The British Essayists, Bind 1Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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Side xxxvi
... excellent papers of the lighter sort . But upon the whole we must allow with Dr. JOHNSON that , with respect to a great proportion of the fashionable world , the fatal passion for cards and dice seems to have overturned , not only the ...
... excellent papers of the lighter sort . But upon the whole we must allow with Dr. JOHNSON that , with respect to a great proportion of the fashionable world , the fatal passion for cards and dice seems to have overturned , not only the ...
Side li
... excellent Life of Defoe thinks that the plan of the Tatler may have been suggested by Defoe's REVIEW , consisting of a Scandal Club , on Questions of Theology , Morals , Politics , Trade , Language , Poetry , & c . ' published about the ...
... excellent Life of Defoe thinks that the plan of the Tatler may have been suggested by Defoe's REVIEW , consisting of a Scandal Club , on Questions of Theology , Morals , Politics , Trade , Language , Poetry , & c . ' published about the ...
Side lxxiv
... excellent paper on gluttony , No. 205 , is ascribed by STEELE , in the Theatre , No. 26 , ' to a Mr. FULLER , with this encomium : The mind usually exerts itself in all its fa- culties , with an equal pace towards matu- rity and this ...
... excellent paper on gluttony , No. 205 , is ascribed by STEELE , in the Theatre , No. 26 , ' to a Mr. FULLER , with this encomium : The mind usually exerts itself in all its fa- culties , with an equal pace towards matu- rity and this ...
Side 3
... excellent pieces with which you are usually conver . sant . The images which you will meet with here , will be very faint , after the perusal of the Greeks and Romans , who are your ordinary companions . I must confess I am obliged to ...
... excellent pieces with which you are usually conver . sant . The images which you will meet with here , will be very faint , after the perusal of the Greeks and Romans , who are your ordinary companions . I must confess I am obliged to ...
Side 15
... excellent players , Mrs. Barry , Mrs. Bracegirdle , and Mr. Dogget , though not at present concerned in the house , acted on that oc- casion . There has not been known so great a con- course of persons of distinction as at that time ...
... excellent players , Mrs. Barry , Mrs. Bracegirdle , and Mr. Dogget , though not at present concerned in the house , acted on that oc- casion . There has not been known so great a con- course of persons of distinction as at that time ...
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Side 258 - 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...
Side v - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven to inhabit among Men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses.
Side 258 - 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...
Side vi - 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...
Side 258 - 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.
Side 258 - And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them; for there be of them thatU will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity.
Side 93 - The ships unmoved the boist'rous winds defy, While rattling chariots o'er the ocean fly. The vast leviathan wants room to play, And spout his waters in the face of day; The starving wolves along the main sea prowl, And to the moon in icy valleys howl. For many a shining league the level main Here spreads itself into a glassy plain; There solid billows of enormous size, Alps of green ice, in wild disorder rise.
Side 258 - ... 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.
Side lxxiii - The general Purpose of the whole has been to recommend Truth, Innocence, Honour, and Virtue, as the chief Ornaments of Life; but I considered, that Severity of Manners was absolutely necessary to him who would censure others, and for that Reason, and that only, chose to talk in a Mask.
Side 258 - 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. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus...