The British Essayists: TatlerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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Pàgina xxi
... to Lord Cutts , and had obtained by his means a com- pany in a regiment of fusileers . The serious- ness of this work exposed him to some ridicule among his companions , especially as it seems to have BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . xxi.
... to Lord Cutts , and had obtained by his means a com- pany in a regiment of fusileers . The serious- ness of this work exposed him to some ridicule among his companions , especially as it seems to have BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . xxi.
Pàgina xxii
James Ferguson. among his companions , especially as it seems to have failed in producing a correspondent re- gularity of morals ; he therefore thought fit , as he says , to enliven his character by appearing as the author of a comedy ...
James Ferguson. among his companions , especially as it seems to have failed in producing a correspondent re- gularity of morals ; he therefore thought fit , as he says , to enliven his character by appearing as the author of a comedy ...
Pàgina xxvii
... seems to have been little directed by judgment . The character of a pro- jector , indeed , was one part of Steele's compo- sition ; and it was both the effect and cause of that perpetual embarrassment of circumstances under which he ...
... seems to have been little directed by judgment . The character of a pro- jector , indeed , was one part of Steele's compo- sition ; and it was both the effect and cause of that perpetual embarrassment of circumstances under which he ...
Pàgina xxix
... seems to have been much indebted to the partnerships he formed ; but his name is certainly entitled to a place among those which throw peculiar lustre upon that period of English literature . Such are the outlines of the life of SIR ...
... seems to have been much indebted to the partnerships he formed ; but his name is certainly entitled to a place among those which throw peculiar lustre upon that period of English literature . Such are the outlines of the life of SIR ...
Pàgina xli
... seem to be in a temple dedicated to the service of the Goddess of VARIETY . ' " The invention of a paper calculated for general instruction and entertainment , abound- ing in elegant literature , appearing periodical- ly , and forming a ...
... seem to be in a temple dedicated to the service of the Goddess of VARIETY . ' " The invention of a paper calculated for general instruction and entertainment , abound- ing in elegant literature , appearing periodical- ly , and forming a ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 251 - 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, 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 251 - O reform it altogether, and let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them, for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered; that's villanous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Pàgina 251 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. 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.
Pàgina 308 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia...
Pàgina 250 - 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 xiv - To teach the minuter decencies and inferior duties, to regulate the practice of daily conversation, to correct those depravities which are rather ridiculous than criminal, and remove those grievances which, if they produce no lasting calamities, impress hourly vexation...
Pàgina xlvi - ... we cannot yet say that any of them have come up to the beauties of the original, I think we may venture to affirm, that every one of them writes and thinks much more justly than they did some time since.
Pàgina 250 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently, for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Pàgina 96 - Or winds begun through hazy skies to blow, At evening a keen eastern breeze arose, And the descending rain unsullied froze. Soon as the silent shades of night withdrew, The ruddy morn...
Pàgina 251 - 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; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end both at the first, and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.