The British Essayists: TatlerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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Pàgina vi
... Conversation described as Instruments of Music ............... 154 Virgil's Allegory and Ideas of a future State .... 155 Character of the Upholsterer - A great Politician 156 Visit of Telemachus to the other World ..... ...... 157 ...
... Conversation described as Instruments of Music ............... 154 Virgil's Allegory and Ideas of a future State .... 155 Character of the Upholsterer - A great Politician 156 Visit of Telemachus to the other World ..... ...... 157 ...
Pàgina 25
... conversation . It ap- peared , that each of them divided their hours in matters of equal moment and importance to them- selves and to the public . They rose at the same hour : while the old man was playing with his cat , the young one ...
... conversation . It ap- peared , that each of them divided their hours in matters of equal moment and importance to them- selves and to the public . They rose at the same hour : while the old man was playing with his cat , the young one ...
Pàgina 43
... conversation into the violence and rage of party disputes , I listened to him with great pleasure . Our discourse chanced to be upon the subject of death , which he treated with such a strength of reason , and greatness of soul , that ...
... conversation into the violence and rage of party disputes , I listened to him with great pleasure . Our discourse chanced to be upon the subject of death , which he treated with such a strength of reason , and greatness of soul , that ...
Pàgina 98
... conversation or behaviour ; or if he swerves from right reason , however common his kind of madness may be , we shall not excuse him for its being epidemical ; it being our present design to clap up all such as have the marks of madness ...
... conversation or behaviour ; or if he swerves from right reason , however common his kind of madness may be , we shall not excuse him for its being epidemical ; it being our present design to clap up all such as have the marks of madness ...
Pàgina 126
... conversations of the youth of this age . He then quoted an ingenious person , who would undertake to know by a man's writings the wine he most de- lighted in ; and on that occasion named a certain satirist , whom he had discovered to be ...
... conversations of the youth of this age . He then quoted an ingenious person , who would undertake to know by a man's writings the wine he most de- lighted in ; and on that occasion named a certain satirist , whom he had discovered to be ...
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Frases i termes més freqüents
acquaintance admired agreeable Anticyra appear Bag-pipe Bass-viol beautiful Bickerstaff called Censor character charms Chimæra Cicero confess Coquette creatures dead death delight desire discourse dress endeavour entertain Esquire eyes favour figure fortune Gascon gentleman give greatest hand happy Harpsichord hath heard heart honour human humble humour Hungary water husband imagination impertinent ISAAC BICKERSTAFF Jupiter kind lady learned letter likewise live look lover mankind manner marriage mind Muscovy nation nature never night observe occasion OVID particular passed passion persons petitioner petticoat pleased pleasure poet present proper racter ragoûts reader reason received Roman Censors Rome says sense Sheer-lane soul spirit stood Styx Tatler tell Terentia thing thought tion told took town TUESDAY turn Ulysses upholsterer VIRG Virgil virtue walk whole wife woman words write young
Passatges populars
Pàgina 41 - But neither breath of Morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds ; nor rising sun On this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew ; nor fragrance, after showers ; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent Night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet.
Pàgina 41 - With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike : Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Pàgina viii - Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she — O God ! a beast that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer — married with mine uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules...
Pàgina viii - Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth ! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman! A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she follow'd my poor father's body...
Pàgina 56 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Pàgina vii - So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Pàgina 42 - Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Pàgina 24 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Pàgina 192 - Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The source of evil one, and one of good ; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills; To most, he mingles both : the wretch decreed To taste the bad, unmix'd, is cursed indeed; Pursued by wrongs, by meagre famine driven, He wanders, outcast both of earth and heaven.
Pàgina 360 - Papa could not hear me, and would play with me no more, for they were going to put him under ground, whence he could never come to us again.