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Pàgina xi
... hand writ the distinguishing characters of men and women under the names of " Mufical Inftruments , " " The Distress ... hands which have been concerned in these volumes , with relation to the fpirit and genius of the work ; and am far ...
... hand writ the distinguishing characters of men and women under the names of " Mufical Inftruments , " " The Distress ... hands which have been concerned in these volumes , with relation to the fpirit and genius of the work ; and am far ...
Pàgina xxxvi
... hand with the firft works which were published under my name ; but before I loft the participation of that author's fame , I had * DR . SWIFT . See SWIFT's " Works , " Vol . III . p . 198. See alfo STEELE's Original Preface to the ...
... hand with the firft works which were published under my name ; but before I loft the participation of that author's fame , I had * DR . SWIFT . See SWIFT's " Works , " Vol . III . p . 198. See alfo STEELE's Original Preface to the ...
Pàgina 8
... hands of every man you met , you have now only a pack of cards ; and instead of the cavils about the turn of the expreffion , the elegance of the ftyle , and the like , the Learned now difpute only about the truth of the game . But ...
... hands of every man you met , you have now only a pack of cards ; and instead of the cavils about the turn of the expreffion , the elegance of the ftyle , and the like , the Learned now difpute only about the truth of the game . But ...
Pàgina 10
... hand . This was what a great General * alluded to , when being asked the names of those who were to be plenipotentiaries for the enfuing peace , he , an- fwered with a serious air , " There are about an " hundred thoufand of us . " Mr ...
... hand . This was what a great General * alluded to , when being asked the names of those who were to be plenipotentiaries for the enfuing peace , he , an- fwered with a serious air , " There are about an " hundred thoufand of us . " Mr ...
Pàgina 17
... " She fmiles , and anfwers only with a bow . Then clafping her about- " Why , let me die ! Thefe night - cloaths , MOLL , become thee mightily ! " VOL . I. C With With that he figh'd , her hand began to prefs N ° 2 . 17 THE TATLER . · '
... " She fmiles , and anfwers only with a bow . Then clafping her about- " Why , let me die ! Thefe night - cloaths , MOLL , become thee mightily ! " VOL . I. C With With that he figh'd , her hand began to prefs N ° 2 . 17 THE TATLER . · '
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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...