The British Essayists: TatlerC. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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acquaintance action Æsop agreeable answered APARTMENT appeared army AUGUST AUGUST 17 AUGUST 26 beauty behaviour Bickerstaff called charms Demosthenes desire discourse duke duke of Marlborough Duumvir Elmira enemy Esquire esteem eyes fame farrago libelli following letter fortune gentleman give Greenhat happy heard heart hero honour humble servant humour ISAAC BICKERSTAFF JAMES'S COFFEE-HOUSE Julius Cæsar lady lately laugh learned live look lover mankind manner Marshal Boufflers Marshal Villars merit mind motley paper seizes nature never night noble observed occasion orator Osmyn Pacolet panegyric passion persons pleased pleasure present pretend prince proper Quicquid agunt homines racter reason received ribaldry seems sense SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER 16 Sir Tristram speak Stentor Tatler tell thing thought tion told town unhappy virtue WHITE'S CHOCOLATE-HOUSE whole wife WILL'S COFFEE-HOUSE woman word write young
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Strana 320 - up my wounds! Have mercy, Jesu—Soft ! I did but dream. Oh! coward conscience! how dost thou afflict me ! The lights burn blue! Is it not dead midnight ? Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh : What do I fear? myself!' &c. A scene written with so great strength of imagination indisposed me
Strana 390 - best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanc'd, and like folly shows. Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made Occasionally. And, to consummate all, Greatness of mind, and nobleness, their seat Build in her loveliest, and create an awe About her as a guard angelic placed.
Strana 6 - To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid, Inspir'd repuls'd 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,
Strana 366 - the warm desires after virtue, so natural to uncorrupted youth : I do not think my sister so to seek, Or so unprincipled in Virtue's book, And the sweet peace that goodness bosoms ever, As that the single want of light and noise Not
Strana 357 - behaviour full of modesty, and her raiment as white as snow. The other had a great deal of health and floridness in her countenance, which she had helped with an artificial white and red, and endeavoured to appear more graceful than ordinary in her mien, by a mixture of affectation in all
Strana 349 - that the little girl who led me in this morning was in her way a better scholar than he. Betty,' says she,' deals chiefly in fairies and sprights; and sometimes in a winter-night will terrify the maids with
Strana 163 - who could not be intelligent hearers of his discourse, were there not explanation as well as grace in his action. This art of his is used with the most exact and honest skill: he never attempts your passions till he has convinced your reason. All the
Strana 269 - The ushers seemed at a loss for a twelfth man, when, methought, to my great joy and surprise, I heard some at the lower end of the table mention Isaac Bickerstaff ; but those of the upper end received it with disdain, and said, ' if they must have a British worthy, they would have Robin Hood.
Strana 104 - to me, superscribed him with this description out of Suckling : ' I am a man of war and might, And know thus much, that I can fight, Whether I am i' th' wrong or right, Devoutly. No woman under heaven I fear, !New oaths I can exactly swear; And forty healths my brains will bear,
Strana 349 - accounts, till they are afraid to go Up to bed.' I sat with them till it was very late, sometimes in merry, sometimes in serious, discourse, with this particular pleasure, which gives the only true relish * See