The Tatler: Selected EssaysF. Warne, 1888 - 478 páginas |
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... of soldiering he quitted the army shortly after obtaining his company , and led an irregular , roystering life about town , writing comedies which were not particularly successful , writing poems and articles INTRODUCTORY ESSAY . 11.
... of soldiering he quitted the army shortly after obtaining his company , and led an irregular , roystering life about town , writing comedies which were not particularly successful , writing poems and articles INTRODUCTORY ESSAY . 11.
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... town that they were a parcel of fops , fools , and coquettes ; but in such a manner as even pleased them , and made them more than half inclined to believe that he spoke truth . Instead of complying with the false sentiments or vicious ...
... town that they were a parcel of fops , fools , and coquettes ; but in such a manner as even pleased them , and made them more than half inclined to believe that he spoke truth . Instead of complying with the false sentiments or vicious ...
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... town as it was to the squire in his manor house or the parson in his vicarage . A new feature in the literature of the day , it received without stint the patronage of the powerful and the affluent . It was all that the novel and the ...
... town as it was to the squire in his manor house or the parson in his vicarage . A new feature in the literature of the day , it received without stint the patronage of the powerful and the affluent . It was all that the novel and the ...
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... town on account of the heavy losses they had sustained . " Oh the damned vice ! " cries Steele , " that women can imagine all household care , regard to posterity and fear of poverty must be sacrificed to a game at cards . " When her ...
... town on account of the heavy losses they had sustained . " Oh the damned vice ! " cries Steele , " that women can imagine all household care , regard to posterity and fear of poverty must be sacrificed to a game at cards . " When her ...
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... town , or punted with the best of company at the gaming - house of the Groom Porter - an official specially appointed to preside over gambling , and regulate its conditions . The Groom Porter's was a favourite haunt of the cold and ...
... town , or punted with the best of company at the gaming - house of the Groom Porter - an official specially appointed to preside over gambling , and regulate its conditions . The Groom Porter's was a favourite haunt of the cold and ...
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Página 149 - Fables: but he frankly declared to me his mind, that "he did not delight in that learning, because he did not believe they were true...
Página 114 - Here love his golden shafts employs, here lights His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels...
Página 419 - Being now of great credit and antiquity, I was rather looked upon as a medal than an ordinary coin : for which reason a gamester laid hold of me, and converted me to a counter, having got together some dozens of us for that use. We led a melancholy life in his possession, being busy at those hours wherein current coin, is at rest, and partaking the fate of our master; being in a few moments valued at a crown, a pound, or a sixpence, according to the situation in which the fortune of the cards placed...
Página 148 - This put us into a long field of discourse about the beauties, who were mothers to the present, and shined in the boxes twenty years ago. I told her, " I was glad she had transferred so many of her charms, and I did not question but her eldest daughter was within half a year of being a toast...
Página 382 - That from their noyance he no where can rest, But with his clownish hands their tender wings He brusheth oft, and oft doth mar their murmurings.
Página 397 - Flavia the least and slightest toy, Can with resistless art employ. This fan in meaner hands would prove An engine of small force in love ; But she with such an air and mien, Not to be told, or safely seen, Directs its wanton motions so, That it wounds more than Cupid's bow : Gives coolness to the matchless dame, To every other breast a flame.
Página 468 - Besides my innumerable sins, I confess before thee, that I am debtor to thee for the gracious talent of thy gifts and graces, which I have neither put into a napkin, nor put it, as I ought, to exchangers, where it might have made best profit, but mispent it in things for which I was least fit : so I may truly say, my soul hath been a stranger in the course of my pilgrimage. Be merciful unto me, O Lord, for my Saviour's sake, and receive me into thy bosom, or guide me in thy ways.
Página 118 - Homer, stood up at his entrance, and placed him on his right hand. The virgin, who it seems was one of the nine sisters that attended on the Goddess of Fame, smiled with an ineffable grace at their meeting and retired.
Página 226 - ... passed almost a sixth part of my time for these last forty years. Our club consisted originally of fifteen; but, partly by the severity of the law in arbitrary times, and partly by the natural effects of old age, we are at present reduced to a third part of that number; in which, however, we have this consolation, that the best company is said to consist of five persons.
Página 90 - His person, it is to be confessed, is no small recommendation ; but he is to be highly commended for not losing that advantage, and adding to the propriety of speech, which might pass the criticism of Longinus, an action which would have been approved by Demosthenes. He has a peculiar force in his way, and has many of his audience...