The British Essayists, 1. kötetAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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lxxiv. oldal
... arrive at this superior strength of mind at four and twenty . Of this young writer , and of his other pieces , I have not been able to obtain any account . I hazard a conjecture that he might be THOMAS FUL- LER , M. D. a physician , who ...
... arrive at this superior strength of mind at four and twenty . Of this young writer , and of his other pieces , I have not been able to obtain any account . I hazard a conjecture that he might be THOMAS FUL- LER , M. D. a physician , who ...
2. oldal
... arrive at . By this good fortune the name of Isaac Bicker- staff gained an audience of all who had any taste of wit ; and the addition of the ordinary occurrences of common Journals of News brought in a multitude of other readers . I ...
... arrive at . By this good fortune the name of Isaac Bicker- staff gained an audience of all who had any taste of wit ; and the addition of the ordinary occurrences of common Journals of News brought in a multitude of other readers . I ...
30. oldal
... arrived at Genoa , where he has taken much pains to keep the correspondents of the merchants of France in hopes that measures will be found out to support the credit and commerce between that state and Lyons ; but the late decla- ration ...
... arrived at Genoa , where he has taken much pains to keep the correspondents of the merchants of France in hopes that measures will be found out to support the credit and commerce between that state and Lyons ; but the late decla- ration ...
36. oldal
... arrived at the Hague on the twentieth instant , with advice , that the enemy having made a detachment from Tournay , of fifteen hundred horse , each trooper carrying a foot soldier behind him , in order to surprise the garrison of Alost ...
... arrived at the Hague on the twentieth instant , with advice , that the enemy having made a detachment from Tournay , of fifteen hundred horse , each trooper carrying a foot soldier behind him , in order to surprise the garrison of Alost ...
42. oldal
... arrived from the Court of Madrid , wherein his Nuncio acquainted him , that , upon the news of his accommodation with the Em- peror , he had received a message to forbear coming to Court , and the people were so highly provoked , that ...
... arrived from the Court of Madrid , wherein his Nuncio acquainted him , that , upon the news of his accommodation with the Em- peror , he had received a message to forbear coming to Court , and the people were so highly provoked , that ...
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258. oldal - 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...
v. oldal - 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.
258. oldal - 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...
vi. oldal - 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...
258. oldal - 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.
258. oldal - 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.
93. oldal - 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.
258. oldal - ... 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.
lxxiii. oldal - 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.
258. oldal - 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...