The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Volum 1C. Bathurst ... [et. al.], 1786 |
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Pàgina x
... died at the battle of Mons , and has a monument in Westminster abbey , fuit- able to the respect which is due to his wit and his valour . There are through the course of the work very many incidents which were written by un- known ...
... died at the battle of Mons , and has a monument in Westminster abbey , fuit- able to the respect which is due to his wit and his valour . There are through the course of the work very many incidents which were written by un- known ...
Pàgina xxxv
... died in 1712 , aged 44 , and left his eftate to be equally di- vided between his fifter , his fon , and his fon's mother . It amounted to little more than 3000l . His " Life and Pofthumous Works " were published by Mr. Oldmixon , 1715 ...
... died in 1712 , aged 44 , and left his eftate to be equally di- vided between his fifter , his fon , and his fon's mother . It amounted to little more than 3000l . His " Life and Pofthumous Works " were published by Mr. Oldmixon , 1715 ...
Pàgina xl
... died , Jan. 22 , 1761 , aged 80 years . He married the Lady Mary Pierrepont , eldest daughter to his Grace Evelyn Duke of Kingston , and by her ( who died Auguft 21 , 1762 ) he had iffue an only fon Ed- ward - Wortley Montagu , who was ...
... died , Jan. 22 , 1761 , aged 80 years . He married the Lady Mary Pierrepont , eldest daughter to his Grace Evelyn Duke of Kingston , and by her ( who died Auguft 21 , 1762 ) he had iffue an only fon Ed- ward - Wortley Montagu , who was ...
Pàgina xli
... died , it is faid , very fuddenly , without being able to alter his will , as he intended , in favour of his fon , an ex- traordinary and ingenious man , author of the " Reflections on " the rife and fall of ancient Republics , " & c ...
... died , it is faid , very fuddenly , without being able to alter his will , as he intended , in favour of his fon , an ex- traordinary and ingenious man , author of the " Reflections on " the rife and fall of ancient Republics , " & c ...
Pàgina xliii
... died , Oct. 10 , 1723. It is recorded , and ought always to be mentioned to the honour of Lord CowPER , that when he was Chancellor , though in friendship with the Duke of MARLBOROUGH , and of the fame political principles , he nobly ...
... died , Oct. 10 , 1723. It is recorded , and ought always to be mentioned to the honour of Lord CowPER , that when he was Chancellor , though in friendship with the Duke of MARLBOROUGH , and of the fame political principles , he nobly ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 398 - 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.
Pàgina 400 - 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. 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...
Pàgina 399 - Herod. Pray you, avoid it. 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.
Pàgina 400 - ... 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.
Pàgina 201 - Dawks hath all along been the rival of this great writer, and got himself a reputation from plagues and famines ; by which, in those days, he destroyed as great multitudes as he has lately done by the sword. In every dearth of news, Grand Cairo was sure to be unpeopled.
Pàgina 411 - Furthermore, it drove out of England (for that season) the Italian Opera, which had carried all before it for ten years.
Pàgina 5 - ... bosom. In a word, his attention to any thing but his passion was utterly gone. He has lost all the money he ever played for, and been confuted in every argument he has entered upon, since the moment he first saw her.
Pàgina 151 - Poets, for my raillery upon his work ; though I aimed at no more in that examination, but to convince him, and all men of genius, of the folly of laying themselves out on such plans as are below their characters. I hope too it was done without...
Pàgina 304 - ... the fatality (under which most men labour) of desiring to be what they are not, makes them go out of a method in which they might be received with applause, and would certainly excel, into one, wherein they will all their life have the air of strangers to what they aim at.
Pàgina 168 - The little triumph he appeared in, when he got such a trifling stock of ready money, though he had ventured so great sums with indifference, increased my admiration. But Pacolet began to talk to me. "Mr. Isaac, this to you looks wonderful, but not at all to us higher beings: that...