The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical and Critical, Volumes 5-6T. and J. Allman, 1823 - English essays |
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... play but one winter under the window of a lady , that was a great fortune , but more cruel than ordinary . One would think they hoped to conquer their mistresses ' hearts as people tame hawks and eagles , by keeping them awake , or ...
... play but one winter under the window of a lady , that was a great fortune , but more cruel than ordinary . One would think they hoped to conquer their mistresses ' hearts as people tame hawks and eagles , by keeping them awake , or ...
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... plays , where a young woman applies herself to a sick person in the habit of a quack , and speaks to her patient , who was something scandalized at the youth of his phy- sician , to the following purpose - I began to prac- tise in the ...
... plays , where a young woman applies herself to a sick person in the habit of a quack , and speaks to her patient , who was something scandalized at the youth of his phy- sician , to the following purpose - I began to prac- tise in the ...
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... play very well , no Body better . He has promis't me upon Rep , to leave off play ; but you know ' tis a weakness he's too apt to give into , tho ' he has as much wit as any man , no Body more . He has lain incog ever since The Mobb's ...
... play very well , no Body better . He has promis't me upon Rep , to leave off play ; but you know ' tis a weakness he's too apt to give into , tho ' he has as much wit as any man , no Body more . He has lain incog ever since The Mobb's ...
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... as the lady in the play complains , something s robust in perfect health , that it is with her a point breeding and delicacy to appear in public with sickly air . But the natural gaiety and spirit which 162 N ° 248 TATLER .
... as the lady in the play complains , something s robust in perfect health , that it is with her a point breeding and delicacy to appear in public with sickly air . But the natural gaiety and spirit which 162 N ° 248 TATLER .
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... play - book , and often had the satisfaction to treat a templar at the twelvepenny ordinary , to carry him with three friends to West- minster - hall . ' In the midst of this pleasant progress which I made from place to place , I was ...
... play - book , and often had the satisfaction to treat a templar at the twelvepenny ordinary , to carry him with three friends to West- minster - hall . ' In the midst of this pleasant progress which I made from place to place , I was ...
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Page 196 - Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Page 7 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Page 31 - 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 Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 13 - Temple, a man of great probity, wit, and understanding ; but he has chosen his place of residence rather to obey the direction of an old humoursome father, than in pursuit of his own inclinations. He was placed there to study the laws of the land, and is the most learned of any of the house in those of the stage.
Page 214 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Page 118 - I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey ; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable.
Page 10 - Tree, and in the theatres both of Drury Lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stock-jobbers at Jonathan's.
Page 110 - Assaying by his devilish art to reach the organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions, as he list, phantasms and dreams ; Or if, inspiring venom, he might taint The animal spirits, that from pure blood arise Like gentle breaths from rivers pure...
Page 118 - WHEN I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people...
Page 186 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.