- crifice ...
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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.