The Tatler; corrected from the originals, with a preface, historical and biographical, by A. Chalmers, Volume 4Alexander Chalmers 1817 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 33
Page 10
... virtue . In a word , the blessings were often like good fruits planted in a bad soil , that by degrees fall off from their natural relish , into tastes altogether insipid or unwholesome : and the calamities , like harsh fruits ...
... virtue . In a word , the blessings were often like good fruits planted in a bad soil , that by degrees fall off from their natural relish , into tastes altogether insipid or unwholesome : and the calamities , like harsh fruits ...
Page 12
... virtue . For this reason , the virtue which we gather from a fable , or an allegory , is like the health we get by hunting ; as we are engaged in an agreeable pursuit that draws us on with pleasure , and makes us insensible of the ...
... virtue . For this reason , the virtue which we gather from a fable , or an allegory , is like the health we get by hunting ; as we are engaged in an agreeable pursuit that draws us on with pleasure , and makes us insensible of the ...
Page 22
... virtue , but also rewards it . It abates the fire of a free and generous love , and imbitters all the pleasures of a social life . " The young lady spoke all this with such an air of resentment , as discovered how nearly she was ...
... virtue , but also rewards it . It abates the fire of a free and generous love , and imbitters all the pleasures of a social life . " The young lady spoke all this with such an air of resentment , as discovered how nearly she was ...
Page 40
... - joicing in the behaviour of his son , is very finely contrived by Homer , as an incentive to virtue , and made use of by none that I know besides himself . The description of Ajax , which follows , and his 40 NO 152 . TATLER .
... - joicing in the behaviour of his son , is very finely contrived by Homer , as an incentive to virtue , and made use of by none that I know besides himself . The description of Ajax , which follows , and his 40 NO 152 . TATLER .
Page 50
... virtues of the deceased , and to keep alive in their thoughts the sense of the soul's immortality . In a word , we may say in defence of the severe opinions relating to the shades of unburied persons , what hath been said by some of our ...
... virtues of the deceased , and to keep alive in their thoughts the sense of the soul's immortality . In a word , we may say in defence of the severe opinions relating to the shades of unburied persons , what hath been said by some of our ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acquaintance actions admiration agreeable Apartment appear beauty behaviour Bickerstaff Bouchain Cælia cerned character Coffee-house consider conversation dæmon death delight desire discourse endeavour entertain epistle Erasistratus esteem eyes fancy father favour fortune gentleman give Great-Britain Hanno the Carthaginian happy hath heart honour humour husband imagination impertinent inns of court ISAAC BICKERSTAFF June kind king of Sweden lady learned letter live look lovers mankind manner marriage merit mind nature neral never observe occasion Othello OVID Palamede pass passion persons Philander play pleased pleasure poet present proper Pyrrha racter reason received ridiculous Roman Censors sense Sheer-lane soul speak spirit Stratonice TATLER tell temper Terentia thing thou thought THURSDAY tion told town tural turn upholsterer vanity VIRG virtue wherein whole wife woman write young
Popular passages
Page 26 - Her husband the relater she preferr'd Before the angel, and of him to ask Chose rather; he, she knew, would intermix Grateful digressions, and solve high dispute With conjugal caresses: from his lip Not words alone pleased her.
Page 221 - Full of crusadoes : and, but my noble Moor Is true of mind and made of no such baseness As jealous creatures are, it were enough To put him to ill thinking. Emil. Is he not jealous? Des. Who, he ? I think the sun where he was born Drew all such humours from him.
Page 12 - READING is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and; invigorated; by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
Page 222 - O now, for ever, Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war...
Page 222 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
Page 98 - YESTERDAY came hither about two hours before the company generally make their appearance, with a design to read over all the newspapers ; but upon my sitting down I was accosted by Ned Softly, who saw me from a corner in the other end of the room, where I found he had been writing something.
Page 8 - 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.
Page 190 - I say, when we let our thoughts wander from such noble objects, and consider the havoc which is made among the tender and the innocent, pity enters with an unmixed softness, and possesses all our souls at once. Here (were there words to express such sentiments with proper tenderness) I should record the beauty, innocence, and untimely death, of the first object my eyes ever beheld with love.
Page 101 - assured me, he would rather have written that Ah ! than to have been the author of the JEneid. He inded objected, that I made Mira's pen like a quill in one of the lines, and like a dart in the other. But as to that " " Oh ! as to that," says I, " it is but supposing Cupid to be like a porcupine, and his quills and darts will be the same thing.
Page 101 - Pray how do you like that ah ! Doth it not make a pretty figure in that place ? Ah ! — it looks as if I felt the dart, and cried out at being pricked with it. " For, ah ! it wounds me like his dart.