Tatler & GuardianJ.J. Woodward, 1831 - 244 pages |
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... obedient , and most humble servant , ISAAC BICKERSTAFF , VOLUME THE SECOND . TO EDWARD WORTLEY MONTAGUE , ESQ * . SIR , -When I send you this volume , I am | many of their excellences , which I had not ob- rather to make you a request ...
... obedient , and most humble servant , ISAAC BICKERSTAFF , VOLUME THE SECOND . TO EDWARD WORTLEY MONTAGUE , ESQ * . SIR , -When I send you this volume , I am | many of their excellences , which I had not ob- rather to make you a request ...
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... obedient , and most humble servant , RICHARD STEELE . * The duke of Marlborough . VOLUME THE FOURTH . TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES , LORD HALIFAX . From the Hovel at Hamptonwick , April 7 , 1711 . MY LORD , -When I first resolved ...
... obedient , and most humble servant , RICHARD STEELE . * The duke of Marlborough . VOLUME THE FOURTH . TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES , LORD HALIFAX . From the Hovel at Hamptonwick , April 7 , 1711 . MY LORD , -When I first resolved ...
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... humble servant , ' D. DISTAFF . ' From the Herald's Office , May 1 , 1709 . St. James's Coffee - house , May 4 . the duke of Marlborough set out for Margate , and embarked for Holland at eight this morning . Yesterday also sir George ...
... humble servant , ' D. DISTAFF . ' From the Herald's Office , May 1 , 1709 . St. James's Coffee - house , May 4 . the duke of Marlborough set out for Margate , and embarked for Holland at eight this morning . Yesterday also sir George ...
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... humble servant ; you heard what passed between those fine gentlemen and me . Pip complained to me , that he had been voweled ; and they tell me I am bit . Friend . It is now some time since several revolutions in the gay world had made ...
... humble servant ; you heard what passed between those fine gentlemen and me . Pip complained to me , that he had been voweled ; and they tell me I am bit . Friend . It is now some time since several revolutions in the gay world had made ...
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... obedient to you , and that your greatest rebels do only serve with a worse grace . I am , Madam , your most obedient and most humble servant , ISAAC BICKERSTAFF . St. James's Coffee - house , May 16 . We hear from Languedoc , that their ...
... obedient to you , and that your greatest rebels do only serve with a worse grace . I am , Madam , your most obedient and most humble servant , ISAAC BICKERSTAFF . St. James's Coffee - house , May 16 . We hear from Languedoc , that their ...
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Popular passages
Page 84 - Nor do not sa.w 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.
Page 84 - 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 156 - 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, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
Page 194 - He would have gone on in this tender way, when the good lady entered, and with an inexpressible sweetness in her countenance, told us, ' she had been searching her closet for something very good, to treat such an old friend as I was.
Page 11 - Now these gentlemen, for the most part, being persons of strong zeal and weak intellects, it is both a charitable and necessary work to offer something, whereby such worthy and well-affected members of the commonwealth may be instructed, after their reading, what to think ; which shall be the end and purpose of this my paper...
Page 195 - Fables: but he frankly declared to me his mind, that "he did not delight in that learning, because he did not believe they were true...
Page 195 - I sat with them until it was very late, sometimes in merry, sometimes in serious discourse, with this particular pleasure, which gives the only true relish to all conversation, a sense that every one of us liked each other. I went home, considering the different conditions of a married life and that of a bachelor ; and I must confess it struck me with a secret concern, to reflect, that whenever I go off I shall leave no traces behind me. In this pensive mood I...
Page 84 - O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwigpated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise; I would have such a fellow whipp'd for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: pray you, avoid it.
Page 194 - Bickerstaff, do not believe a word of what he tells you, I shall still live to have you for my second, as I have often promised you, unless he takes more care of himself than he has done since his coming to town. You must know, he tells me that he finds London is a much more healthy place than the country ; for he sees several of his old acquaintance and school-fellows are here young fellows with fair fullbottomed periwigs. I could scarce keep him this morning from going out open-breasted.
Page 195 - We were pleasing ourselves with this fantastical preferment of the young lady, when on a sudden we were alarmed with the noise of a drum, and immediately entered my little godson to give me a point of war. 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...