The British Essayists, Том 1Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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... dress , language , or sentiment , collected their knowledge on their travels , and were not ashamed of being conquered by the follies of a nation whose arms they despised . About the time we now treat of , foreign fopperies , ignorance ...
... dress , language , or sentiment , collected their knowledge on their travels , and were not ashamed of being conquered by the follies of a nation whose arms they despised . About the time we now treat of , foreign fopperies , ignorance ...
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... dress , sometimes reasonable and sometimes capricious ; to the intermixture of the sexes in all companies ; and to the operation of wealth , whether acquired by labour or inhe- ritance , on minds of strong or weak texture . All these ...
... dress , sometimes reasonable and sometimes capricious ; to the intermixture of the sexes in all companies ; and to the operation of wealth , whether acquired by labour or inhe- ritance , on minds of strong or weak texture . All these ...
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... dress , furniture , equipage , and the luxuries of the table ; sub- jects which do not court privacy , but obtrude themselves with proud ostentation , and are therefore among the fairest game of the lite- rary sportsman . At the ...
... dress , furniture , equipage , and the luxuries of the table ; sub- jects which do not court privacy , but obtrude themselves with proud ostentation , and are therefore among the fairest game of the lite- rary sportsman . At the ...
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... dress and discourse , in every various light ; and laid the foundation for a change in the public mind , which has contri- buted beyond all calculation to the refinement of society . It has already been noticed that he is not to be ...
... dress and discourse , in every various light ; and laid the foundation for a change in the public mind , which has contri- buted beyond all calculation to the refinement of society . It has already been noticed that he is not to be ...
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... dress and fashion for the gay , and just satire for the pretenders and insipid . If the avaricious wants gold , here it is . If any man wants to buy or sell a wife , here he may find his trader . Is any one jea- lous ? -let him or her ...
... dress and fashion for the gay , and just satire for the pretenders and insipid . If the avaricious wants gold , here it is . If any man wants to buy or sell a wife , here he may find his trader . Is any one jea- lous ? -let him or her ...
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Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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...