The British Essayists: TatlerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 - English essays |
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... immediately concern the good of my native country . I must therefore contradict what has been so assuredly reported by the news - writers of England , That France is in the most deplorable condition , and that their people die in great ...
... immediately concern the good of my native country . I must therefore contradict what has been so assuredly reported by the news - writers of England , That France is in the most deplorable condition , and that their people die in great ...
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... immediately to the palace of Cardinal Paulucci , Minister of State to his Holiness , and de- manded , in the name of his Imperial Majesty , that King Charles should forthwith be acknowledged King of Spain , by a solemn act of the ...
... immediately to the palace of Cardinal Paulucci , Minister of State to his Holiness , and de- manded , in the name of his Imperial Majesty , that King Charles should forthwith be acknowledged King of Spain , by a solemn act of the ...
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... immediately ran back , and in the midst of a thick fire of the French took the corporal upon his back , and brought him through all that danger as far as the Abbey of 66 Salsine , where a cannon ball took off his N ° 5 . 43 TATLER .
... immediately ran back , and in the midst of a thick fire of the French took the corporal upon his back , and brought him through all that danger as far as the Abbey of 66 Salsine , where a cannon ball took off his N ° 5 . 43 TATLER .
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... immediately forgot his wound , rose up , tearing his hair , and then threw himself upon the bleeding carcase , crying , Ah , Valentine ! was it for me , who have so barbarously used thee , that thou hast died ? I will not live after ...
... immediately forgot his wound , rose up , tearing his hair , and then threw himself upon the bleeding carcase , crying , Ah , Valentine ! was it for me , who have so barbarously used thee , that thou hast died ? I will not live after ...
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... Immediately the winds grew calm , the waves subsided , and the people stood up , turning their faces upon a magnifi- cent pile in the midst of the island . There we be- The held an hero of a comely and erect aspect , N ° 8 . 67 TATLER .
... Immediately the winds grew calm , the waves subsided , and the people stood up , turning their faces upon a magnifi- cent pile in the midst of the island . There we be- The held an hero of a comely and erect aspect , N ° 8 . 67 TATLER .
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Page 251 - O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 251 - O reform it altogether, 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 villanous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 251 - ... 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 308 - 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...
Page 250 - 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 xiv - 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 xlvi - ... 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 250 - 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.
Page 96 - Or winds begun through hazy skies to blow, At evening a keen eastern breeze arose, And the descending rain unsullied froze. Soon as the silent shades of night withdrew, The ruddy morn...
Page 251 - 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.