The Tatler, Volume 1C. Whittingham, published by John Sharpe, 1804 - English essays |
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... King William III . to whom he refused to take the oaths . Here Mr. Maynwaring prose- cuted his studies in polite literature with great vigour ; and upon his coming up to London applied to the study of the law . He was hitherto very ...
... King William III . to whom he refused to take the oaths . Here Mr. Maynwaring prose- cuted his studies in polite literature with great vigour ; and upon his coming up to London applied to the study of the law . He was hitherto very ...
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... king William had their lucky days ; and Shaftesbury himself , though he had no re- ligion , is said to have regarded predictions . 10 Mrs. Barry spoke an epilogue on the occasion written by Rowe . the curtain was drawn , it discovered ...
... king William had their lucky days ; and Shaftesbury himself , though he had no re- ligion , is said to have regarded predictions . 10 Mrs. Barry spoke an epilogue on the occasion written by Rowe . the curtain was drawn , it discovered ...
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... King Charles the first ) bound him ap- prentice to a bookseller , but nature had formed him for the stage , and he made his first appearance on it in 1656 , at the opera - house in Charter - house - yard , under the direc- tion of Sir ...
... King Charles the first ) bound him ap- prentice to a bookseller , but nature had formed him for the stage , and he made his first appearance on it in 1656 , at the opera - house in Charter - house - yard , under the direc- tion of Sir ...
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... king of Prussia and king Augustus to enter into a new alliance ; but that the ministers of Prussia are not inclined to his sen- timents . We hear from Vienna , that his imperial ma- jesty has expressed great satisfaction in their high ...
... king of Prussia and king Augustus to enter into a new alliance ; but that the ministers of Prussia are not inclined to his sen- timents . We hear from Vienna , that his imperial ma- jesty has expressed great satisfaction in their high ...
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... king has been past his sixty - third year , or grand climacteric , there has not died one man of the French nation , who was younger than his majesty , except a very few , who were taken suddenly near the village of Hockstet in Germany ...
... king has been past his sixty - third year , or grand climacteric , there has not died one man of the French nation , who was younger than his majesty , except a very few , who were taken suddenly near the village of Hockstet in Germany ...
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Page 264 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of , Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 264 - 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 263 - ... 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.
Page 323 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia...
Page 263 - 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...
Page 263 - 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 263 - 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 238 - In loving thou dost well, in passion "not, Wherein true love consists not: love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges : hath his seat In reason, and is judicious; is the scale By which to heav'nly love thou may'st ascend, Not sunk in carnal pleasure ; for which cause Among the beasts no mate for thee was found.
Page 3 - I cannot keep an ingenious man to go daily to Will's under twopence each day, merely for his charges; to White's under sixpence; nor to the Grecian, without allowing him some plain Spanish, to be as able as others at the learned table; and that a good observer cannot speak with even Kidney at St.
Page 6 - 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.