The British Essayists: TatlerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... enemy had formed a design to surprise two battalions of the allies which lay at Alost : but those battalions received advice of their march and retired to Dendermond . Lieutenant General Wood appeared on this occasion at the head of ...
... enemy had formed a design to surprise two battalions of the allies which lay at Alost : but those battalions received advice of their march and retired to Dendermond . Lieutenant General Wood appeared on this occasion at the head of ...
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... enemy having made a detachment from Tournay , of fifteen hundred horse , each trooper carrying a foot soldier behind him , in order to surprize the garrison of Alost ; the allies , upon notice of their march , sent out a strong body of ...
... enemy having made a detachment from Tournay , of fifteen hundred horse , each trooper carrying a foot soldier behind him , in order to surprize the garrison of Alost ; the allies , upon notice of their march , sent out a strong body of ...
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... enemy whom he was carry- ing off . Unnion immediately forgot his wound , rose up , tearing his hair , and then threw himself upon the bleeding carcase , crying , " Ah , Valentine ! was it for me , who have so barbarously used thee ...
... enemy whom he was carry- ing off . Unnion immediately forgot his wound , rose up , tearing his hair , and then threw himself upon the bleeding carcase , crying , " Ah , Valentine ! was it for me , who have so barbarously used thee ...
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... enemy give out , that they shall bring into the field four- teen regiments of horse , and twenty - four battalions . The troops in the service of Portugal will make up 14,000 foot , and 4000 horse . On the day these letters were ...
... enemy give out , that they shall bring into the field four- teen regiments of horse , and twenty - four battalions . The troops in the service of Portugal will make up 14,000 foot , and 4000 horse . On the day these letters were ...
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... enemy in diversion by a new attack . This was so well executed , that the Portugueze in-. fantry. had. time. to. retire. in. good. order. ,. and. re. -. pass. the river . But that brigade , which rescued them , was itself surrounded by the ...
... enemy in diversion by a new attack . This was so well executed , that the Portugueze in-. fantry. had. time. to. retire. in. good. order. ,. and. re. -. pass. the river . But that brigade , which rescued them , was itself surrounded by the ...
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Página 255 - 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.
Página 255 - 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.
Página 255 - ... 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.
Página 310 - 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...
Página 254 - 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 xvi - 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 xlviii - ... 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.
Página 254 - 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.
Página 98 - 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...
Página 255 - 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.