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Page 89
... Esquire . Will's Coffee - house , May 3 . P. A KINSMAN has sent me a letter , wherein he in- forms me , he had lately resolved to write an heroic poem , but by business has been interrupted , and has only made one similitude , which he ...
... Esquire . Will's Coffee - house , May 3 . P. A KINSMAN has sent me a letter , wherein he in- forms me , he had lately resolved to write an heroic poem , but by business has been interrupted , and has only made one similitude , which he ...
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... Esquire , was nobody : to set the world right in that particular , I shall give you my genealogy , as a kinsman of ours has sent it me from the Heralds Office . It is certain , and ob- served by the wisest writers , that there are women ...
... Esquire , was nobody : to set the world right in that particular , I shall give you my genealogy , as a kinsman of ours has sent it me from the Heralds Office . It is certain , and ob- served by the wisest writers , that there are women ...
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... Esquire is the most notoriously abused in this kind , of any class amongst men ; insomuch , that it is become almost the subject of derision : but I will be bold to say , this behaviour towards it proceeds from the ignorance of the ...
... Esquire is the most notoriously abused in this kind , of any class amongst men ; insomuch , that it is become almost the subject of derision : but I will be bold to say , this behaviour towards it proceeds from the ignorance of the ...
Page 148
... Esquire , and was always fit for any offices about him ; was as gentle and chaste as a gentleman - usher , quick and active as an equerry , smooth and eloquent as the master of the ceremonies . A man thus qualified was the first , as ...
... Esquire , and was always fit for any offices about him ; was as gentle and chaste as a gentleman - usher , quick and active as an equerry , smooth and eloquent as the master of the ceremonies . A man thus qualified was the first , as ...
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... Esquire of Norfolk eats two pounds of dumplin every meal , as if obliged to it by our order : an Esquire of Hampshire is as ravenous in devouring hogs flesh : one of Essex has as little mercy on calves . But I must take the liberty to ...
... Esquire of Norfolk eats two pounds of dumplin every meal , as if obliged to it by our order : an Esquire of Hampshire is as ravenous in devouring hogs flesh : one of Essex has as little mercy on calves . But I must take the liberty to ...
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ADDISON advices affairs appear April April 18 army arrived called character Court desire discourse dream dress Duke of Anjou Duke of Marlborough enemy entertainment Esquire excellent eyes farrago libelli favour France French gentleman Ghent give Hague honour hope humour instant ISAAC BICKERSTAFF James's Coffee-house June King King of Denmark lady late letter live Lord Madam Majesty manner marshal Villars MARY ASTELL Minister Monsieur motley paper seizes N. S. say nature never obliged observed occasion Olivenza Pacolet passion peace persons play pleasure present pretend Pretty Fellow Prince Eugene Quicquid agunt bomines racter Rake received RICHARD STEELE Rouille ſeizes sense sent shew spirit STEELE taken TATLER theme things thought tion Torcy Tournay town treaty troops wherein White's Chocolate-house whole Will's Coffee-house writ write
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Page 210 - ... 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 which one must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Page 210 - 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.
Page 6 - All accounts of gallantry, pleasure, and entertainment, shall be under the article of White's Chocolate-house ; poetry, under that of Will's Coffee-house ; learning, under the title of Grecian ; foreign and domestic news, you will have from St. James's Coffee-house ; and what else I shall on any other subject offer, shall be dated from my own apartment.
Page 210 - 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; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end both at the first, and now, was and is, to hold, as '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.
Page xi - 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...
Page 7 - Dryden frequented it ; where you used to see songs, epigrams, and satires, in the hands of every man you met, you have now only a pack of cards ; and instead of the cavils about the turn of the expression, the elegance of the style, and the like, the learned now dispute only about the truth of the game.
Page 210 - 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.
Page 211 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 113 - Buckley * has shed as much blood as the former ; but I cannot forbear saying (and I hope it will not look like envy) that we regard our brother Buckley as a kind of Drawcansir, who spares neither friend nor foe ; but generally kills as many of his own side as the enemy's.
Page 196 - Madonella, a lady who had writ a fine book concerning the recluse life, and was the projectrix of the foundation She approaches into the hall ; and Rake, knowing the dignity of his own mien and aspect, goes deputy from his company. She begins, "Sir, I am obliged to follow the servant, who was sent out to know what affair could make strangers press upon a solitude which we, who are to inhabit this place, have devoted to heaven and our own thoughts ?"