The Tatler; Or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Volume 4C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, 1774 - English essays |
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Page 250
... observe , that the honourable Author feems by his quotations to have been well verfed in the ancient Poets , which perhaps raifed his fancy above the ordinary pitch of hiftorians , and very much contributed to the embellishment of his ...
... observe , that the honourable Author feems by his quotations to have been well verfed in the ancient Poets , which perhaps raifed his fancy above the ordinary pitch of hiftorians , and very much contributed to the embellishment of his ...
Page 263
... observed in the prepofitions . The conjunc- tions were only Hem ! and Ha ! and the interjections brought under the three heads of Sighing , Sobbing , and Groaning . " 9 There was at the end of the Grammar a little nomen- clature ...
... observed in the prepofitions . The conjunc- tions were only Hem ! and Ha ! and the interjections brought under the three heads of Sighing , Sobbing , and Groaning . " 9 There was at the end of the Grammar a little nomen- clature ...
Page 265
... observed " the table - cloth being not fo fine as we could have " wifhed , " was North British cloth . But the worst of " it was , we were disturbed all dinner - time by the noise " of the children , who were playing in the paved court ...
... observed " the table - cloth being not fo fine as we could have " wifhed , " was North British cloth . But the worst of " it was , we were disturbed all dinner - time by the noise " of the children , who were playing in the paved court ...
Page 320
... observed into an agreeable view ; to enquire into the feeds of vanity and affectation , to lay before the readers the emp- tinefs of ambition : In a word , to trace human life through all its mazes and recesses , and fhew much shorter ...
... observed into an agreeable view ; to enquire into the feeds of vanity and affectation , to lay before the readers the emp- tinefs of ambition : In a word , to trace human life through all its mazes and recesses , and fhew much shorter ...
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Page 302 - Besides my innumerable sins, I confess before thee, that I am debtor to thee for the gracious talent of thy gifts and graces, which I have neither put into a napkin, nor put it, as I ought, to exchangers, where it might have made best profit, but misspent it in things for which I was least fit : so I may truly say, my soul hath been a stranger in the course of my pilgrimage. Be merciful unto me, O Lord, for my Saviour's sake, and receive me into thy bosom, or guide me in thy ways.
Page 186 - 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 sail'd from, by their Sight and Smell.
Page 228 - ... where he dined upon me, and drank the king's health. When I came again into the world, I found that I had been happier in my retirement than I thought, having probably by that means escaped wearing a monstrous pair of breeches.
Page 150 - I think on those numberless vermin that feed upon this paper, and find their sustenance out of it: I mean the small wits and scribblers, that every day turn a penny by nibbling at my Lucubrations.
Page 110 - The gentleman of the house told me, if I delighted in flowers, it would be worth my while ; for that he believed he could show me such a blow of tulips as was not to be matched in the whole country. I accepted the offer, and immediately found that they had been talking in terms of gardening, and that the kings and generals they had mentioned were only so many tulips, to which the gardeners, according to their usual custom, had given such high titles and appellations of honour. I was very much...
Page 268 - ... while she was at church, or to say her prayers in a posture that did not become a woman of her quality. The prisoner pleaded inadvertency; and the jury were going to bring it in chance-medley, had not several witnesses been produced against the said Elizabeth Makebate, that she was an old offender, and a woman of a bad reputation.
Page 227 - ... 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...
Page 186 - Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs. Box'd in a chair, the beau impatient sits, While spouts run clattering o'er the roof by fits, And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds ; he trembles from within...
Page 117 - I have made some necessary variations both in the tube, and the fluid it contains. In the first place, I ordered a tube to be cast in a planetary hour, and took care to seal it hermetically, when the Sun was in conjunction with Saturn. I then took the proper precautions about the fluid, which is a compound of two very...