The Tatler; Or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Volume 2C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, 1709 - English essays |
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... thought a licence among correct Writers not to be indulged , it is hoped the neceffity of doing it , to give a juft idea of the hero of whom we treat , will plead for liberty we fhall hereafter take , to print Orlando's foliloquies in ...
... thought a licence among correct Writers not to be indulged , it is hoped the neceffity of doing it , to give a juft idea of the hero of whom we treat , will plead for liberty we fhall hereafter take , to print Orlando's foliloquies in ...
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... thought this acting bells and dogs was to be con- fidered under the notion of Wit , Humour , or Satire ? Were it not better , continued he , to have fome parti- cular picture of man laid before your eyes , that might incite your ...
... thought this acting bells and dogs was to be con- fidered under the notion of Wit , Humour , or Satire ? Were it not better , continued he , to have fome parti- cular picture of man laid before your eyes , that might incite your ...
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... thought to be by those who are per- haps unskilled in it , want of fuccefs in our actions is generally owing to want of judgment in what we ought to attempt , or a ruftic Modefty , which will not give us leave to undertake what we ought ...
... thought to be by those who are per- haps unskilled in it , want of fuccefs in our actions is generally owing to want of judgment in what we ought to attempt , or a ruftic Modefty , which will not give us leave to undertake what we ought ...
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... thought betrayed their mutual coldness . This lafted but few months , when they fhewed a difference of opinion in every trifle ; and , as a fign of certain decay of affection , the word " per haps " was introduced in all their discourse ...
... thought betrayed their mutual coldness . This lafted but few months , when they fhewed a difference of opinion in every trifle ; and , as a fign of certain decay of affection , the word " per haps " was introduced in all their discourse ...
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... thought of an happy expedient to give their affairs a new turn . One day he took Elmira afide , and spoke as follows : 66 " My Dear , you fee here the air is fo temperate and " ferene ; the rivulets , the groves , and foil , fo ex ...
... thought of an happy expedient to give their affairs a new turn . One day he took Elmira afide , and spoke as follows : 66 " My Dear , you fee here the air is fo temperate and " ferene ; the rivulets , the groves , and foil , fo ex ...
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Page 17 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
Page 109 - The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
Page 88 - My beloved! and the words grace ! regeneration! sanctification! a new light! the day! the day! ay, my beloved, the day! or rather the night! the night is coming!
Page 221 - ... how exquisite a pleasure there is in being really beloved ! It is impossible that the most beauteous face in nature should raise in me such pleasing ideas as when I look upon that excellent woman. That fading in her countenance is chiefly caused by her watching with me in my fever. This was followed by a fit of sickness, which had like to have carried her off last winter.
Page 237 - He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' the centre and enjoy bright day : But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun ; Himself is his own dungeon.
Page 230 - Be my friend, and follow me ; I will lead you into the possession of pleasure, and out of the reach of pain, and remove you from all the noise and disquietude of business. The affairs of either war or peace shall have no power to disturb you.
Page 267 - It filled the whole company with a deep melancholy to compare the description of the letter with the person that occasioned it, who was now reduced to a few crumbling bones and a little mouldering heap of earth. With much ado I deciphered another letter, which began with,
Page 87 - I will engage, were a deaf man to behold the greater part of them preach, he would rather think they were reading the contents only of some discourse they intended to make, than actually in the body of an oration, even when they are upon matters of such a nature, as one would believe it were impossible to think of without emotion.
Page 154 - ... and centaurs, with many other emblematical figures, which I wanted both time and skill to unriddle. The first table was almost full : at the upper end sat Hercules leaning an arm upon his...
Page 223 - George for being the champion of England' ; and by this means had his thoughts insensibly moulded into the notions of discretion, virtue, and honour. I was extolling his accomplishments, when the mother told me, ' that the little girl who led me in this morning was in her way a better scholar than he. Betty...