The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Volum 1C. Bathurst ... [et. al.], 1786 |
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... half a " century fupplied the English nation , in a great " meafure , with principles of fpeculation , and " rules of practice , and given their authors a " claim to be mentioned amongst the benefac- " tors of mankind , 66 66 66 6 " To ...
... half a " century fupplied the English nation , in a great " meafure , with principles of fpeculation , and " rules of practice , and given their authors a " claim to be mentioned amongst the benefac- " tors of mankind , 66 66 66 6 " To ...
Pàgina 15
... half hour after you come home- But I find I am not in humour for telling a tale , and nothing in nature is fo ungraceful as story- telling against the grain , therefore take it as the Author has given it you * . The MEDICINE . A Tale ...
... half hour after you come home- But I find I am not in humour for telling a tale , and nothing in nature is fo ungraceful as story- telling against the grain , therefore take it as the Author has given it you * . The MEDICINE . A Tale ...
Pàgina 28
... half , is a week gone in a very pretty work , upon this hint : he is writing an epigram to a young virgin who knits very well ( it is a thousand pities he is a Jacobite ) : but his epigram is by way of advice to this damfel , to knit ...
... half , is a week gone in a very pretty work , upon this hint : he is writing an epigram to a young virgin who knits very well ( it is a thousand pities he is a Jacobite ) : but his epigram is by way of advice to this damfel , to knit ...
Pàgina 71
... half - lawyer , and a com- " pleat juftice . The two next , a chymift , and " a projector . The third couple , a treasury- " folicitor , and a small courtier . " To make my funeral ( what that folemnity , " when done to common men ...
... half - lawyer , and a com- " pleat juftice . The two next , a chymift , and " a projector . The third couple , a treasury- " folicitor , and a small courtier . " To make my funeral ( what that folemnity , " when done to common men ...
Pàgina 88
... half through it a fecond time , when the pleafing ideas of Elyfian fields , de- ceased worthies walking in them , fincere lovers enjoying their languifhment without pain , com- paffion for the unhappy fpirits who had mif- fpent their ...
... half through it a fecond time , when the pleafing ideas of Elyfian fields , de- ceased worthies walking in them , fincere lovers enjoying their languifhment without pain , com- paffion for the unhappy fpirits who had mif- fpent their ...
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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...