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Smile , and look pleas ' d , when he shall rage and scold ; Still in your mouth the
healing cordial hold ; One month this sympathetic med ' cine try ' d , He ' ll grow a
lover , you a happy bride . But , dearest niece , keep this grand secret close , Or ...
Smile , and look pleas ' d , when he shall rage and scold ; Still in your mouth the
healing cordial hold ; One month this sympathetic med ' cine try ' d , He ' ll grow a
lover , you a happy bride . But , dearest niece , keep this grand secret close , Or ...
Page 161
... happy man goes home to his lodging full of ten thousand pleasing images : his
brain is dilated , and gives him all the ideas and prospects which it ever lets into
its seat of pleasure . Thus , a kind look from Lindamira revives in his imagination
...
... happy man goes home to his lodging full of ten thousand pleasing images : his
brain is dilated , and gives him all the ideas and prospects which it ever lets into
its seat of pleasure . Thus , a kind look from Lindamira revives in his imagination
...
Page 175
The next to a man of this universal genius is one , who is peculiarly formed for the
service of the ladies , and his merit is chiefly to be of no consequence . I am ,
indeed , a little in doubt , whether he ought not rather to be called a very Happy ...
The next to a man of this universal genius is one , who is peculiarly formed for the
service of the ladies , and his merit is chiefly to be of no consequence . I am ,
indeed , a little in doubt , whether he ought not rather to be called a very Happy ...
Page 293
ponents ; but , as your brother observed of Socrates , I drew them into my
conclusion , from their own concessions ; thus : “ In marriage are two happy
things allow ' d , A wife in wedding sheets , and in a shroud . How can a marriage
state then ...
ponents ; but , as your brother observed of Socrates , I drew them into my
conclusion , from their own concessions ; thus : “ In marriage are two happy
things allow ' d , A wife in wedding sheets , and in a shroud . How can a marriage
state then ...
Page 296
... is new and surprising ; and according to this method , the troops are disposed
in King ' s - headcourt and Red - lion - market : nor is the conduct of these leaders
less conspicuous in their choice of the ground or field of battle . Happy was it ...
... is new and surprising ; and according to this method , the troops are disposed
in King ' s - headcourt and Red - lion - market : nor is the conduct of these leaders
less conspicuous in their choice of the ground or field of battle . Happy was it ...
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Page 255 - And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question}: of the play be then to be considered : that's villainous ; and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 255 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Page 255 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently : for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say,- whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
Page 311 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Page 254 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Page xvi - To teach the minuter decencies and inferior duties, to regulate the practice of daily conversation, to correct those depravities which are rather ridiculous than criminal, and remove those grievances which, if they produce no lasting calamities, impress hourly vexation...
Page xlviii - Lastly, his writings have set all our wits and men of- letters upon a new way of thinking, of which they had little or no notion before ; and though we cannot yet say that any of them have come up to the beauties of the original, I think we may venture to affirm, that every one of them writes and thinks much more justly than they did some time since.
Page 14 - All accounts of gallantry, pleasure, and entertainment, shall be under the article of White's Chocolatehouse; poetry, under that of Will's Coffee-house; learning, under the title of Grecian; foreign and domestic news you will have from Saint James's Coffee-house ; and what else I have to offer on any other subject shall be dated from my own Apartment.
Page xlvii - It would have been a jest, some time since, for a man to have asserted that any thing witty could be said in praise of a married state.; or that devotion and virtue were any way necessary to the character of a fine gentleman.
Page 255 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end both at the first, and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
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| Title | The British Essayists The British Essayists, James Ferguson (Advocate) |
| Contributor | James Ferguson (Advocate) |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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