The Tatler, Volume 2George Atherton Aitken |
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... immediately com- menced soldier . Thus equipped for love and honour , our hero seeks distant climes and adventures , and leaves the despairing nymphs of Great Britain to the courtship of beaux and witlings till his return . His exploits ...
... immediately com- menced soldier . Thus equipped for love and honour , our hero seeks distant climes and adventures , and leaves the despairing nymphs of Great Britain to the courtship of beaux and witlings till his return . His exploits ...
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... immediately knew it to be Tom Mirrour , the comical actor . He immediately addressed himself to me , and a figure of a lunatic on the gate of the hospital . He was given to the study of mystical divines . See Dr. King's Works , 1776 , i ...
... immediately knew it to be Tom Mirrour , the comical actor . He immediately addressed himself to me , and a figure of a lunatic on the gate of the hospital . He was given to the study of mystical divines . See Dr. King's Works , 1776 , i ...
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... immediately quitted his natural shape , and talked to me in a very different air and tone from what he had used before ; upon which all that sat near us laughed ; but I saw no distortion in his countenance , or anything that appeared to ...
... immediately quitted his natural shape , and talked to me in a very different air and tone from what he had used before ; upon which all that sat near us laughed ; but I saw no distortion in his countenance , or anything that appeared to ...
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... immediately despatched three general officers to that prince , to treat about a capitulation ; but the Swedes , though they consisted of 15,000 men , were in so great want of provision and ammunition , that they were obliged to ...
... immediately despatched three general officers to that prince , to treat about a capitulation ; but the Swedes , though they consisted of 15,000 men , were in so great want of provision and ammunition , that they were obliged to ...
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... immediately resolved to resign all the invitations of his passion , and the rights of his power , to restore her to her destined husband . With this purpose he commanded her parents and relations , as well as her husband , to attend him ...
... immediately resolved to resign all the invitations of his passion , and the rights of his power , to restore her to her destined husband . With this purpose he commanded her parents and relations , as well as her husband , to attend him ...
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Page 380 - 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! A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she followed my poor father's body Like Niobe, all tears - why she, even she (O God!
Page 380 - Would have mourn'd longer, — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married. O most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets, It is not nor it cannot come to good; But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue!
Page 406 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 315 - His mother, between laughing and chiding, would have put him out of the room; but I would not part with him so. I found, upon conversation with him, though he was a little noisy in his mirth, that the child had excellent parts, and was a great master of all the learning on the other side eight years old.
Page 16 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 316 - ... for which reason I found he had very much turned his studies for about a twelvemonth past, into the lives and adventures of Don Bellianis of Greece, Guy of Warwick, the Seven Champions, and other historians of that age. I could not but observe the satisfaction the father took in the forwardness of his son : and that these diversions might turn to some profit, I found the boy had made remarks which might be of service to him during the course of his whole life. He would tell you the...
Page 311 - ... daughters ; upon which, the gentleman, my friend, said, ' Nay ; if Mr. Bickerstaff marries a child of any of his old companions, I hope mine shall have the preference : there is Mrs. Mary is now sixteen, and would make him as fine a widow as the best of them. But I know him too well ; he is so...
Page 170 - The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away...
Page 333 - He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day : But he, that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun ; Himself is his own dungeon.