The Tatler; corrected from the originals, with a preface, historical and biographical, by A. Chalmers, Volume 5Alexander Chalmers 1817 |
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... writing or speaking . I have studied and writ on this important subject , until I almost despair of making reformation in the females of this island ; where we have more beauty than in any spot in the universe , if we did not disguise ...
... writing or speaking . I have studied and writ on this important subject , until I almost despair of making reformation in the females of this island ; where we have more beauty than in any spot in the universe , if we did not disguise ...
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... writings , for enlarging the territories of virtue and honour , you have multiplied the opportunities of attaining to heroic virtue ; and have hinted , that in whatever state of life man is , if he does things above what is ordinarily ...
... writings , for enlarging the territories of virtue and honour , you have multiplied the opportunities of attaining to heroic virtue ; and have hinted , that in whatever state of life man is , if he does things above what is ordinarily ...
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... writings of polite authors , receive an additional entertainment from the country , as it revives in their memories those charming descriptions , with which such authors do frequently abound . I was thinking of the foregoing beautiful ...
... writings of polite authors , receive an additional entertainment from the country , as it revives in their memories those charming descriptions , with which such authors do frequently abound . I was thinking of the foregoing beautiful ...
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... writings hath been turned to of late years , has been the manage- ment of controversy : insomuch that above half the advertisements one meets with now - a - days are purely polemical . The inventors of " Strops for razors " have written ...
... writings hath been turned to of late years , has been the manage- ment of controversy : insomuch that above half the advertisements one meets with now - a - days are purely polemical . The inventors of " Strops for razors " have written ...
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... writings is to in- form the world , where they may be furnished with almost every thing that is necessary for life ... writing advertisements , is the finding out a proper method to catch the reader's eye , without which a good thing may ...
... writings is to in- form the world , where they may be furnished with almost every thing that is necessary for life ... writing advertisements , is the finding out a proper method to catch the reader's eye , without which a good thing may ...
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Page 38 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 123 - So saying, on he led his radiant files, Dazzling the moon; these to the bower direct In search of whom they sought : him there they found Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve, Assaying by his devilish art to reach The organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions as he list, phantasms and dreams...
Page 128 - That swill'd more liquor than it could contain, And, like a drunkard, gives it up again. Brisk Susan whips her linen from the rope, While the first drizzling...
Page 128 - tis fair, yet seems to call a coach. The tuck'd-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides. Here various kinds by various fortunes led, Commence acquaintance underneath a shed. Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs, Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs.
Page 177 - But in the beginning of my sixth year, to my unspeakable grief, I fell into the hands of a miserable old fellow, who clapped me into an iron chest, where I found five hundred more of my own quality who lay under the same confinement. The only relief we had, was to be taken out, and counted over in the fresh air every morning and evening. After an imprisonment of several years, we heard somebody knocking at our chest, and breaking it open with a hammer.
Page 203 - At about half a mile's distance from our cabin, we heard the groanings of a bear, which at first startled us ; but upon inquiry, we were informed by some of our company, that he was dead, and now lay in salt, having been killed upon that very spot about a fortnight before, in the time of the frost.
Page 93 - Gothic strain, and a natural tendency towards relapsing into barbarity, which delights in monosyllables and uniting of mute consonants, as it is observable in all the northern languages. And this is still more visible in the next refinement, which consists in pronouncing the first syllable in a word that has many, and dismissing the rest, such as Phizz, Hipps, Mob, Pozz, Rep, and many more, when we are already overloaded with monosyllables, which are the disgrace of our language.
Page 129 - Now from all parts the swelling kennels flow, And bear their trophies with them as they go: Filth of all hues and odours, seem to tell What street they sailed from, by their sight and smell.
Page 178 - The apothecary gave me to an herb-woman, the herb-woman to a butcher, the butcher to a brewer, and the brewer to his wife, who made a present of me to a nonconformist preacher. After this manner I made my way merrily through the world ; for, as I told you before, we shillings love nothing so much as travelling. I sometimes fetched in a shoulder of mutton, sometimes a play-book, and often had the satisfaction to treat a Templar at a twelvepenny ordinary, or carry him, with three friends, to Westminster...
Page 59 - Love his golden shafts imploys, here lights His constant Lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels; not in the bought smile...