The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The TatlerE. Sargeant, and M. & W. Ward; and Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston., 1809 |
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... ! we wanted you at cards after dinner ; but you are much better em- ployed . I have heard indeed that you are an ex- cellent scholar . But at the same time , is it not a little unkind to rob the ladies , who like you No. 215 . 31 TATLER .
... ! we wanted you at cards after dinner ; but you are much better em- ployed . I have heard indeed that you are an ex- cellent scholar . But at the same time , is it not a little unkind to rob the ladies , who like you No. 215 . 31 TATLER .
Strana 46
... heard the voices of two or three persons who seemed very earnest in discourse . My curiosity was raised when I heard the names of Alexander the Great and Ar- taxerxes ; and as their talk seemed to run on an- cient heroes , I concluded ...
... heard the voices of two or three persons who seemed very earnest in discourse . My curiosity was raised when I heard the names of Alexander the Great and Ar- taxerxes ; and as their talk seemed to run on an- cient heroes , I concluded ...
Strana 61
... heard him speak as other people did , or talk in a manner that any of his family could understand him . He used , however , to pass away his time very inno- cently in conversation with several members of that learned body ; for which ...
... heard him speak as other people did , or talk in a manner that any of his family could understand him . He used , however , to pass away his time very inno- cently in conversation with several members of that learned body ; for which ...
Strana 76
... chiefly seen in the style which he makes use of . He is to mention " the universal esteem , or general re- putation of things that were never heard of . If he is a physician or astrologer , he must change 76 No. 224 TATLER .
... chiefly seen in the style which he makes use of . He is to mention " the universal esteem , or general re- putation of things that were never heard of . If he is a physician or astrologer , he must change 76 No. 224 TATLER .
Strana 103
... heard them often in the pulpit from such young sophisters , so I have read them in some of ' those sermons that have made most noise of late . ' The design , it seems , is to avoid the dreadful imputation of pedantry ; to shew us that ...
... heard them often in the pulpit from such young sophisters , so I have read them in some of ' those sermons that have made most noise of late . ' The design , it seems , is to avoid the dreadful imputation of pedantry ; to shew us that ...
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Strana 130 - Assaying by his devilish art to reach The organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions, as he list, phantasms and dreams ; Or if, inspiring venom, he might taint...
Strana 136 - Street they sail'd from, by their Sight and Smell. ' They, as each Torrent drives, with rapid Force From Smithfield, or St. Pulchre's shape their Course, And in huge Confluent join at Snow-Hill Ridge, Fall from the Conduit prone to Holborn- Bridge. Sweepings from Butchers...
Strana 207 - I found that our words froze in the air before they could reach the ears of the person to whom they were spoken. I was soon confirmed in this conjecture, when, upon the increase of the cold, the whole company grew dumb, or rather deaf; for every man was sensible, as we afterwards found, that he spoke as well as ever ; but the sounds no sooner took air, than they were condensed and lost. It was now a miserable spectacle to see us nodding and gaping at one another, every man talking, and no man heard....
Strana 135 - Boxed in a chair the beau impatient sits, While spouts run clattering o'er the roof by fits; And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds; he trembles from within. So when Troy chairmen bore the wooden steed, Pregnant with Greeks, impatient to be freed, (Those bully Greeks, who, as the moderns do, Instead of paying chairmen, run them through), Laocoon struck the outside with his spear, And each imprisoned hero quaked for fear...
Strana 46 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Strana 97 - That from their noyance he no where can rest, But with his clownish hands their tender wings He brusheth oft, and oft doth mar their murmurings.
Strana 215 - Diet, an horse, and thirty pounds a year, Besides th' advantage of his lordship's ear, The credit of the business, and the state, Are things that in a youngster's sense sound great. Little the unexperienc'd wretch does know What slavery he oft must undergo.
Strana 37 - THE WILL OF A VIRTUOSO. I NICHOLAS G-IMCRACK, being in sound health of mind, but in great weakness of body, do by this my last will and testament, bestow my worldly goods and chattels in manner following : Imprimis, To my dear wife, One box of butterflies, One drawer of shells, A female skeleton, A dried cockatrice. Item, To my daughter Elizabeth, My receipt for preserving dead caterpillars.
Strana 102 - ... peace, which I believe would save the lives of many brave words as well as men. The war has introduce•d abundance of polysyllables, which will never be able to live many more campaigns, Speculations...
Strana 188 - I shall only repeat two adventures, as being very extraordinary, and neither of them having ever happened to me above once in my life. The first was, my being in a poet's pocket, who was so taken with the brightness and novelty of my appearance, that it gave occasion to the finest burlesque poem in the British language, entitled from me,