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... Tatler's Guardian An- gel , Pacolet -- Continental Intelligence STEELE 14. Character of Verus - Earl of Essex and Alchymist - Dumb Fortune - teller and Widow - To Correspondents .... 15. Story of Pacolet - Gamesters - Pleasure 16 ...
... Tatler's Guardian An- gel , Pacolet -- Continental Intelligence STEELE 14. Character of Verus - Earl of Essex and Alchymist - Dumb Fortune - teller and Widow - To Correspondents .... 15. Story of Pacolet - Gamesters - Pleasure 16 ...
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Alexander Chalmers. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE ΤΟ THE TATLER , 1803 ; THE commencement of the Eighteenth Cen- tury was distinguished by the appearance of a class of writers so eminent for wit , elegance , and taste , that the ...
Alexander Chalmers. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE ΤΟ THE TATLER , 1803 ; THE commencement of the Eighteenth Cen- tury was distinguished by the appearance of a class of writers so eminent for wit , elegance , and taste , that the ...
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... , for liveliness of description , and just- ness of observation . Before the TATLER and SPECTATOR , if the writers for the theatre are excepted , Eng- land had no masters of common life . No writers xvi HISTORICAL AND .
... , for liveliness of description , and just- ness of observation . Before the TATLER and SPECTATOR , if the writers for the theatre are excepted , Eng- land had no masters of common life . No writers xvi HISTORICAL AND .
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... TATLER and SPECTATOR had the same tendency they were published at a time when two parties , loud , restless , and violent , each with plausible declarations , and each perhaps without any distinct termination of its views , were agi ...
... TATLER and SPECTATOR had the same tendency they were published at a time when two parties , loud , restless , and violent , each with plausible declarations , and each perhaps without any distinct termination of its views , were agi ...
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... TATLER , No. 117 ; if so , she was of a Kentish family . Yet this paper was written by ADDISON . Of the incident supposed to relate to Mrs. STEELE , Dr. BEATTIE says , One of the finest mo- ral tales I ever read is an account in the TATLER ...
... TATLER , No. 117 ; if so , she was of a Kentish family . Yet this paper was written by ADDISON . Of the incident supposed to relate to Mrs. STEELE , Dr. BEATTIE says , One of the finest mo- ral tales I ever read is an account in the TATLER ...
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Page 258 - 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...
Page v - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven to inhabit among Men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses.
Page 258 - 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 vi - 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 258 - 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; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: Pray you, avoid it.
Page 258 - And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them; for there be of them thatU will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity.
Page 93 - The ships unmoved the boist'rous winds defy, While rattling chariots o'er the ocean fly. The vast leviathan wants room to play, And spout his waters in the face of day; The starving wolves along the main sea prowl, And to the moon in icy valleys howl. For many a shining league the level main Here spreads itself into a glassy plain; There solid billows of enormous size, Alps of green ice, in wild disorder rise.
Page 258 - ... 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 lxxiii - The general Purpose of the whole has been to recommend Truth, Innocence, Honour, and Virtue, as the chief Ornaments of Life; but I considered, that Severity of Manners was absolutely necessary to him who would censure others, and for that Reason, and that only, chose to talk in a Mask.
Page 258 - 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. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus...