The Tatler, Volume 2George Atherton Aitken |
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... virtue . For we shall never give accounts to the world of anything , but what the lives and endeavours of the persons ( of whom we treat ) make the basis of their fame and reputation . For this reason it is to be hoped , that our ...
... virtue . For we shall never give accounts to the world of anything , but what the lives and endeavours of the persons ( of whom we treat ) make the basis of their fame and reputation . For this reason it is to be hoped , that our ...
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... virtue is to be regarded with respect to our different ways of life . The woman's province is to be careful in her economy , and chaste in her affection : the man's to be active in the improvement of his fortune , and ready to undertake ...
... virtue is to be regarded with respect to our different ways of life . The woman's province is to be careful in her economy , and chaste in her affection : the man's to be active in the improvement of his fortune , and ready to undertake ...
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... virtue , and hides it from the world , when he has at the same time a mind to exert him- self . A French author says very justly , that modesty is to the other virtues in a man , what shade in a picture is to the parts of the thing ...
... virtue , and hides it from the world , when he has at the same time a mind to exert him- self . A French author says very justly , that modesty is to the other virtues in a man , what shade in a picture is to the parts of the thing ...
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... virtue ; for it is a voluntary quality , and the effect of good sense . He is naturally bold and enterprising ; but so justly discreet , that he never acts or speaks anything , but those who behold him know he has forborn much more than ...
... virtue ; for it is a voluntary quality , and the effect of good sense . He is naturally bold and enterprising ; but so justly discreet , that he never acts or speaks anything , but those who behold him know he has forborn much more than ...
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... virtue and religion appear with new ornaments , and in the natural apparel of simplicity and beauty . In ordinary conversations , a sweet conformity of manners , and a humility which heightened all the complacencies of good breeding and ...
... virtue and religion appear with new ornaments , and in the natural apparel of simplicity and beauty . In ordinary conversations , a sweet conformity of manners , and a humility which heightened all the complacencies of good breeding and ...
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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.