The Tatler, Volumen1C. Whittingham, published by John Sharpe, 1804 |
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... shew his ignorance , by drawing a vicious one to please the present audience . Mrs. Bignel did her part very happily , and had a certain grace in her rusticity , which gave us hopes of seeing her a very skilful player , and in some ...
... shew his ignorance , by drawing a vicious one to please the present audience . Mrs. Bignel did her part very happily , and had a certain grace in her rusticity , which gave us hopes of seeing her a very skilful player , and in some ...
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... shew how great an hero the poet intends , he provides him a very good horse : • Champing his foam , and bounding on the plain , Arch his high neck , and graceful spread his mane . ' Now as to the intrepidity , the calm courage , the ...
... shew how great an hero the poet intends , he provides him a very good horse : • Champing his foam , and bounding on the plain , Arch his high neck , and graceful spread his mane . ' Now as to the intrepidity , the calm courage , the ...
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... shew me a treatise he had writ , which he called , The whole Art of Life ; or , The In- troduction to great Men , illustrated in a Pack of Cards . But , being a novice at all manner of play , I declined the offer . Another advised me ...
... shew me a treatise he had writ , which he called , The whole Art of Life ; or , The In- troduction to great Men , illustrated in a Pack of Cards . But , being a novice at all manner of play , I declined the offer . Another advised me ...
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... shews she is conscious of , but not affected with , her perfections . Clarissa is a shepherdess , Chloe a country girl . I must own , the design of Chloe's picture shows , to me , great mastery in the painter ; for nothing could be ...
... shews she is conscious of , but not affected with , her perfections . Clarissa is a shepherdess , Chloe a country girl . I must own , the design of Chloe's picture shows , to me , great mastery in the painter ; for nothing could be ...
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... shews it was written by one whose virtue sits easy about him , and to whom vice is thoroughly contemptible . It was said by one of this company , alluding to that knowledge of the world the author seems to have , The man writes much ...
... shews it was written by one whose virtue sits easy about him , and to whom vice is thoroughly contemptible . It was said by one of this company , alluding to that knowledge of the world the author seems to have , The man writes much ...
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Página 264 - ... 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 264 - 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 263 - ... 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 323 - 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 263 - 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. 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...
Página 263 - 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 263 - 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 238 - In loving thou dost well, in passion "not, Wherein true love consists not: love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges : hath his seat In reason, and is judicious; is the scale By which to heav'nly love thou may'st ascend, Not sunk in carnal pleasure ; for which cause Among the beasts no mate for thee was found.
Página 3 - I cannot keep an ingenious man to go daily to Will's under twopence each day, merely for his charges; to White's under sixpence; nor to the Grecian, without allowing him some plain Spanish, to be as able as others at the learned table; and that a good observer cannot speak with even Kidney at St.
Página 6 - 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.