The British Essayists: The TatlerLittle, Brown, 1866 |
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... mean cares of an usurer are turned into the languishments and complaints of a lover . “ Behold , ” says the aged Æsculapius , “ I submit ; I own , great Love , thy empire : pity , Hebe , the fop you have made . What have I to do with ...
... mean cares of an usurer are turned into the languishments and complaints of a lover . “ Behold , ” says the aged Æsculapius , “ I submit ; I own , great Love , thy empire : pity , Hebe , the fop you have made . What have I to do with ...
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... mean is not expressed in the book itself , supply it by a preface ; but a postscript seems to me the more just way apology ; because otherwise a man makes an excuse before the offence is committed . All the heroic poets were guessed at ...
... mean is not expressed in the book itself , supply it by a preface ; but a postscript seems to me the more just way apology ; because otherwise a man makes an excuse before the offence is committed . All the heroic poets were guessed at ...
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... mean for panegyric into scandal , let it be answered once for all , that if our praises are really designed as raillery , such malevolent persons owe their safety from it , only to their being too inconsiderable for history . It is not ...
... mean for panegyric into scandal , let it be answered once for all , that if our praises are really designed as raillery , such malevolent persons owe their safety from it , only to their being too inconsiderable for history . It is not ...
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... mean ; Phillis's insolence , sprightly . Were you to see him at his own home , and his mistress's lodgings ; to Phillis he appears an obsequious lover , to Laura an imperious master . Nay , so unjust is the taste of Duumvir , that he ...
... mean ; Phillis's insolence , sprightly . Were you to see him at his own home , and his mistress's lodgings ; to Phillis he appears an obsequious lover , to Laura an imperious master . Nay , so unjust is the taste of Duumvir , that he ...
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... mean time it is melancholy to consider , that the virtue of a wife is like the merit of a poet , never justly valued till after death . FROM MY OWN APARTMENT , AUGUST 11 . As we have professed that all the actions of men are our subject ...
... mean time it is melancholy to consider , that the virtue of a wife is like the merit of a poet , never justly valued till after death . FROM MY OWN APARTMENT , AUGUST 11 . As we have professed that all the actions of men are our subject ...
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acquaintance action Æneid Æsculapius Æsop agreeable APARTMENT appeared army AUGUST AUGUST 26 Bavius beauty behaviour called charms Cleora countenance dæmon dead Demosthenes desire discourse Duke Duumvir enemy ESQUIRE eyes fame farrago libelli favour following letter fortune gentleman give Greenhat happy heard heart hero honour humble servant humour ISAAC BICKERSTAFF JAMES'S COFFEE-HOUSE Julius Cæsar lady lately laugh learned live look lover mankind manner marriage merit mind mistress motley paper seizes nature neral never noble NOVEMBER 11 observed occasion OCTOBER OCTOBER 12 OCTOBER 31 Pacolet panegyric passion persons pleased pleasure present pretend prince proper Quicquid agunt homines racter reason received seemed sense SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER 16 speak Stentor Tatler tell thing thought tion told town unhappy virtue WHITE'S CHOCOLATE-HOUSE whole wife WILL'S COFFEE-HOUSE woman word writ write young