The British Essayists: The TatlerJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son, W. J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, J. Sewell, R. Faulder, G. and W. Nicol, T. Payne, G. and J. Robinson, W. Lowndes, G. Wilkie, J. Mathews, P. McQueen, Ogilvy and Son, J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, Darton and Harvey, J. Nunn, Lackington and Company, D. Walker, Clarke and Son, G. Kearsley, C. Law, J. White, Longman and Rees, Cadell, Jun. and Davies, J. Barker, T. Kay, Wynne and Company, Pote and Company, Carpenter and Company, W. Miller, Murray and Highley, S. Bagster, T. Hurst, T. Boosey, R. Pheney, W. Baynes, J. Harding, R. H. Evans, J. Mawman; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1803 |
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... Majesty , appointing him go- vernor of the said company during his life , and to his executors , administrators , or assigns , for the space of three years afterwards . He was also chosen one of the representatives of Boroughbrigg , in ...
... Majesty , appointing him go- vernor of the said company during his life , and to his executors , administrators , or assigns , for the space of three years afterwards . He was also chosen one of the representatives of Boroughbrigg , in ...
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... Majesty has very much disquieted the Court of Rome . Our last ad- vices from Germany inform us , that the Minister of Hanover has urged the Council at Ratisbonne to exert themselves in behalf of the common cause , and taken the liberty ...
... Majesty has very much disquieted the Court of Rome . Our last ad- vices from Germany inform us , that the Minister of Hanover has urged the Council at Ratisbonne to exert themselves in behalf of the common cause , and taken the liberty ...
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... Majesty has expressed great satisfaction in their High Mightinesses having communicated to him the whole that has passed in the affair of a peace . Though there have been practices used by the agents of France , in all the Courts of ...
... Majesty has expressed great satisfaction in their High Mightinesses having communicated to him the whole that has passed in the affair of a peace . Though there have been practices used by the agents of France , in all the Courts of ...
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... Majesty , except a very few , who were taken suddenly near the village of Hockstet in Germany ; and some more , who were straitened for lodging at a place called Ramilies , and died on the road to Ghent and Bruges . There are also other ...
... Majesty , except a very few , who were taken suddenly near the village of Hockstet in Germany ; and some more , who were straitened for lodging at a place called Ramilies , and died on the road to Ghent and Bruges . There are also other ...
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... Majesty's arms , under the command of the Duke of Marlborough , the last year in Flan- ders . " Here you are to understand , that the au- thor , finding the poets would not take his advice , troubles himself no more about them ; but has ...
... Majesty's arms , under the command of the Duke of Marlborough , the last year in Flan- ders . " Here you are to understand , that the au- thor , finding the poets would not take his advice , troubles himself no more about them ; but has ...
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acted affairs appear April April 18 army arrived behaviour called character Chloe Court desire discourse dream dress Duke of Anjou Duke of Marlborough enemy entertainment Esquire excellent eyes farrago libelli favour France French gentleman Ghent give Hague hear honour hope humour instant ISAAC BICKERSTAFF James's Coffee-house John Vanbrugh June King King of Denmark lady late letters live Lord Madam Majesty manner marshal Villars matter Minister Monsieur morning motley paper seizes nature never obliged observed occasion Olivenza passion peace persons play pleasure poet present pretend Pretty Fellow Prince Eugene Quicquid agunt bomines racter Rake received RICHARD STEELE Rouille sense sent shew spirit STEELE taken TATLER theme thing thought tion Tom D'Urfey Torcy Tournay town treaty troops wherein White's Chocolate-house whole Will's Coffee-house writ write young
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Página 208 - ... 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 which one must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Página 208 - 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.
Página 6 - All accounts of gallantry, pleasure, and entertainment, shall be under the article of White's Chocolate-house ; poetry, under that of Will's Coffee-house ; learning, under the title of Grecian ; foreign and domestic news, you will have from St. James's Coffee-house ; and what else I shall on any other subject offer, shall be dated from my own apartment.
Página 208 - 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.
Página xi - 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...
Página 7 - Dryden frequented it ; where you used to see songs, epigrams, and satires, in the hands of every man you met, you have now only a pack of cards ; and instead of the cavils about the turn of the expression, the elegance of the style, and the like, the learned now dispute only about the truth of the game.
Página 208 - O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated 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: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: Pray you, avoid it.
Página 209 - 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.
Página 117 - Buckley * has shed as much blood as the former ; but I cannot forbear saying (and I hope it will not look like envy) that we regard our brother Buckley as a kind of Drawcansir, who spares neither friend nor foe ; but generally kills as many of his own side as the enemy's.
Página 194 - Madonella, a lady who had writ a fine book concerning the recluse life, and was the projectrix of the foundation She approaches into the hall ; and Rake, knowing the dignity of his own mien and aspect, goes deputy from his company. She begins, "Sir, I am obliged to follow the servant, who was sent out to know what affair could make strangers press upon a solitude which we, who are to inhabit this place, have devoted to heaven and our own thoughts ?"