The Tatler, Volume 2F.C. and J. Rivington, 1822 |
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... honour this evening to visit some ladies , where the subject of the conversation was Modesty ; which they commended as a quality quite as becom- ing in men as in women . I took the liberty to say , ' it might be as beautiful in our ...
... honour this evening to visit some ladies , where the subject of the conversation was Modesty ; which they commended as a quality quite as becom- ing in men as in women . I took the liberty to say , ' it might be as beautiful in our ...
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... honour , would have been the most insipid animal breathing . The other day Laura , who has a voice like an angel , began to sing to him ; Fie , madam , ' he cried , we must be past all these gaieties . ' Phillis has a note as rude and ...
... honour , would have been the most insipid animal breathing . The other day Laura , who has a voice like an angel , began to sing to him ; Fie , madam , ' he cried , we must be past all these gaieties . ' Phillis has a note as rude and ...
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... honour so indisputably as theirs . You may lose your honour to them , but they lay none against you : as the priesthood in Roman ca- tholic countries can purchase what they please for the church , but they can alienate nothing from it ...
... honour so indisputably as theirs . You may lose your honour to them , but they lay none against you : as the priesthood in Roman ca- tholic countries can purchase what they please for the church , but they can alienate nothing from it ...
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... honour , as he had no particular connection , nor any personal ac- quaintance with the Hero of his story . Though relative to a superior officer , and of a posterior date , it is still in the nature of the facts here requested . If it ...
... honour , as he had no particular connection , nor any personal ac- quaintance with the Hero of his story . Though relative to a superior officer , and of a posterior date , it is still in the nature of the facts here requested . If it ...
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... honour to drink half a pint with sir Tristram , Harry Coppersmith , and Giles Twoshoes . These wags give one another credit in discourse , according to their purses ; they jest by the pound , and make answers as they honour bills ...
... honour to drink half a pint with sir Tristram , Harry Coppersmith , and Giles Twoshoes . These wags give one another credit in discourse , according to their purses ; they jest by the pound , and make answers as they honour bills ...
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Page 469 - ... With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of Heaven her starry train : But neither breath of Morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds ; nor rising sun On this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew ; nor fragrance, after showers ; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent Night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet.
Page 373 - And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
Page 421 - So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Page 449 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 399 - 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.
Page 354 - We were pleasing ourselves with this fantastical preferment of the young lady, when on a sudden we were alarmed with the noise of a drum, and immediately entered my little godson, to give me a point of war. His mother, between laughing and chiding, would have put him out of the room; but I would not part with him so. I found, upon conversation with him, though he was a little noisy in his mirth, that the child had excellent parts, and was a great master of all the learning on the other side eight...
Page 239 - Hail, wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise, of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range : by thee Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities . Of father, son, and brother, first were known.
Page 323 - Give me another horse! bind up my wounds! Have mercy, Jesu! Soft! I did but dream. O! coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me. The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight. Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh. What! do I fear myself? there's none else by Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I.
Page 354 - Fables: but he frankly declared to me his mind, that "he did not delight in that learning, because he did not believe they were true...
Page 399 - ... -Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do, or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; wisdom, in discourse with her, Loses, discounter! an c'd, and like folly shows.