The Tatler, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1822 |
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Pagina xiv
... seem a trifling labour ; but the neglect of it is the source of much of the obscurity and confusion which is found in bad editions of good authors . Translations are annexed to all the mottos , and some of them are translated anew ; it ...
... seem a trifling labour ; but the neglect of it is the source of much of the obscurity and confusion which is found in bad editions of good authors . Translations are annexed to all the mottos , and some of them are translated anew ; it ...
Pagina xxii
... seem justly entitled from the import- ance of the task they undertook , and the manner in which they executed what has seldom been at- tempted but with a repulsive and unaccommodating sternness . The more serious duties of religion had ...
... seem justly entitled from the import- ance of the task they undertook , and the manner in which they executed what has seldom been at- tempted but with a repulsive and unaccommodating sternness . The more serious duties of religion had ...
Pagina xli
... seems frequently out of place ; for who can survey with gaiety of humour the ruins of beauty and innocence ; the charms of feature lost in the fiend - like distortions of disappointed avarice or successful fraud ? Still there are ...
... seems frequently out of place ; for who can survey with gaiety of humour the ruins of beauty and innocence ; the charms of feature lost in the fiend - like distortions of disappointed avarice or successful fraud ? Still there are ...
Pagina xlvii
... seem deficient in powers of argument : but his address has much of that honest zeal and affection which comes from the heart . It has been often re- printed and circulated among the middling class of readers , but in his own time ...
... seem deficient in powers of argument : but his address has much of that honest zeal and affection which comes from the heart . It has been often re- printed and circulated among the middling class of readers , but in his own time ...
Pagina lvi
... seems now given up , when the morals of the age should be reformed by what they called a well - regulated theatre . ' In Dr. Burney's History of Music ( Vol . iv . p . 225 , et seqq . ) are some valuable strictures on those papers in ...
... seems now given up , when the morals of the age should be reformed by what they called a well - regulated theatre . ' In Dr. Burney's History of Music ( Vol . iv . p . 225 , et seqq . ) are some valuable strictures on those papers in ...
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Pagina 312 - 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.
Pagina 311 - ... 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.
Pagina 311 - 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 any thing 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.
Pagina 310 - 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, 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.
Pagina xxiii - 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.
Pagina 375 - 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...
Pagina iii - The general purpose of this Paper is to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and affectation, and to recommend a general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour.
Pagina 311 - But he knew that such indiscriminate prodigality was, to use his own admirable language, "from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was, and is, to hold, as it were, the mirror up to Nature.
Pagina xxx - I must confess I am amazed that the press should be only made use of in this way by news-writers, and the zealots of parties; as if it were not more advantageous to mankind, to be instructed in wisdom and virtue, than in politics ; and to be made good fathers, husbands, and sons, than counsellors and statesmen.
Pagina 30 - Polly, till then obscure, became all at once the favourite of the town; her pictures were engraved, and sold in great numbers; her life written, books of letters and verses to her published, and pamphlets made even of her sayings and jests. Furthermore, it drove out of England, for that season, the Italian opera, which had carried all before it for ten years.