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... learned , almost all attention to use- ful and elegant pursuits ; and that the com- mencement of taste , and the diffusion of know- ledge , may be dated from the well - timed efforts of Steele and Addison , efforts which illuminated but ...
... learned , almost all attention to use- ful and elegant pursuits ; and that the com- mencement of taste , and the diffusion of know- ledge , may be dated from the well - timed efforts of Steele and Addison , efforts which illuminated but ...
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... learned advocate for the episcopacy of the church , and the liberty of the people , Mr. Hoadly . I mentioned this only to defend myself against the imputation of being moved rather by party than opinion ; and I think it is apparent , I ...
... learned advocate for the episcopacy of the church , and the liberty of the people , Mr. Hoadly . I mentioned this only to defend myself against the imputation of being moved rather by party than opinion ; and I think it is apparent , I ...
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... learned table ; and that a good observer cannot speak with even Kidney , * at St. Jmaes's without clean linen ; I say , these con- siderations will , I hope , make all persons willing to comply with my humble request ( when my gratis ...
... learned table ; and that a good observer cannot speak with even Kidney , * at St. Jmaes's without clean linen ; I say , these con- siderations will , I hope , make all persons willing to comply with my humble request ( when my gratis ...
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... learned now dispute only about the truth of the game . But however the company is altered , all have shown a great respect for Mr. Betterton : and the very gaming part of this house have been so touched with a sense of the uncertainty ...
... learned now dispute only about the truth of the game . But however the company is altered , all have shown a great respect for Mr. Betterton : and the very gaming part of this house have been so touched with a sense of the uncertainty ...
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James Ferguson. any will can appear , until it is explained by the learned , I have disposed of my real and personal estate : but , as I am an adept , I have by birth an equal right to give also an indefeasible title to my endowments and ...
James Ferguson. any will can appear , until it is explained by the learned , I have disposed of my real and personal estate : but , as I am an adept , I have by birth an equal right to give also an indefeasible title to my endowments and ...
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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.